Open Educational Practices (OEP) are educational practices which promote and support equity and openness in education, with ‘open’ partly building on the freedoms associated with “the 5 Rs” of Open Educational Resources (OER) i.e. the ability to retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute content.
This might mean student participation in activities involving open sharing of resources or knowledge, including co-creating OER or peer assessment in the open, It can also include sharing teaching practices openly for teacher development and quality enhancement.
General
Open Educational Practices (OEP) is all about sharing and developing best practice in education in an open and accessible manner. Open educational practices can be a way of widening access to education, or to increasing the reach of educational resources, or improving the quality of education.
This collection includes case studies on how other people and institutions have used open educational resources and practices; guidance on ways of finding, using, creating and sharing high quality open educational resources (OER) and about how to use open educational practices; and research on open education.
This collection was developed as part of the Opening Educational Practices in Scotland project, funded by the Scottish Funding Council 2014-2017. It will continue to grow until the end of July 2017.
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