The view from Scotland: What can Germany learn from OER initiatives in the UK?
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The view from Scotland What can Germany learn from OER initiatives in the UK? Lorna M. Campbell
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This presentation introduces a range of contrasting initiatives that have aimed to promote open education policy and practice in Scotland, England and Wales over the last five years. These include the UKOER Programme, Open Scotland, OER Wales, the Welsh Open Education Declaration of Intent, the Scottish Open Education Declaration and the Opening Educational Practice in Scotland project. The paper will reflect on the different approaches taken by these initiatives and ask what Germany can learn from the experiences of open education practitioners in the UK.
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The view from ScotlandWhat can Germany learn from OER initiatives in the UK?
Lorna M. Campbell
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Glasgow
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Cetis
• Centre for Educational Technology, Interoperability
and Standards http://www.cetis.ac.uk/
• 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.
About Cetis
Partnership between:
• University of Bolton.
• Heriot Watt
University.
Areas of expertise
• Learning analytics
• Course data standards
• Assessment standards
• eTextbook standards
• ePortfolios
• Enterprise architecture
• Open educational resources
• MOOCs
• Vocabulary management
• Metadata & resource
description
• Digital repositories
• Standards development
• Interoperability testing
• Horizon scanning
• Technical advisory &
strategic consultancy
Who does Cetis work with?
UKOER Programme
• Funded by the Higher Education Council for
England (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.
• Only English Higher Education institutions could
bid.
David Kernohan, CC BY, http://followersoftheapocalyp.se/what-i-talk-about-when-i-talk-about-ukoer/
Many people,many
practices,one
community.UKOER, David Kernohan, http://followersoftheapocalyp.se/?attachment_id=984
Open Nottingham is designed to foster increased use, reuse and publication of open educational resources (OER) by staff and students across the university and beyond.There are four strategic drivers guiding Nottingham’s involvement in OER activities:
1. Social Responsibility2. The Student Experience3. Cost Efficiencies4. Promotional Opportunities
Open Nottingham, http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/open/opennottingham.aspx
Open Learn, http://www.open.edu/openlearn/, launched in 2006.
OER at the OU, http://www.open.ac.uk/about/open-educational-resources/
Meanwhile in Wales…
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Wales Open Education Declaration of Intent, http://www.hew.ac.uk/welsh-universities-sign-declaration-of-intent-embedding-open-education-at-the-heart-of-their-strategies/, 2013
“We believe embedding Open Educational Practice across the Welsh higher education community will facilitate an improved, quality educational experience for students through OER…We believe that we have a responsibility to the next generation of scholars, whether they are based within our own universities or further afield, because they are the innovators of tomorrow. ”
Wales Open Education Declaration of Intenthttp://www.hew.ac.uk/wp/media/OER-Declaration-of-Intent-Sept-2013.pdf
Open & online: Wales higher education and emerging modes of learning, http://wales.gov.uk/docs/dcells/publications/140402-online-digital-learning-working-group-en.pdf
To the Minister for Education and Skills:
1. Widening access to higher education to those with low participation backgrounds.2. Developing skills for the workplace and the Welsh economy3. Developing Welsh language skills for employment
To the higher education institutions:
4. Reviewing institutional policies, monitoring developments and exploiting opportunities5. Strengthening institutional reputation and brand
To the Minister and the higher education institutions:
6. Improving the skills of higher education staff7. Licensing and sharing open educational resources
Open & online: Wales higher education and emerging modes of learning, http://wales.gov.uk/docs/dcells/publications/140402-online-digital-learning-working-group-en.pdf
North of the border…
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The University of Edinburgh Coursera, https://www.coursera.org/edinburgh
SQA Open Badges announcement, http://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/67688.html
Open Scotland
Open ScotlandOpen 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. Lorna M. Campbell, CC BY SA 3.0.
Open Scotland Summit
Brought together
senior managers,
policy makers and key
thinkers to explore the
development of open
education policy and
practice in Scotland.
Martin Hawksey, CC BY SA 3.0.
Scottish Open Education Declarationhttp://declaration.openscot.net/
#OpenScot
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/
• Analysis of current open educational practices.
• Events programme across Scotland to raise awareness of OEP.
• Development of an online hub to encourage and share best practice in open education.
• Development of a small number of high quality OERs of particular benefit to Scotland.
• Badging of informal learning.
• Learning design for widening participation.
• Research and evaluation building strong evidence base.
• Evaluation of various economic models of openness.
“In the long term the project plans to leverage more funding and ensure future sustainability of open educational practices in Scotland.”
Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Opening Educational Practices in Scotland, http://oepscotland.org/
“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. In addition, 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.”
Open Scotland Declarationhttp://declaration.openscot.net/
Many people,many
practices,one
community.UKOER, David Kernohan, http://followersoftheapocalyp.se/?attachment_id=984
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