open education and the hidden tariff

Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

Open Education & The Hidden TariffRonald Macintyre@oepsscotland@roughbounds

Presenters name(s)

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Session StructureWhy are we so upset when well educated professionals are the dominant users of free and open online learning resources

Making visible the “tariff” Higher Education

What might be hidden in OER? the neoliberal subject

The Skills to perform digital labour

Open Education resources


About usThe Opening Educational Practices in Scotland project facilitates best practice in Scottish open education. We aim to enhance Scotland’s reputation and capacity for developing publicly available and licenced online materials, supported by high quality pedagogy and learning technology.

BUT: These thoughts are my own and not endorsed by the OEPS“”

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Tariffs in HE ….

Pedagogic assumptions made visible within Open

Education

Post entry those from

non traditional

backgrounds feel “out of

place”HE tends to accentuate /reinforce underlying inequities

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Why Look for a Tariff in OER?

Not fulfilled “its promise”,

learners seem to be well educated

professionals

Arose in jurisdictions where HE is

heavily marketised

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Does thinking of Education as Labour help us?

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Free Labour and Open Education

Ignoring …How free platforms extract value from learner

Focus on …How free labour is performed and making visible assumptions

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So What! … Education providers tend to make openness in their own image

The routines and hidden assumptions from the formal offer and often reproduced in “the open”

[Again] So what!

Making visible those assumptions might allow us to be open to the learners “we ought to have”

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The “Other” Open: Heal thyself

Awakening …

Digital literacies?

Self directed learner?

Partnership “Trusted Source”

Open Badges …

Relevant Knowledge

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Making Visible Hidden Tariff'sLabour metaphor allows us to see the Tariff/Barriers in relation to work learners need to do – identify the skills required to learnSpeaking about unspoken assumptions about learners skills to perform labour on free open online materials – making them visible

Reflecting on the barriers to access and participation as a series of visible and hidden tariffs – understanding their role

Designing and developing appropriate content, structures and process to broaden remove/mitigate visible and hidden tariffs – doing something about it.

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What next … Practically, look at and develop ways of designing for Openness that make visible and address hidden tariffs

[Just in case there are no question] My outstanding questions

•What are the rewards from free labour, and whom do the rewards accrue – what kinds of learners and what kinds of organisations.


Questions


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Acknowledgements

The OEPS Team; License and CitationThis work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Please cite this work as: Macintyre R. (2016).Open Education and the Hidden Tariff. In Proceedings of Open Education Global 2016: Convergence Through Collaboration. Retrieved from http://conference.oeconsortium.org/2016/paper-id.

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