Open Scotland

Open Scotland: Opening up education in Scotland

Lorna M. Campbell

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.

Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

http://www.cetis.ac.uk/



About Cetis

Partnership between:

• University of Bolton,

England.

• Heriot Watt

University, Scotland.

• Three staff located in

Scotland.


Who do Cetis we work with?


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

Community engagement

• Cetis website and blogs

• Active social media presence

• Event amplification

• Webinars

• F2F events

• Public speaking


Cetis Conference

Building The Digital Institution:

Technological Innovation in Universities and

Colleges

17th – 18th June 2014

University of Bolton


Cetis Briefing Papers


Technical Synthesis


Whitepapers


Cetis and Jisc

• Cetis have a long association with Jisc, http:/jisc.ac.uk

• Formerly an F/HE quango, now a charity owned by Universities

UK, the Association of Colleges and GuildHE.

• Funded Cetis as a project 2001 – 2005 & an Innovation Support

Centre 2006 – 2013.

• Provided Jisc with strategic technical input and guidance.

• Represented the Jisc community on international standards

bodies.

• Supported the Jisc development programmes.


http://www.jisc.ac.uk/

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/


http://www.jorum.ac.uk/

Scottish Open Education Developments

• Curriculum for Excellence

• Re:Source FE OER Repository

• Edinburgh Napier University’s 3E Framework

• Glasgow Caledonian University Library’s OER Guidelines

• Coursera and FutureLearn MOOCs

• Learner Journey Project

• Open Badges for Scottish Education Group

• Wikimedian in residence at National Library of Scotland

• OKFN Scotland


Curriculum for Excellence

• New curriculum introduced in 2010 which aims to

“ensure that all children and young people in Scotland

develop the attributes, knowledge and skills they will need

to flourish in life, learning and work.”

• Curriculum for Excellence based on developing 4 capacities,

helping children to become:

• Successful learners

• Confident individuals

• Responsible citizens

• Effective contributors


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.”


Napier 3E Framework


Glasgow Caledonian University Library OER Guidelines


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.


Learner Journey Project

• Scottish Government led project aiming to:

“empower learners to make better decisions by making it easier

for them to see what they have achieved so far, what learning

opportunities are available to them and how they can get to

where they want to be in the future.”

• Commissioned Learning Journey Data Jam.

© Crown Copyright. OGL


Open Badges

• Open Badges in Scottish Education Group supported by Jisc

RSC Scotland.

• SQA formally announced it’s intention to work with Mozilla

Foundation and OBSEG to:

“investigate the opportunities presented by an innovative

approach to displaying individuals’ learning

accomplishments online.”


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.

• 2nd year project on Glasgow Architects on Wikipedia at

Glasgow School of Art (Robyne Erica Calvert & David Buri).

• Many of these developments are being driven by the library

sector.


Open Knowledge Foundation

• OKF is a non profit organisation founded in Cambridge in 2004

which promotes open knowledge, open data and open content.

• Local OKFN Scotland Group established.

• Regular free and informal Meetups in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

• Recent topics: Glasgow Future Cities Project, Open Street Map,

Open Badges, the Cabinet Office Open Standards Hub, the

Digital Commonwealth project, publishing digital content at the

NLS, Edinburgh Datashare, linked data vocabularies for cultural

heritage.


Open Scotland

Open Scotland is an 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.


Open 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


Lightning Talks and Case Studies

• Lightning talks on

• Open data

• Open Source in education

• MOOCs

• UKOER

• Case studies from

• Scandinavia

• Wales


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 Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjG8T1xbhEo




“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.”


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.


An Open Declaration for Scotland?

© UNESCO


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.


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.


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


http://openscot.wordpress.com/

#OpenScot

Forthcoming Open Scotland Activities

• First draft of an Open Scotland Declaration, end Feb.

• Update Benefits of Open Briefing Paper, due Feb.

• Open Scotland webinar hosted by Jisc RSC Scotland and facilitated by Cetis and SQA, 2 April 2014.

• Second Open Scotland event, 3 June 2014, tbc.

• DataFest Scotland, 12 – 14 June 2014, tbc, organised by Wikimedia UK, OpenStreetMap, Open Knowledge Foundation Glasgow, National Library of ScotlandOpen Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

Recent policy developments

“I believe that Massive Open Online Courses have the potential to change the way that learning is delivered. I am aware that the Open University and the UHI already use open learning resources and exploit the power of online curriculum delivery. A number of our institutions are also beginning to exploit MOOCS. I would ask the SFC to take forward a short term project to further develop and enhance the sector’s capacity in online pedagogy and learning technology.”

~ Scottish Government’s Letter of Guidance


Recent policy developments“I am very encouraged by the potential of massive open online

courses – short courses delivered online that can be taken by anyone,

anywhere. Of course, we must ensure quality of provision, however,

free resources such as these have great potential to provide pathways

to formal learning and widen participation in higher education.

That is why I have indicated to the Scottish Funding Council that, in

supporting this new work, they should facilitate the best open practice

in Scotland and enhance the sector’s capacity and reputation for

developing publicly available online learning materials.”

~ Mike Russell, Minister for EducationFuture of HE in Scotland and the UK


How to get involved…

• 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.Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

“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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