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Open ScotlandOpening up education across Scotland
Lorna M. Campbell
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.
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
About Cetis
Partnership between:
• University of Bolton.
• Heriot Watt
University.
• Three staff located in
Scotland.
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
Who do Cetis we work with?
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
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
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
Community engagement
• Cetis website and blogs
• Active social media presence
• Event amplification
• Webinars
• F2F events
• Public speaking
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
Cetis Briefing Papers
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
Technical Synthesis
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
Whitepapers
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
Cetis Conference
Building The Digital Institution:
Technological Innovation in Universities and
Colleges
17th – 18th June 2014
University of Bolton
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
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.
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
Open Scotland
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
UNESCO / COL OER Survey & Declaration
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
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/
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
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
• Coursera and FutureLearn MOOCs
• Open Badges for Scottish Education Group
• Wikimedia UK & OKF Scotland
• Learning Resource Metadata Initiative
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
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.”
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
Napier 3E Framework
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
Glasgow Caledonian University Library OER Guidelines
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
Glasgow Caledonian Academy
• UKOER Evaluation and Synthesis
• OER4Adults
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
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.
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
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.
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
Wikimedia UK
• Wikimedian-in-residence appointed to the National Library
of Scotland in 2013 (Ally Crockford).
• Women in Science editathon, Royal Society of Edinburgh.
• Scottish Women on Wikipedia, Glasgow Women’s Library
and Graeme Arnott.
• Many of these developments are being driven by the library
sector.
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
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 in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
• Recent topics: Glasgow Future Cities Project, Open Street Map
the Cabinet Office Open Standards Hub, the Digital
Commonwealth project, publishing digital content at the NLS,
Edinburgh Datashare, linked data vocabularies for cultural
heritage.
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
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.
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
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
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
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.
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
Scottish Open Education Declarationhttp://declaration.openscot.net/
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
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.
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
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.
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
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.
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
Open Scotland Blog http://openscot.net/
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
#OpenScot
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
Recent Developments
• October 2013: SFC’s 2014/2015 Letter of Guidance ackowledged the importance of MOOCs and recommended funding a short term development project to enhance sector’s capacity in “online learning and learning technology.”
• January 2014: Cabinet Secretary for Education announces that SFC have established a “core group” composed of the OU, UHI and the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow & Strathclyde to “look at the benefits of OER and promote online learning resources produced by Scottish universities.”
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
Recent Developments
• April 2014: The OU announce they have received SFC funding to launch a new Open Educational Practices in Scotland project. Steering group includes UHI, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Strathclyde.
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
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.
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
Open Scotland Events
• Second Open Scotland event, hosted by
the ALT Scotland SIG, University of
Edinburgh, 3 June.
• Open Education: from Open Practice to
Open Policy at annual Cetis Conference,
University of Bolton, 17-18 June.
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
“We believe that open policies can develop Scotland’s unique education offering, support social inclusion and inter-institutional collaboration and sharing and enhance quality and sustainability.”
CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.
Licence
Open Scotland: Opening up education across 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 Licence
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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