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.

Open Scotland blog, http://openscot.net/

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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