Creating Open Online Courses with Learner Representative Partners to Widen Participation in Higher Education

Open online courses could provide stepping stones for audiences that are under-represented in higher education (HE). However, there are concerns that these instead proliferate forms of exclusion and do not address known difficulties for widening participation. We explore how organisations that repre...

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Autor principal:	Tim Coughlan
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Commonwealth of Learning 2019
Materias:	open educational resources widening participation non-formal education higher education collaboration elearning Theory and practice of education LB5-3640
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/f3644fafaa794ca6adda4cd96251616f
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f3644fafaa794ca6adda4cd96251616f2021-12-02T23:44:56ZCreating Open Online Courses with Learner Representative Partners to Widen Participation in Higher Education2311-1550https://doaj.org/article/f3644fafaa794ca6adda4cd96251616f2019-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://jl4d.org/index.php/ejl4d/article/view/336 https://doaj.org/toc/2311-1550Open online courses could provide stepping stones for audiences that are under-represented in higher education (HE). However, there are concerns that these instead proliferate forms of exclusion and do not address known difficulties for widening participation. We explore how organisations that represent the perspectives of particular underserved audiences for HE can act as ‘Learner Representative Partners’ to support the creation of appropriate courses and to highlight practices that exclude. Six course development processes where a university worked with different partners are analysed using interviews, documentation of resource use, and data on learner behaviour. The analysis utilises previously identified challenges to widening participation and collaborative course creation. Getting partners to directly engage in authoring the course was particularly beneficial but all partners prompted critical thought and greater understanding of the intended audiences. We suggest principles to support such partnerships effectively. These include adapting to a variable capacity of partners to contribute, to encourage reuse or creation of resources by partners, and to facilitate partners to feel confident in expressing their views.Tim CoughlanCommonwealth of Learningarticleopen educational resourceswidening participationnon-formal educationhigher educationcollaborationelearningTheory and practice of educationLB5-3640ENJournal of Learning for Development, Vol 6, Iss 2, Pp 143-159 (2019)
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description	Open online courses could provide stepping stones for audiences that are under-represented in higher education (HE). However, there are concerns that these instead proliferate forms of exclusion and do not address known difficulties for widening participation. We explore how organisations that represent the perspectives of particular underserved audiences for HE can act as ‘Learner Representative Partners’ to support the creation of appropriate courses and to highlight practices that exclude. Six course development processes where a university worked with different partners are analysed using interviews, documentation of resource use, and data on learner behaviour. The analysis utilises previously identified challenges to widening participation and collaborative course creation. Getting partners to directly engage in authoring the course was particularly beneficial but all partners prompted critical thought and greater understanding of the intended audiences. We suggest principles to support such partnerships effectively. These include adapting to a variable capacity of partners to contribute, to encourage reuse or creation of resources by partners, and to facilitate partners to feel confident in expressing their views.
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title	Creating Open Online Courses with Learner Representative Partners to Widen Participation in Higher Education
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Creating Open Online Courses with Learner Representative Partners to Widen Participation in Higher Education

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