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

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Autor/Urheber	Coughlan, Tim; Goff, Jenny
Institution	Commonwealth of Learning
Titel	Creating Open Online Courses with Learner Representative Partners to Widen Participation in Higher Education.
Quelle	In: Journal of Learning for Development - JL4D; Vol 6, No 2 (2019): ISSUE 2 ; 2311-1550(2019) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Distance Education; Educational Technology; open educational resources; widening participation; non-formal education; higher education; collaboration
Abstract	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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