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es of national and regional public events designed to build confidence in ireland s digital skills for learning jim was previously the director of teaching learning technologies and adjunct professor at the university of mary washington usa and is the co founder of reclaim hosting he is a co developer of the domain of one s own dooo initiative jim s recent post next generation digital learning environments gives a good idea of his work and his thinking he is also excited to be visiting ireland for the first time in the student as partner producer assessor workshop on april 3rd we will explore participatory pedagogies a partnership approach to teaching and learning and agentic authentic assessment in addition jim will guide participants in creating their own domains and discussing how dooo can be used in learning teaching and assessment all are welcome to join the workshop eilis o regan programme coordinator at nui galway and newcomer to blogging recently shared her thoughts about the workshop in a nod to the woolf i feel like the educational stars have aligned i m so excited about attending this workshop there are just a few places still available please sign up if you d like to attend no workshop fee and lunch will be provided we d love to see you here in galway student as partner producer assessor exploring domain of one s own related reading a brief history of domain of one s own part 1 and part 2 by jesse stommel jess reingold making and breaking domain of one s own rethinking the web in higher ed by martha burtis becoming literate digitally in a digitally literate environment of their own by iain o byrne and kristine pytash march 2017 journal of adolescent adult literacy 60 5 image cc by sa burren fossil by catherinecronin 7 comments march 22 2017 oep and open pedagogy oeglobal reflections i recently returned from 10 days in cape town participating in the open education global conference and go gn seminar and working with fellow open education researchers at the centre for innovation in learning teaching at uct all were deeply enriching experiences both personally and professionally in a place i ve come to love after two visits in the past year for those who may not know go gn is a global network of phd students working in open education the annual 2 5 day go gn seminar immediately precedes the oe global conference but this event is just part of a broader programme and network of mutual support chrissi nerantzi and martin weller have written wonderful blog posts about the go gn cape town experience already mine will follow this post is a summary of some my reflections following the 3 day oe global conference particularly with respect to oep and open pedagogy oe global conference cape town this was my first time attending oeglobal after several years following online and it was deeply worthwhile for the scholarship friendship and inspiration the oe global programme with links to most presentations is well worth exploring as are the oeglobal tweets educators and researchers from 47 countries across 6 continents participated in the conference the range and quality of work was stunning a standout was the roer4d project comprising 18 evidence based oer research studies across the global south with the aim of improving educational policy practice and research in developing countries there were conference presentations by many of the 18 roer4d studies as well as a report on the project meta synthesis by cheryl hodgkinson williams adoption and impact of oep and oer in the global south roer4d researchers at oe global another standout for me was the discussion of work being done by many in the us community college sector to boost college access and completion for underserved and at risk students through the creation of oer based or z degrees these efforts and the oer degree initiative were discussed in the oer degrees panel a foundational theme of much of the work shared at oe global was social justice many presentations foregrounded social justice as a core value of our work in open education this began with the opening keynote by narend baijnath continued with the day two keynote by patricia arinto and was highlighted in numerous presentations e g by oepscotland preston davis jamison miller and myself links are to relevant slides presentations engaging in these conversations in south africa following the recent feesmustfall protests provided a powerful opportunity for each of us to consider our work in the context of calls for free and decolonised education at the conference laura czerniewicz summarised three aspects of decolonising higher education recognising how power relations are enacted and instantiated in curricula and policies foregrounding african global south content and contexts and promoting and engaging in dialogue between different epistemic traditions global south global north see also sukaina walji s recent post a role for open education in the feesmustfall movement in south african higher education as always after such a rich feast of ideas there are far too many strands to explore fully however one is closely related to my phd research in open educational practices there was much discussion at the conference about both oep and open pedagogy how do these concepts relate to one another they overlap but how exactly there is a great deal of work going on in both oep and openped at the moment so how might we productively join some of these conversations oep and open pedagogy for some time now i ve been paying attention not just to the nature of the work being done by many in the global open education community but also to differences in emphasis across different sectors and regions for example much foundational work in open textbooks is rooted in and continues in north america e g bccampus open textbook project and z degree programmes more recently a flourishing movement has emerged around open pedagogy check out openped led by innovative educators such as robin derosa karen cangialosi scott robison rajiv jhangiani david wiley and others in the uk and to a certain extent here in ireland there is much work discussion re oer less emphasis though increasing on open textbooks and a deep and growing engagement with oep and critical approaches to openness these emphases will feature prominently in the upcoming oer conference oer17 the politics of open april 5 6 as they already do in projects and networks such as the open education research hub who also support go gn alt s open education sig open scotland oepscotland and uk oer the ukoer project officially ended in 2012 but the community continues via ukoer and ukoer thanks to dkernohan with its truly global scope oe global provided an opportunity to learn from and about a diverse range of research and researchers i attended as many oep and open pedagogy sessions as was possible and spoke with many many wonderful open scholars following the conference as part of my own research i searched the conference programme and oeglobal tweets for terms related to oep and open pedagogy despite these efforts it s likely i have omitted something important apologies in advance and please do add a comment to this post if you wish to add some missing work or a different interpretation our work can only improve with multiple perspectives oep and open pedagogy presentations at oe global the global scope of oep work was very clear at the conference research explicitly mentioning oep was shared by researchers from 11 different projects studies based in south africa tanzania uganda sri lanka mauritius tasmania brazil canada scotland and ireland a further 3 presentations focused specifically on open pedagogy from projects based in south africa the us and the netherlands making moocs and changing oep by laura czerniewicz andrew deacon sukaina walji michael glover university of cape town development of the oep impact evaluation index by som naidu shironica karunanayaka roer4d the open university sri lanka conceptualising oep in teacher education in east africa by freda wolfendon roer4d study in mauritius tanzania uganda towards ethical oep in times of disruptions by daniela gachago eunice ivala cheryl belford xena cupido hillary hartle suzaan le roux candice livingston janine lockhart andre steenkamp bronwyn swartz cape peninsula university of technology cput papert s constructionism a felicitous partner of oep by linda van ryneveld university of pretoria exploring oep of first year students at a south african university by tabisa mayisela university of cape town southern hemisphere oep a comparative analysis between australia and brazil by carina bossu university of tasmania marineli meier federal university of parana the role of educational developers in supporting oep by michael paskevicius vivan forssman royal roads university opening practice on participatory course production and oep in scotland case studies courses by anna page pete cannell ronald macintyre the open university scotland openness and praxis exploring the use of oep in higher education by catherine cronin national university of ireland galway a narrative of open pedagogy using oer by cheryl belford cape peninsula university of technology cput current oer research from the oer research fellows including thoughts on open pedagogy by john hilton iii brigham young university connecting oer to teachers using open pedagogy by martijn ouwehand delft university of technology robert schuwer fontys university of applied sciences many of the oep studies referenced earlier foundational work in open educational practices these key papers can be considered in three main groups i work emerging from cilt centre for innovation in learning teaching university of cape town focusing on 5 dimensions of openness technical legal cultural pedagogical financial hodgkinson williams c gray e 2009 degrees of openness the emergence of oer at the university of cape town hodgkinson williams c 2014 degrees of ease adoption of oer open textbooks and moocs in the global south ii work arising from the open education quality opal initiative 2010 11 espousing a definition of oep linked closely to open pedagogy collaborative practice in which resources are shared by making them openly available and pedagogical practices are employed which rely on social interaction knowledge creation peer learning and shared learning practices ehlers u d 2011 extending the territory from oer to oep conole g ehlers u d 2010 oep unleashing the power of oer iii work arising from the uk oer programme 2009 2012 using an expansive definition of oep including the creation use and reuse of oer as well as open pedagogies open learning open access publishing and use of open technologies beetham h falconer i mcgill l littlejohn a 2012 open practices briefing paper in addition 2 of the 3 open pedagogy presentations and some oep presentations e g gachago et al referenced the 8 attributes of open pedagogy model hegarty b 2015 attributes of open pedagogy a model for using oer cc summary the above gives an indication of the scope and nature of research shared at the oe global conference in the areas of oep and open pedagogy while it might seem from the summary here that open pedagogy was a minor strand of the conference the discussion of open pedagogy was not limited to the 3 sessions listed open pedagogy is of course a key element of oep together oep and open pedagogy comprised a main strand of discussion at the conference in the sessions in the panel discussions and in many informal conversations for those of us working in open education myself included the work shared at oe global provides a strong basis for discussion comparison and potential collaboration some important areas which i would like to explore further in my own research and in collaboration with others are these decentering northern epistemology with global research funding production and dissemination skewed so heavily toward the global north it may be easy for many in the north to fail to see global inequalities in knowledge production but see we must researchers in the global north have a collective responsibility to deepen our awareness of epistemic traditions beyond our own to challenge deeply held assumptions about knowledge and power to promote and engage in south north dialogue and collaboration and much more as noted by the roer4d project during the conference this is particularly important in open education the relationship between oer and oep open pedagogy a growing number of research studies across different contexts reveal an increasingly complex relationship between oer and oep open pedagogy in addition to oer opening the door to oep open pedagogy the reverse may also be the case this has emerged in my research in irish higher education and in research studies by czerniewicz et al in south african higher education and penny bentley in australian secondary education i believe these findings are important and may be part of an inflection point in open education what is emerging in other contexts defining oep and open pedagogy one of the many benefits of attending oe global was the opportunity to discuss these challenging questions with many of the people whose work informs and inspires my own i know for example that david wiley defines open pedagogy very precisely as the set of teaching and learning practices that are only possible or practical in the context of the free access and 5r permissions characteristic of open educational resources my research focuses on how open educational practices emerge in contexts where open education oer policies do not exist david and i approach our work from different standpoints but seek to address similar questions at the conference david and i discussed this we both agreed that open pedagogy is a constituent of oep but the door is open for further discussion and work what else is useful and important in building definitions and frameworks of open pedagogy and oep this work continues as a postscript here are links to the work that i shared at the oe global conference openness and praxis exploring the use of oep in higher education paper post print irrodl in press presentation and links to all papers referenced in my presentation my sincere thanks to the wonderful oe global conference chair glenda cox the programme committee and conference organisers all of the conference presenters and participants and to my inspiring go gn colleagues thanks to you all for an amazing week in cape town the scholarship friendship music drumming and dancing unforgettable go gn cape town almost everyone cc go gn at work cc images all images cc by sa catherinecronin on flickr 7 comments march 3 2017 open conversations at oeglobal go_gn day 1 cape town flickr cc by catherinecronin i m currently in the final year of my phd research study journey adventure planning to submit my dissertation at the end of 2017 over the next two months however i ll be 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