Practice

Examples

Production, management, use and reuse of open educational resources

Openly licensing recorded lectures and associated materials, and making them publicly available via the institution's web site (e.g. OpenSpires)

Collating and managing openly licensed materials relevant to a particular subject area in an open repository (e.g. HumBox)

Developing and applying open/public pedagogies in teaching practice

Facilitating/participating in massively online open courses (see for example the Connectivism MOOC)

Designing courses that require students to contribute to public knowledge resources (e.g. wikipedia, web sites) alongside teachers, academics, and the public

Open learning and gaining access to open learning opportunities

Learners accessing freely available online content (e.g. through sites such as the OER Commons, though more usually through standard internet searches)

Learners enrolling on free open/distance learning courses, either as 'tasters' for paid courses (e.g. OpenLearn) or on a peer to peer model (e.g. P2PU)

Learners collaborating on open knowledge-building projects (e.g. wikis, web sites)

Learners sharing outcomes with one another (e.g. essay sharing sites)

Open assessment/accreditation is an emerging aspects of open learning (see e.g. the OERU)

Practising open scholarship , to encompass open access publication, open science and open research

(See Weller, Martin (2011). The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice)

Making research data available in an open institutional repository, perhaps supported by apps to enable learning/teaching use (see e.g. City University's Open Access Repository and the University of Southampton Open Data service)

Publishing research findings in an open peer-reviewed journal (see e.g. the OpenScience directory) or repository

Open sharing of teaching ideas and know-how

Contributing to an open wiki or database of expertise in the use of specific learning technologies (see for example Cloudworks)

Sharing examples of teaching practice in an open subject community or repository (for example created using EdShare open source software)

Using open technologies (web-based platforms, applications and services) in an educational context

Using freely available third party software or web 2.0 services to support learning activities, ensuring all learners have equal access

Building open environments for collaboration using cloud services such as social bookmarking and media sharing sites.