Martin Weller's inaugural lecture at the Open University, exploring the changing nature of open education and the open university's role

1. Aspects of Open:
The evolution of the meaning of open education
#OUtalks
Professor Martin Weller
Professor of Education Technology

2. pollev.com/martinweller010
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3. Photo by Oscar Sutton on Unsplash
I shouldn’t be here!

5. What does the ‘open’ in Open University mean?

6. What could / should it mean?

7. The OPEN University

9. “Open to people, places,
methods and ideas”

10. Pre 1990s:
Open education = open universities

11. Me, the OU & open
Me, the OU & Open

12. Photo by Jingyi Wang on Unsplash
With networks and digital,
new versions of open arose

13. Discrete learning objects
Online repository
Reversioned new course
Open Source Teaching Project

14. T171
Large scale online:
T171

15. Open Source VLE

16. https://visualthinkery.com/
Open Educational Resources: OpenLearn

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Late 00s: open source VLE, large OER repository, large scale online
courses, providing range of free digital content

18. Open educational practice: blogging

19. MOOCS: FutureLearn, BOCs & experiments

20. https://visualthinkery.com/
Research: OER Hub

21. Open Research Practice

22. Open Access Publishing: JIME & books
https://visualthinkery.com

23. Image by Giulia Forsythe, Public Domain https://flic.kr/p/eR9rSr
UK Open
textbooks

24. Open pedagogy: YXM130, H880, OERu

26. Ways of thinking about open: OOFAT

27. OOFAT visualisation

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The OU currently

29. Mapping open education

30. Citation analysis network

31. 8 distinct
areas

32. Image: @bryanmmathers https://visualthinkery.com/
Open is a really good name for a university!

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What might an OU invented today focus on?

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Now Future
OOFAT: Future?

36. Photo by Melany Rochester on Unsplash
A voice for part-time students

37. Innovator around ‘Open’

39. Practical?
Evolving?
Diverse?
Necessary?
Useful?
Innovative?
The future?

40. Openness should not just be a strategy or marketing ploy.
It is embodied in every aspect of the university and the people
who work, study and engage with us.
At The Open University we’re always redefining what ‘open’
means in theory and in practice to provide genuine equality of
opportunity as people seek to learn and live. […]
Our challenge to the wider education sector is to embrace the
different interpretations of open, and how they benefit learners
and society more broadly.
The Open University
Manifesto signatory since 2013

41. 1990s
Traditional
OU model
1999
Large scale
E-learning
2004
VLE
2006
OER
2006
OEP
2009
MOOCs
2012
Open
Research
2008
Open
access
...
2017
Open textbooks
2018
Open
pedagogy
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A (very rough) timeline

42. The story we tell the world
about ourselves isn’t a luxury

43. Thank you
https://www.slideshare.net/mweller

44. 50.open.ac.uk