Post on 10-Jul-2015
Open Scotland & the
Scottish Open Education
Declaration
Lorna M. Campbell
Cetis
• Centre for Educational Technology, Interoperability and
Standards
• http://www.cetis.ac.uk/
Cetis
• A national UK technology advisory centre providing
strategic, technical and pedagogical advice on
educational technology and standards to funding bodies,
standards agencies, government, institutions and
commercial partners.
Areas of expertise
• Standards development
• Course data standards
• Assessment standards
• eTextbook standards
• ePortfolios
• Interoperability testing
• Enterprise architecture
• Learning analytics
• Open educational policy &
technology
• MOOCs
• Vocabulary management
• Metadata & resource
description
• Horizon scanning
• Technical advisory &
strategic consultancy
Who does Cetis work with?
Open Scotland
Open Scotland
Open Scotland is a cross
sector initiative that aims to
raise awareness of open
education, encourage the
sharing of open educational
resources, and explore the
potential of open policy and
practice to benefit all sectors
of Scottish education.
UNESCO / COL OER Survey & Declaration
UKOER Programme
• Funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for
England (HEFCE) between 2009 – 2012.
• Only English Higher Education institutions could bid.
• Managed by Jisc and HEA and supported by Cetis.
• Invested over £10 million.
• Funded over 80 individual projects.
• Aimed at releasing OERs and embedding sustainable
open practice in institutions.
#UKOER
Scottish Open Education Developments
• Re:Source FE OER Repository
• Edinburgh Napier University’s 3E Framework
• Glasgow Caledonian University Library’s OER
Guidelines
• Glasgow Caledonian Academy
• MOOCs
• Open Badges for Scottish Education Group
• Wikimedia UK & Open Knowledge
• ALT Scotland SIG
Re:Source
• A Resource sharing platform for the college sector in
Scotland.
• Powered by Jorum.
• Aims to provide
“…access to a rich
collection of OER
content from Scotland’s
Colleges & related
collections of interest to
the FE Sector.”
To make active use of technology to meaningfully enhance the learning,
teaching and assessment experience across all modules.
Enhance Extend Empower
Adopting technology in simple
and effective ways to actively
support students and increase
their activity and self-
responsibility
Further use of technology that
facilitates key aspects of
collaborative learning and
assessment through increasing
their choice and control
Developed use of technology
that requires higher order
individual and collaborative
learning that reflects how
knowledge is created and used
in the professional environment
eg. Seminar participation
Provide a discussion board for
students to post follow-up
comments (queries, issues that
seminar to be picked up during
lecture
Encourage more equal
engagement in seminars by
having students take turns (in
pairs or small groups) to
produce a summary of that
online, perhaps with a follow-up
question to be tackled
Have students work in pairs or
small groups to design and lead
online seminars for particular
units, with guidance from tutor
on their proposed topic and
approach
3E levels of examples
Napier 3E Framework
Glasgow Caledonian University Library
OER Guidelines
Glasgow Caledonian Academy
• UKOER Evaluation and Synthesis
• OER4Adults
MOOCs
• University of Edinburgh have run a number of Coursera
courses attracting over 300,000 students in one year.
• Edinburgh, Glasgow and Strathclyde are FutureLearn
partners.
Open Badges
• SQA formally announced it’s intention to work with Mozilla
Foundation to:
“investigate the opportunities presented by an innovative approach
to displaying individuals’ learning accomplishments online.”
• Open Badges in Scottish Education Group, funded by SFC,
supported by Jisc RSC Scotland.
Wikimedia UK
• Wikimedian-in-residence appointed to the National Library of
Scotland in 2013.
• Wide range of editathons taking place across Scotland.
• Women in Science, Royal Society of Edinburgh.
• Scottish Women on Wikipedia, Glasgow Women’s Library.
• Scottish Women in Contemporary Art, Duncan of Jordanstone
College of Art and Design
• What I Know Is, University of Stirling.
• EduWiki Conference 2014, University of Edinburgh.
Open Knowledge
• Open Knowledge is a non profit organisation founded in Cambridge
in 2004 which promotes open knowledge, open data and open
content.
• Local OK Scotland Group established.
• Regular free and informal Meetups Edinburgh and Glasgow.
• Open Knowledge Open Education Working Group.
ALT
• ALT Scotland SIG.
• Open Education SIG.
• Run annual events across Scotland.
Open Scotland Summit
• Brought together senior
managers, policy makers
and key thinkers to explore
the development of open
education policy and practice
in Scotland.
• National Museum of
Scotland, Edinburgh, June
2013.
Open Scotland Participants
• Scottish Government
• Scottish Qualifications Authority
• Education Scotland
• Scottish Funding Council
• Quality Assurance Agency
• College Development Network
• National Library of Scotland
• Universities of
Edinburgh, Dundee,
Heriot Watt, UHI,
Glasgow Caledonian.
• Jisc
• Jorum
• Jisc RSC Scotland
• Jisc RSC Cymru
• OSS Watch
• Nordic Open Education
Alliance
• Creative Commons
• POERUP Project
How can openness help to address
strategic priorities and challenges?
• Academic publishing
• OER and licence restrictions
• Joining up open practice
• Quality assurance
• Learners as co-creators
• Change management
• Preparing F/HE for Curriculum for Excellence
• FE funding cuts
How can openness help to address
strategic priorities and challenges?
• Can openness address the government’s “Big
Ticket” strategic agendas?
• Post-16 education.
• Knowledge transfer.
• Curriculum change.
• School – college –
university articulation.
Open Education, Open Scotland
• Brought ALT Scotland SIG members and the wider
community together to share ideas and experiences of
adopting and promoting open educational practices
across all sectors of Scottish education.
• Representatives of Scottish Government, SFC, SQA,
FE, HE and school sector.
• Edinburgh Informatics Forum, June 2014.
Scottish Open Education Declaration
http://declaration.openscot.net/
Paris OER Declaration
C. Reinforce the development of strategies and
policies on OER: Promote the development of
specific policies for the production and use of OER
within wider strategies for advancing education.
Scottish Open Education Declaration
• d. Reinforce the development of strategies and
policies for open assessment practices, open
educational resources and open online
courses. Promote the development and use of
open educational resources within wider
strategies for advancing education.
“Open education can expand access to education,
widen participation, create new opportunities for the
next generation of teachers and learners and
prepare them to become fully engaged digital
citizens. In addition, open education can promote
knowledge transfer while at the same time
enhancing quality and sustainability, supporting
social inclusion, and creating a culture of inter-
institutional collaboration and sharing.”
• Reclaim Hosting
http://reclaimhosting.com/
• Comment Press
http://futureofthebook.org/commentpress/
• The Institute for the Future of the Book
http://futureofthebook.org
Scottish Open Education Declaration 0.2
• Second draft of Declaration launched
21/11/2014.
• Funding provided by the Open University’s
Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
project.
• Incorporates input from the POERUP project
open education policy guidelines for Scotland.
Scottish Open Education Declaration 0.2
“Support capacity building to encourage sustainable open
education practice and the development of quality open
educational resources. Establish adequately funded
professional development programmes to help teachers
and other key personnel to understand the benefits of all
forms of open education and to encourage them to produce
and share high-quality, accessible educational content,
resources and experiences, while taking into account local
needs and the full diversity of learners.”
declaration.openscot.net
Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
• Open University project funded by the Scottish Funding
Council (SFC).
• £1.27 million allocated over 3 years.
Opening Educational Practices in Scotland, http://oepscotland.org/
How to get involved…
• Comment on the draft
declaration.
• Keep an eye on the Open
Scotland blog.
• Volunteer a post for the Open
Scotland blog.
• Follow the #OpenScot hashtag
on twitter.
• Look out for webinars and
events.
#OpenScot
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Open Scotland and the
Scottish Open Education Declaration
By Lorna M Campbell, lorna.m.campbell@icloud.com
of Cetis http://www.cetis.ac.uk is licensed under the
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