Open doesn’t work. | OEPScotland

lterrat's bookmarks 2017-05-31

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"In other words, it was realised very early on that open is not enough. You can’t just open doors and say 'here’s a bunch of stuff, I’ll be back to subject you to a terrific examination later in your life!'. In fact, simply being open and doing nothing as you allow students fail is arguably worse than being closed (I won’t cite the literature on this because it will make you cry).

Open has to be supported properly because there is not one type of student when you serve a general population. Outside a normal self-selecting university population fraction, a huge range of learning and teaching is required – this is the population for whom normative education is more likely to be less effective.

And that’s before we consider supported open pastoral care, general learning development, additional educational needs, outlying academic communities…

Open education isn’t something that exists in and of itself (except to further the ideologies outlined above).

So I agree with, and give the last word to, @sheilmcn on this: open is something you do."

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https://oepscotland.org/2017/05/30/open-doesnt-work/

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05/31/2017, 17:45

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05/31/2017, 13:45