Open Education event - Open Scotland

Open Scotland:Opening up education in Scotland

Lorna M. Campbell & Joe Wilson

What is Cetis?

• Centre for Education 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.

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Open Scotland

Open Scotland is an initiative that aims to raise awareness of open education and explore the potential of open policy and practice to benefit all sectors of Scottish education.

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Open Scotland

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Scottish Open Education Developments

• Edinburgh Napier University’s 3E Framework

• Glasgow Caledonian University Library’s OER Guidelines

• University of Edinburgh’s MOOCs

• Re:Source FE OER Repository

• Curriculum for Excellence

• Open Badges for Scottish Education Group

• Wikimedian in residence at National Library of Scotland

• Learner Journey Project

• Smarter Scotland Strategic Objective

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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.

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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

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Open Scotland Keynote

“Open Education: The

Business and Policy Case for

OER”

by Dr Cable Green,

Creative Commons, Director

of Global Learning.

http

://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

AjG8T1xbhEo

© Martin Hawksey

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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

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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.

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An Open Declaration for Scotland?

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Open Scotland Actions

• Action 1 – Establish working group, similar to the Nordic countries, to stimulate open education research and inform future Government white papers.

• Action 2 – Learn from nations that are further ahead of Scotland in promoting the open agenda. Work with the other devolved nations in the UK.

• Action 3 – Use the working group to focus on key Government priorities and agendas, e.g. learner journeys, articulation, work based learning, knowledge transfer. 

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Open Scotland Deliverables

• Key Deliverable 1 - Position paper providing evidence of the benefits of openness with examples of how these can impact on Government priorities.

• Key Deliverable 2 - A Scottish Open Learning Declaration.

• Key Deliverable 3 - Government policy on open education. This will require stakeholder groups to state how they will engage with and contribute to the implementation of the policy.  

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Open Scotland Blog http://openscot.wordpress.com

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“The opposite of open is not closed, the opposite of open is broken.”

Cable Green

Director of Global Learning,Creative Commons

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Licence

Open Scotland: Policies and strategies for opening up education in Scotland

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

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/