Shaping Open Education
Navigating Change in the Best Interests of Learners
Joe Wilson #openscot
A view from a hard-nosed optimist.
Work in the Open
Why I’m bothered
Why I’m bothered
Esperanto
Esperanto didn’t fail because it was a bad idea—it failed because the real world is driven by power, culture, and history, not by linguistic efficiency or idealism.
Why This Matters
• Attainment and resource gaps persist !
• System is frustrating for all – What skills do we deliver ?
• Social mobility remains limited –We are not empowering people !
How do we shape open education to support all learners and educators ?
What started interest here
Experience as curriculum leader, senior manager in schools and colleges - poor resource sharing culture.
Experience as senior manager at SQA, SFC ,SFEU and CDN and working across Colleges , Employers , Universities and Training providers and Jisc
Bizarre procurements from Govt and associated agencies. The general School/College/HE divide is unsupportive of a sharing culture and does not support lifelong learning
VOCA = A world of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity - Tertiary ?
The Triple Challenge for people
• Attainment Gaps – Deep and systemic
• Skills Shortages – Rapid change in labour demands.
• Social Mobility – Uneven and unequal.
The Triple Challenge for institutions
Open Education: The Promise
Unesco and Open Educational Policy
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Repeated Themes in Govt Correspondence
What’s Holding Us Back
Teaching Staff: Agents of Change
AI: Friend or Foe?
Fears:
AI: Friend or Foe?
Opportunities:
The AI Cognitive Amplifier by Visual Thinkery
Much more than a Stochastic Parrot
AI with everything
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Current AI Platforms - that students used regularly
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Artificial Intelligence
Have you moved past policy yet ?
Do all staff and students have access to a short course showing them how to make most of Artificial Intelligence - that critically includes support and professional services staff.
Have you figured out best way to harvest and use your own information securely
Do you have a clear policy around academic standards and use of Artificial Intelligence
Have you reviewed your assessment methodology to minimise misuse of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
Have you moved past policy yet ?
Do you work regularly and consult with students.
Do you use relevant Jisc surveys to benchmark your staff and students digital skills
Are you exploring relevant tools like ‘Teachermatic’ which could accelerate adoption and interest.
How about new Co-Pilot Agents here is example of teacher one
What challenges are you facing and how are you coping with range of ethical challenges that AI presents
There is a whole workshop in this topic alone -
Pragmatic Partnerships
Vision: A People-Driven System
Imagine:
Overcoming Inertia: Levers for Change
Back Channel Padlet
Opportunities
Learning Design �with the ABC Framework
September 2024
Kenji Lamb, Delivery & Engagement Partner, College Development Network (CDN)
Colin Milligan, Senior Research Fellow (Glasgow Caledonian University)
Susi Peacock, Quality Enhancement Specialist (QAA Scotland)
Joe Wilson, Learning & Development Consultant
Active,
Blended,
Connected
Learning Design - for all
Where are you in redesigning the learning experience ?
How visible are your processes ?
Diana Laurillard, London’s Institute of Education,
‘the shift to new learning requires a complete overhaul of traditional education.
New standards for Lecturers and CPD Framework PDR
What might it look like
It is not about the tech but
how
it maps to changing your
approach to learning and
teaching - underpinned
by the technology
COGC developed
Google Sites !!!
Where are your learning design challenges ?
It could be lack of coherent policy on blended learning ?
An unstable or confusing delivery platform ?
Staff time and or resistance to embrace learning design?
We solved this by working in partnership -
EQF / SCQF / Microcredentials
Why it matters and what is holding you back ?
We are all unique - but we all have learners who need qualifications that sit within EQF
Colleges have - SQA providing academic pathways underpinned by national occupational standards.
All we do is built on foundations laid by SQA and all on the SCQF mapped to the EQF Job adverts with SCQF levels !
Colleges have had microcredentials for 30 years !
Minimum can 10 hours credit and levelled
Through SCQF - most courses can be credit and levelled.
Green Shoots
Space Microcredentials - City of Glasgow College, Fife College and Edinburgh University.
Work of QAA Scotland - but what next ?
New MOOC Models - Glasgow University and Future Learn
Edinburgh University - across all MOOC platforms but now with Canvas and offers open courses too and #OER
Digital Badging Commission Working to improve application across vocational learning
System level challenges
What we need to get better at
Faster development of standards and qualifications - is the optimum in many vocational areas 18 months.
Digital certification for all - no more paper.
How will you award credentials /badges internally and externally ?
Can you/ could you leverage AI ?
Where is your institution in thinking about Microcredentials
Do you have a validation methodology ?
Are you offering these in other ways - perhaps less formally ?
Where will students use and display these ?
Why are only the ancients pushing ahead here ?
Is your institution working in the open ?
Do you model best practice and work in the open ?
How does your Institution support this ?
Do staff or students have a place to showcase their learning and or learning materials ?
Perhaps this slide should have come first - learning design is about teachers and learners becoming co-creators
Road ahead
What you need to enable
Co-Creation
Digital Skills and Digital Identities for all
Portfolios not exam halls
Personalised , Active , Blended and Connected Learning
Sharing Learning Materials beyond the institution
Canvas
Was a Moodle Fan - this is not advertorial -
Sharing platform / repository
The Commons is a great Open Educational Resource (OER) that allows users to exchange ideas, educational materials, videos, software, and even textbooks. This freely accessed domain provides an all-access pass for individuals seeking course materials without cost or other restrictions. All instructors can upload their materials or upload an entire course into the directory as either private or public resources.
Microcredentials at the ready
Digital Portfolios via
Folio in Canvas
Canvas Data 2
You need a system that offers excellent analytics
Personalised pathways
‘Our ability to record, store and process information from learners in numerous non-testing situations suggests a paradigm shift in assessment and learning ’
Source: Impacts of the Digital Ocean on Education
What changed
Ongoing Challenges
Call to action
Today -
Tertiary Landscape
Learning Design
Microcredentials
Artificial Intelligence
Open Education
A platform that can enable change
Tomorrow - perhaps
AR/VR/XR still hard to make cost effective.
Resource and equipment sharing
Analytics
Personalised Learning
An active UK community around #OER Conferences
My Optimist’s Manifesto
Social justice drives me.
Frustrations exist – but so does hope.
Change is always possible, and necessary.
You need to leverage benefits for sake of learners.
Stay critical. Stay kind. Stay open.
Remember Education is a love thing
Call to Action
For educators:
Share openly, build networks and support peers. It starts with you !
For institutions:
Enable open policies and spaces
For all:
Work together for a more equitable system and as a community let’s get back to networking
Thank You
“In the face of everything, we remain open.”
Open Education is much more achievable than Esperanto
Last century find me @Joecar and @Joecar80
Now mainly JoeWilson@joewilsons.net
With thanks over time to ...
In Scotland - Sarah Cornelius, University of Aberdeen; Sam Coulter, University of West Scotland; Linda Creanor, Glasgow Caledonian University; Kerr Gardiner, University of Glasgow; Marion Kelt, Glasgow Caledonian University; Natalie Lafferty, University of Dundee; Kenjij Lamb, College Development Network; Joe Wilson, joewilsons.net and many many more many of attendees at #oer conferences since 2012
Especial thanks to Lorna Campbell co-founder of Open Scotland who is normally my sensible filter
In open education work of UNESCO
Dominic Orr , Ben Jannsen , Sanjaya Mishra and so many more ..
In AI work of Donald Clark , Dominic Luks and many more
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#OpenScot Contacts
Lorna M. Campbell, lorna.m.campbell@ed.ac.uk | lorna.m.campbell@icloud.com
Joe Wilson , joe.wilson@joewilsons.net http://www.joewilsons.net @joecar
Open Scotland http://openscot.net/ | Open World http://lornamcampbell.org/
My New job herding cats for Lorna Campbell
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References -
Hewlett Foundation OER Strategy https://www.hewlett.org/strategy/open-educational-resources/
Unesco Policy Guidance https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000371129
Unesco Dubai Declaration 2024 https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000392271.locale=en
SQA AI Policy https://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/107507.html �
Current Projects
Joe Wilson Current work
UNESCO - shaping bid for project around better understanding of the open source code available for creation and management of Open Badges.
Working with UK Digital Badging Commission
Championing - Teachermatic and other AI platforms , Adaptive Comparative Judgement and Canvas by Instructure as means of changing the learning paradigm.
Following recent Dubai Summit working with Open Scotland to encourage more open educational practice in Scotland.
Supporting institutions and staff who want to digitally transform their practice and their learners’ experience
Reusing & Modifying Our Materials
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Work in the Open