Open Scotland, Open ALT by Maren Deepwell

Open Scotland – Open ALT

Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh

3 June 2014

Maren DeepwellChief ExecutiveALT@marendeepwell

alt.ac.uk

Working together – national and international open collaboration

◊ The ALT Scotland SIG since 2012◊ A new shared vision for ALT’s future – the

2014-17 strategy http://go.alt.ac.uk/1gP0aFx

◊ Growth of international membership and collaboration across the globe https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/what-we-do/partnerships

alt.ac.uk

Not everything we care about is digital

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Members take a lead in helping ALT to scale up its activities

◊ MOOC SIG and events◊ Open Education SIG, OER conference

and joining the Open Policy Network◊ Collaboration with partners including

Jisc and the Association of Colleges

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Policy and the Scottish Open Education Declaration

◊ Policy across sectors◊ Open policy across nations◊ Sharing openly – how to make it work

at scale?

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FELTAG and ETAG – influencing policy, sharing our expertise

◊ Further Education Learning Technology Action Group and report http://feltag.org.uk/

◊ Education Technology Action Group – open conversation until 23 June http://etag.support/

alt.ac.uk

#altc – the 2014 annual conference, 1-3 September

◊ altc2014 Riding Giants: How to innovate and educate ahead of the wave https://www.alt.ac.uk/alt-conference/altc2014

alt.ac.uk

Special Issue for Research in Learning Technology

◊ Collaboration between Sloan Consortium, the Irish Learning Technology Association and ascilite

◊ Proposed topic: international collaboration across the globe (practice, policy and research)

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#ocTEL – open course in Technology Enhanced Learning

◊ 1000+ registered participants;

◊ Hundreds of open badges earned;

◊ Designed and run by ALT Members

◊ 25%+ of participants from outside of HE

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What’s next?

◊ Open Education Scotland Declaration◊ Continuing to support this community◊ Developing representation for ALT

Members in Scotland◊ Working to support sharing and

collaboration across sectors, across nations

Association for Learning Technology

Registered charity number: 1063519

www.alt.ac.uk @A_L_T

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