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Open ScotlandOpening up education across Scotland

Lorna M. Campbell

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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.

CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.

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About Cetis

Partnership between:

• University of Bolton.

• Heriot Watt

University.

• Three staff located in

Scotland.

CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.

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Who do Cetis we work with?

CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.

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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.

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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.

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Cetis Briefing Papers

CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.

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Technical Synthesis

CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.

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Whitepapers

CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.

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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.

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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.

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Open Scotland

CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.

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UNESCO / COL OER Survey & Declaration

CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Napier 3E Framework

CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.

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Glasgow Caledonian University Library OER Guidelines

CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.

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Glasgow Caledonian Academy

• UKOER Evaluation and Synthesis

• OER4Adults

CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Scottish Open Education Declarationhttp://declaration.openscot.net/

CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Open Scotland Blog http://openscot.net/

CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.

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#OpenScot

CLILIP Scotland Annual Conference, Dundee, 2 & 3 June 2014.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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“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.

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Open Scotland: Opening up education across Scotland.

By Lorna M Campbell, [email protected] of Cetis http://www.cetis.ac.uk is licensed under the

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence

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