How Are We Doing with Open Education Practice Initiatives? Applying an Institutional Self-Assessment Tool in Five Higher Education Institutions

This collaborative self-study examines how five higher education institutions in British Columbia (BC), Canada, have achieved momentum with openness and are implementing and sustaining their efforts. A goal of this research was to see whether an institutional self-assessment tool—adapted from blende...

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Autores principales: Tannis Morgan, Elizabeth Childs, Christina Hendricks, Michelle Harrison, Irwin DeVries, Rajiv Jhangiani
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:16c2a874b4a245d1b0ffb498649540f12021-11-24T22:29:46ZHow Are We Doing with Open Education Practice Initiatives? Applying an Institutional Self-Assessment Tool in Five Higher Education Institutions10.19173/irrodl.v22i4.57451492-3831https://doaj.org/article/16c2a874b4a245d1b0ffb498649540f12021-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/5745https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831This collaborative self-study examines how five higher education institutions in British Columbia (BC), Canada, have achieved momentum with openness and are implementing and sustaining their efforts. A goal of this research was to see whether an institutional self-assessment tool—adapted from blended learning and institutional transformation research—can help to assess how an institution has progressed with its open education initiatives. By adopting both an appreciative and a critical approach, the researchers at these five BC institutions compared the similarities and differences between their institutional approaches and the evolution of their initiatives. The paper includes discussion of how a self-assessment tool for institutional open education practices (OEP) can be applied to OEP initiatives at an institutional level and shares promising practices and insights that emerge from this research. Tannis MorganElizabeth ChildsChristina HendricksMichelle HarrisonIrwin DeVriesRajiv JhangianiAthabasca University Pressarticleopen education practicesself-assessment toolinstitutional initiativesblended learninginstitutional transformationSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 22, Iss 4 (2021)
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topic open education practices
self-assessment tool
institutional initiatives
blended learning
institutional transformation
Special aspects of education
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spellingShingle open education practices
self-assessment tool
institutional initiatives
blended learning
institutional transformation
Special aspects of education
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Tannis Morgan
Elizabeth Childs
Christina Hendricks
Michelle Harrison
Irwin DeVries
Rajiv Jhangiani
How Are We Doing with Open Education Practice Initiatives? Applying an Institutional Self-Assessment Tool in Five Higher Education Institutions
description This collaborative self-study examines how five higher education institutions in British Columbia (BC), Canada, have achieved momentum with openness and are implementing and sustaining their efforts. A goal of this research was to see whether an institutional self-assessment tool—adapted from blended learning and institutional transformation research—can help to assess how an institution has progressed with its open education initiatives. By adopting both an appreciative and a critical approach, the researchers at these five BC institutions compared the similarities and differences between their institutional approaches and the evolution of their initiatives. The paper includes discussion of how a self-assessment tool for institutional open education practices (OEP) can be applied to OEP initiatives at an institutional level and shares promising practices and insights that emerge from this research.
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author Tannis Morgan
Elizabeth Childs
Christina Hendricks
Michelle Harrison
Irwin DeVries
Rajiv Jhangiani
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title How Are We Doing with Open Education Practice Initiatives? Applying an Institutional Self-Assessment Tool in Five Higher Education Institutions
title_short How Are We Doing with Open Education Practice Initiatives? Applying an Institutional Self-Assessment Tool in Five Higher Education Institutions
title_full How Are We Doing with Open Education Practice Initiatives? Applying an Institutional Self-Assessment Tool in Five Higher Education Institutions
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