开放教育实践能力建设——来自澳大利亚高等教育的启示

Building capacity for open educational practices in Australian higher education

开放教育(尤其是开放教育实践)已经影响到世界各地的教育系统。具体到高等教育领域,开放教育为学习者和教育工作者带来好处,并影响现行的战略性计划和政策。此外,近年来开放教育还影响到国家的科研政策和拨款。由于机构的组织因素不同,如文化、相关政策、基础设施、意愿和意识等,开放教育实践开展情况可能会因机构而异。从全球看,机构的这些组织因素可能有利于教育机构开展开放教育,但也可能给教育机构提出挑战。然而,很多研究认为,开展开放教育实践的一个关键策略是能力建设。也许因为这样,所以澳大利亚尝试开展开放教育实践的大学把能力建设当作一项重要活动来抓。本文阐述近年来澳大利亚高等教育领域的一些开放教育实践能力建设项目文章。首先简要讨论能力建设的作用,同时指出能力建设并非新举措;随后对这些项目与更为传统的能力建设做法进行对比分析,并提出一些建议和需要考虑的问题。

Open education,in particular open educational practices(OEP)has already impacted educational systems around the world.In higher education more specifically,it has benefited learners and educators and influenced current strategic plans and policies.In addition,recent open education has influenced nation-wide research policy and funding.OEP engagement and adoption can vary from institutions to institutions due to many organizational factors,including culture,related policies,infrastructure,willingness and awareness.These organizational factors can enable,but also pose challenges to educational institutions globally.However,many studies have argued that a key strategy to OEP adoption is capacity building.This is probably why capacity building is the predominant activity amongst the universities experimenting with OEP in Australia.This paper explores some of the recent capacity building initiatives for OEP in Australian higher education.It starts with a brief discussion about the role of capacity building more traditional approaches to capacity building,followed by some recommendations and considerations.