scholarly journals An Analysis of Peer-Reviewed Publications on Open Educational Practices (OEP) from 2007 to 2020: A Bibliometric Mapping Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 10798
Author(s):  
Ahmed Tlili ◽  
Daniel Burgos ◽  
Ronghuai Huang ◽  
Sanjaya Mishra ◽  
Ramesh Chander Sharma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
Bibliometric Mapping ◽  
Mapping Analysis ◽  
Open Educational Practices ◽  
New Research

This study undertook a bibliometric mapping analysis of research papers on Open Educational Practices (OEP) in the Web of Science and Scopus databases. This study functions as a guide for new research, serving to identify trends in the OEP field and compare the existing research so as to identify gaps and promising future paths. A total of 635 studies were obtained; however, only 156 were finally selected for the analysis. VOSviewer software was used to identify the most frequently used keywords and terms in the abstracts and titles. This software was also used to analyse the studies for co-authorship and citations. The findings showed that research on OEP started in 2007 and focused on higher education, including open and distance higher education. Most of the OEP studies were published in English as journal articles, in particular, many were published in Distance Education, International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, and Open Praxis. The United Kingdom, Spain, and Australia were the top contributors to the OEP literature. The analysis of keywords and terms in the titles and abstracts revealed that current OEP trends covered only open pedagogy and open collaboration, suggesting a need for more research on other trends, such as open assessment, open data, and open science. The results also suggested that future research needs to focus more on inclusive open educational practices that accommodate students with disabilities.

scholarly journals Die Offenheit der wissenschaftlichen Ausbildung:

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (Offenheit in Lehre und Forschung) ◽  
pp. 72-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Heck ◽  
Anna Heudorfer
Keyword(s):  
Open Science ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
Selbstreguliertes Lernen ◽  
Soziales Lernen ◽  
Forschendes Lernen ◽  
Open Educational Practices

Dieser Artikel befasst sich mit zwei Lehr-/Lernansätzen, die aktuell stark diskutiert werden. Beiden ist gemeinsam, dass sie die Selbstständigkeit und die hohe Aktivität der Lernenden in den Mittelpunkt stellen (selbstreguliertes Lernen) und einen Fokus auf das kollaborative Arbeiten (soziales Lernen) legen. Forschendes Lernen zeichnet sich dadurch aus, dass es die wissenschaftliche Ausbildung an Hochschulen durch forschende Tätigkeiten der Studierenden umsetzen will. Offene Lehr-/Lernpraktiken (Open Educational Practices) werden in Zusammenhang mit der Öffnung von Lehre diskutiert, beinhalten in der Umsetzung jedoch auch Aspekte, die für eine offene Wissenschaft (Open Science) von Bedeutung sind. Sollen Studierende durch forschendes Lernen in Wissenschaft hineinwachsen, so spielt die Öffnung der Wissenschaft auch für sie eine Rolle. In unserem Beitrag diskutieren wir den Begriff der Offenheit aus diesen unterschiedlichen Perspektiven und gehen der Frage nach, inwieweit sich Aspekte offener Lehr-/Lernpraktiken in das Konzept des forschenden Lernens integrieren lassen. Wir schlagen eine Matrix vor, um die Offenheit im forschenden Lernen anhand der Merkmale offener Lehr-/Lernpraktiken sowie verschiedener Varianten forschenden Lernens zu vergleichen und diskutieren die Relevanz der Ansätze für die offene Wissenschaft. Die Zusammenführung von offenen Lehr-/Lernpraktiken und forschendem Lernen kann erste Einblicke geben, wie sich die an Hochschulen stattfindenden Öffnungsprozesse auf die wissenschaftliche Ausbildung auswirken.

scholarly journals Openness and Praxis: Exploring the Use of Open Educational Practices in Higher Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Cronin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Constructivist Grounded Theory ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Teaching Role ◽  
Education Environment ◽  
Open Educational Practices

<p class="3">Open educational practices (OEP) is a broad descriptor of practices that include the creation, use, and reuse of open educational resources (OER) as well as open pedagogies and open sharing of teaching practices. As compared with OER, there has been little empirical research on individual educators’ use of OEP for teaching in higher education. This research study addresses that gap, exploring the digital and pedagogical strategies of a diverse group of university educators, focusing on whether, why, and how they use OEP for teaching. The study was conducted at one Irish university; semi-structured interviews were carried out with educators across multiple disciplines. Only a minority of educators used OEP. Using constructivist grounded theory, a model of the concept “Using OEP for teaching” was constructed showing four dimensions shared by open educators: balancing privacy and openness, developing digital literacies, valuing social learning, and challenging traditional teaching role expectations. The use of OEP by educators is complex, personal, and contextual; it is also continually negotiated. These findings suggest that research-informed policies and collaborative and critical approaches to openness are required to support staff, students, and learning in an increasingly complex higher education environment.</p>

scholarly journals Conceptualizing Open Educational Practices through the Lens of Constructive Alignment

Open Praxis ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Paskevicius
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Learning Design ◽  
The Core ◽  
Learning Practices ◽  
Open Educational Practices

The act of instruction may be conceptualized as consisting of four elements: learning outcomes, learning resources, teaching and learning activities, and assessments and evaluation. For instructors in higher education, the way they manage the relationships between these elements is what could be considered the core of their instructional practice. For each of the elements, this paper seeks to identify open educational practices, their affordances, and evidence of their utility in supporting the work of teachers in shifting from existing teaching and learning practices to more open educational practices. The literature reviewed and model proposed may provide educational developers or proponents of open education a lens with which to discuss open educational practices with faculty specifically related to their teaching and learning design practices.

scholarly journals Key Aspects of Open Data in Finnish RDI Cooperation between Higher Education and Businesses

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Seliina Päällysaho ◽  
Jaana Latvanen ◽  
Anttoni Lehto ◽  
Jaakko Riihimaa ◽  
Pekka Lahti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Research Data ◽  
General Level ◽  
Joint Research ◽  
Research Organizations ◽  
Universities Of Applied Sciences ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Five Phases

The article highlights aspects that should be considered during an open research, development, and innovation (RDI) process cycle to improve the utilization of research data and foster open cooperation between higher education and businesses. The viewpoint here is in publicly funded joint research projects of the universities of applied sciences (UAS), the concept is, however, applicable in other higher education and research organizations as well. There are various challenges related to research data management in general as well as to the openness and reuse of data and results. The findings of this article are based on the results of a two-day expert workshop, and these results are interlinked with five phases of an open RDI process cycle: planning, implementation, documentation, sharing, and commercialization. Various drivers and barriers can be identified in different stages of the process. On a general level, special attention must be paid to critical factors such as ownership and sharing of data and results, confidential information and business secrets as well as following the requirements of the open science policies of the participating organizations and funders. This article also highlights several best practices that should be considered in each phase of an open RDI process cycle with businesses.

scholarly journals PRAXIS: Open Educational Practices and Open Science to face the challenges of critical Educational Action Research

Open Praxis ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 381
Author(s):  
Ada Czerwonogora ◽  
Virginia Rodés
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Teaching Innovation ◽  
Open Educational Practices ◽  
Participatory Technologies ◽  
The Impact

The paper presents the findings from PRAXIS, an educational action research project developed within academic professional learning communities (PLC) in the context of public higher education in Uruguay. As a strategy towards fostering teaching innovation, we explored the potential and benefits of academic PLC for the reflection and transformation of teaching practices, and the integration of digital technologies in a meaningful way into teaching. The approach was based on Open Science (OS) and Open Educational Practices (OEP) as foundational frameworks to face the challenges of critical Educational Action Research. Key findings of the project emphasise the impact of PRAXIS framework combining OEP, OS, and academic PLC, as well as collaborative and participatory technologies for the transformation of teaching and educational research practices.

scholarly journals Dynamics of Cumulative Advantage and Threats to Equity in Open Science - A Scoping Review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Ross-Hellauer ◽  
Stefan Reichmann ◽  
Nicki Lisa Cole ◽  
Angela Fessl ◽  
Thomas Klebel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Cumulative Advantage ◽  
The Public ◽  
Technological Readiness ◽  
Data Practices ◽  
Qualitative Methodologies ◽  
Research And Policy

Open Science holds the promise to make scientific endeavours more inclusive, participatory, understandable, accessible, and re-usable for large audiences. However, making processes open will not per se drive wide re-use or participation unless also accompanied by the capacity (in terms of knowledge, skills, financial resources, technological readiness and motivation) to do so. These capacities vary considerably across regions, institutions and demographics. Those advantaged by such factors will remain potentially privileged, putting Open Science’s agenda of inclusivity at risk of propagating conditions of “cumulative advantage”. With this paper, we systematically scope existing research addressing the question: “What evidence and discourse exists in the literature about the ways in which dynamics and structures of inequality could persist or be exacerbated in the transition to Open Science, across disciplines, regions and demographics?” Aiming to synthesise findings, identify gaps in the literature, and inform future research and policy, our results identify threats to equity associated with all aspects of Open Science, including Open Access, Open/FAIR Data, Open Methods, Open Evaluation, Citizen Science, as well as its interfaces with society, industry and policy. Key threats include: stratifications of publishing due to the exclusionary nature of the author-pays model of Open Access; potential widening of the digital divide due to the infrastructure-dependent, highly situated nature of open data practices; risks of diminishing qualitative methodologies as “reproducibility” becomes synonymous with quality; new risks of bias and exclusion in means of transparent evaluation; and crucial asymmetries in the Open Science relationships with industry and the public, which privileges the former and fails to fully include the latter.

scholarly journals A Case Study of Applying Open Educational Practices in Higher Education during COVID-19: Impacts on Learning Motivation and Perceptions

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 9129
Author(s):  
Xiangling Zhang ◽  
Ahmed Tlili ◽  
Ronghuai Huang ◽  
Tingwen Chang ◽  
Daniel Burgos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Learning Motivation ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Open Educational Practices ◽  
The Impact

Open Educational Resources (OER) have been researched for a long time in the open education field. Researchers are now shifting their focus from resources to practices for delivering open education, an area called Open Educational Practices (OEP). However, there is little information in the related literature regarding the design of an OEP-based course or the impact of these types of courses. Therefore, this study designs a new OEP-based course at a public university for teaching family education during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also investigates its impact on learning motivation and teachers’ perceptions. In this context, a practical pilot experiment using both qualitative and quantitative methods was conducted. Specifically, 36 learners participated in this experiment. The obtained findings highlight: (1) an innovative design framework for OEP-based courses that teachers can refer to in their contexts; (2) that learners had a high motivation level in terms of knowledge achievements, individual connection and engagement when taking the OEP-based course; and (3) several advantages and challenges of the OEP-based course from the teacher’s and learners’ perspectives. For instance, the teacher reported the fear of losing control over the learning process when applying OEP. The findings of this paper can help researchers and educators in adopting OEP in higher education especially in times of crises, as well as increase the sustainability of OEP, hence contributing to open education development.

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