Open Scotland Lorna M. Campbell, Cetis

&Joe Wilson, SQA

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_Educational_Resources

http://oerconsortium.org/

http://www.jorum.ac.uk/

http://www.merlot.org/

http://www.oercommons.org/

http://www.ocwconsortium.org/

Open Scotland is a collaborative, 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.

UKOER Programme• Funded by HEFCE between 2009 – 2012.

• 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.

• All resource tagged #ukoer

and deposited in Jorum

national repository

http://www.jorum.ac.uk/

OER Visualisation Project by Martin Hawksey, http://mashe.hawksey.info/2012/02/oer-visualisation-project-fin-day-40-5/

Scottish Open Education Developments

• Re:Source FE OER Repository

• Edinburgh Napier University’s 3E Framework

• Glasgow Caledonian University Library’s OER Guidelines

• Coursera and FutureLearn MOOCs

• Open Badges for Scottish Education

Group

• Wikimedia UK & OKF Scotland

• Learning Resource Metadata Initiative

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.• http://openscot.net/event-repor

ts/open-scotland-report-and-actions/

#OpenScot

An open declaration for Scotland?

Scottish Open Education Declarationhttp://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

C. Reinforce the development of strategies and

policies for open assessment practices, open

educational resources and open online courses.

Support the adoption of open licences for all

publicly funded educational content. Promote the

development and use of open educational resources

within wider strategies for advancing education.

Scottish Open Education Declaration

K. Promote the adoption of procurement policies

that give equal consideration to open source

software and openly licensed materials, and

support the development in education and related

sectors of processes and practices to provide a

level playing field for open source software and

open education resources in procurement.

Open Scotland Events

• OER14 Conference, University of Newcastle, 28-29 May 2014.

• Second Open Scotland event, hosted by the ALT Scotland SIG, University of Edinburgh, 3 June 2014.

How to get involved

• Keep an eye on the Open

Scotland blog.

• Comment on the Scottish

Open Education Declaration.

• Volunteer a post for the Open

Scotland blog.

• Follow the #OpenScot hashtag

on twitter.

• Look out for webinars and

events.

“Open Scotland” by Lorna M Campbell, lorna.m.campbell@icloud.com of Cetis http://www.cetis.ac.uk/ is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licencehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/