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Papers by Alastair Creelman
The European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2012
This article aims to share experience from a Swedish project on the introduction and implementati... more This article aims to share experience from a Swedish project on the introduction and implementation of Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education with both national and international pers ...
The main objective of the project was to try to understand how adult learners participate in educ... more The main objective of the project was to try to understand how adult learners participate in educational activities. Why do some learners never make an active contribution to course activities and ...
EDEN Conference Proceedings
The covid-19 emergency presented daunting challenges for all in higher education, in particular t... more The covid-19 emergency presented daunting challenges for all in higher education, in particular teachers and students who were forced to quickly pivot from the familiar setting of the campus to purely online education in a matter of days. Despite the enormity of this challenge the transition was negotiated successfully in terms of online teaching though issues such as social interaction, student isolation and digital divides remained largely unaddressed. In Sweden, the pandemic response has been a wake-up call to address the lack of national coordination of online and blended education as well as the need for more coordinated approaches to professional pedagogical development. This paper outlines the response of several national networks and stakeholder organisations, notably the Network for IT in Higher Education (ITHU), though the forming of a mutual support group on Facebook to coordinating workshops and sharing resources. A survey of ITHU members revealed a number of key focus a...
Ideas of Inclusive Pedagogy in the Context of Modern Requirements For Preschool School and Professional Education, 2013
This workshop aims to enable participants to investigate relationships between open educational r... more This workshop aims to enable participants to investigate relationships between open educational resources (OER) projects, user-generated content (UGC), Web 2.0 technologies and associated online learning communities within a collaborative environment. Participants will play a board game called OERopoly where gaming provides them with a grounded and enjoyable experience of collaborative intelligence in action. The OERopoly board game features international OER projects, organisations and their influence on academic practice. During the workshop participants will collaborate and share knowledge on OER by playing a highly adapted version of the well-known Monopoly format. The workshop thus exposes and explores the perceived relationships (both synergies and tensions) between three worlds: OER projects, UGC, Web2.0 technologies and associated online learning communities. Although there is a high international level of interest in OER and associated areas the field is still relatively unexploited in Sweden. The aim of this board game is to introduce participants to key concepts, projects and initiatives and offer the opportunity to share experience of OER and related web 2.0 technologies from their own universities. The focus of this board game, in stark contrast to the original, is collaboration and collective intelligence. By exploring key concepts and sharing knowledge in a game-based context participants will hopefully be inspired to discover more. This workshop has been devised with the full cooperation of the creators of the original version of OERopoly by Connolly, Makriyannis and Lane.
This article aims to share experience from a Swedish project on the introduction and implementati... more This article aims to share experience from a Swedish project on the introduction and implementation of Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education with both national and international perspectives. The project, OER-resources for learning, was part of the National Library of Sweden Open Access initiative and aimed at exploring, raising awareness of and disseminating the use of OER and the resulting pedagogical advantages for teaching and learning. Central to the project's activities were a series of regional seminars which all featured a combination of multi-site meetings combined with online participation. This combination proved highly successful and extended the reach of the project. In total the project reached around 1000 participants at its events and many more have seen the recorded sessions. Several unresolved issues beyond the scope of the project became explicit but which are absolutely crucial challenges. Firstly, the evolution from OER towards open educational practices (OEP) and open educational cultures (OEC). OEP and OEC imply the establishment of national and international policies and strategies where the use of OER is officially encouraged, sanctioned and developed. Secondly it became explicit that the issue of metadata is crucial for finding OER and facilitating their use and reuse for teachers and learners. Thirdly, the sustainability of OER must be stimulated by ensuring the creation of material that can easily be adapted and reused by teachers in other countries and contexts.
The European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2012
This article aims to share experience from a Swedish project on the introduction and implementati... more This article aims to share experience from a Swedish project on the introduction and implementation of Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education with both national and international pers ...
The main objective of the project was to try to understand how adult learners participate in educ... more The main objective of the project was to try to understand how adult learners participate in educational activities. Why do some learners never make an active contribution to course activities and ...
EDEN Conference Proceedings
The covid-19 emergency presented daunting challenges for all in higher education, in particular t... more The covid-19 emergency presented daunting challenges for all in higher education, in particular teachers and students who were forced to quickly pivot from the familiar setting of the campus to purely online education in a matter of days. Despite the enormity of this challenge the transition was negotiated successfully in terms of online teaching though issues such as social interaction, student isolation and digital divides remained largely unaddressed. In Sweden, the pandemic response has been a wake-up call to address the lack of national coordination of online and blended education as well as the need for more coordinated approaches to professional pedagogical development. This paper outlines the response of several national networks and stakeholder organisations, notably the Network for IT in Higher Education (ITHU), though the forming of a mutual support group on Facebook to coordinating workshops and sharing resources. A survey of ITHU members revealed a number of key focus a...
Ideas of Inclusive Pedagogy in the Context of Modern Requirements For Preschool School and Professional Education, 2013
This workshop aims to enable participants to investigate relationships between open educational r... more This workshop aims to enable participants to investigate relationships between open educational resources (OER) projects, user-generated content (UGC), Web 2.0 technologies and associated online learning communities within a collaborative environment. Participants will play a board game called OERopoly where gaming provides them with a grounded and enjoyable experience of collaborative intelligence in action. The OERopoly board game features international OER projects, organisations and their influence on academic practice. During the workshop participants will collaborate and share knowledge on OER by playing a highly adapted version of the well-known Monopoly format. The workshop thus exposes and explores the perceived relationships (both synergies and tensions) between three worlds: OER projects, UGC, Web2.0 technologies and associated online learning communities. Although there is a high international level of interest in OER and associated areas the field is still relatively unexploited in Sweden. The aim of this board game is to introduce participants to key concepts, projects and initiatives and offer the opportunity to share experience of OER and related web 2.0 technologies from their own universities. The focus of this board game, in stark contrast to the original, is collaboration and collective intelligence. By exploring key concepts and sharing knowledge in a game-based context participants will hopefully be inspired to discover more. This workshop has been devised with the full cooperation of the creators of the original version of OERopoly by Connolly, Makriyannis and Lane.
This article aims to share experience from a Swedish project on the introduction and implementati... more This article aims to share experience from a Swedish project on the introduction and implementation of Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education with both national and international perspectives. The project, OER-resources for learning, was part of the National Library of Sweden Open Access initiative and aimed at exploring, raising awareness of and disseminating the use of OER and the resulting pedagogical advantages for teaching and learning. Central to the project's activities were a series of regional seminars which all featured a combination of multi-site meetings combined with online participation. This combination proved highly successful and extended the reach of the project. In total the project reached around 1000 participants at its events and many more have seen the recorded sessions. Several unresolved issues beyond the scope of the project became explicit but which are absolutely crucial challenges. Firstly, the evolution from OER towards open educational practices (OEP) and open educational cultures (OEC). OEP and OEC imply the establishment of national and international policies and strategies where the use of OER is officially encouraged, sanctioned and developed. Secondly it became explicit that the issue of metadata is crucial for finding OER and facilitating their use and reuse for teachers and learners. Thirdly, the sustainability of OER must be stimulated by ensuring the creation of material that can easily be adapted and reused by teachers in other countries and contexts.