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Presentation about the Open Scotland initiative, presented at "What I Know Is" Symposium on Online Collaborative Knowledge Building at the University of Stirling, March 2014.
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Open Scotland: Opening education initiatives 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 Scotland, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 2014.
About Cetis
Partnership between:
• University of Bolton,
England.
• Heriot Watt
University, Scotland.
• Three staff located in
Scotland.
Open Scotland, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 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
Open Scotland, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 2014.
Who do Cetis we work with?
Open Scotland, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 2014.
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.
Open Scotland, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 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/
Open Scotland, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 2014.
Scottish Open Education Developments
• Re:Source FE OER Repository
• Edinburgh Napier University’s 3E Framework
• Glasgow Caledonian University Library’s OER Guidelines
• Coursera and FutureLearn MOOCs
• Open Badges for Scottish Education Group
• Wikimedia UK
• OKF Scotland
• Learning Resource Metadata Initiative
Open Scotland, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 2014.
Napier 3E Framework
Open Scotland, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 2014.
Glasgow Caledonian University Library OER Guidelines
Open Scotland, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 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.
Open Scotland, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 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.”
Open Scotland, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 2014.
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.”
Open Scotland, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 2014.
Wikimedia UK
• Wikimedia in Scotland
- Graeme
Arnott
• http://openscot.net/hig
her-education/wikimed
ia-in-scotland-2014
/
Open Scotland, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 2014.
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, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 2014.
LRMI
• Gates Foundation funded initiative led by Creative
Commons and the Association of Educational Publishers.
• Builds on Schema.org.
• Aims to make it easier to publish, discover, and deliver
educational resources on the web.
• Enables the description of educationally important
properties of resources to be marked-up in web pages in a
manner that is easily understood by search engines.
• Cetis leading project for Creative Commons.
Open Scotland, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 2014.
Open Scotland
Open Scotland, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 2014.
Open Scotland
Open Scotland is a collaborative, 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.
Open Scotland, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 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.
Open Scotland, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 2014.
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
Open Scotland, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 2014.
Lightning Talks and Case Studies
• Lightning talks on
• Open data
• Open Source in education
• MOOCs
• UKOER
• Case studies from
• Scandinavia
• Wales
Open Scotland, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 2014.
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 Scotland, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 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
Open Scotland, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 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.
Open Scotland, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 2014.
An Open Declaration for Scotland?
© UNESCO
Open Scotland, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 2014.
Open Scotland Blog http://openscot.net/
Open Scotland, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 2014.
#OpenScot
Open Scotland, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 2014.
Scottish Open Education Declarationhttp://declaration.openscot.net/
Open Scotland, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 2014.
Open Scotland Events
• Open Scotland webinar hosted by Jisc RSC Scotland and facilitated by Cetis and SQA, 2 April 2014.
Open Scotland, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 2014.
• OER14 Conference, University of Newcastle, 28-29 May 2014.
• Second Open Scotland event, hosted by the ALT Scotland SIG, University of Edinburgh, 3 June 2014.
How to get involved…
• Keep an eye on the Open
Scotland blog.
• Comment on the Scottish
Open Education Declaration
• Volunteer a post for the Open
Scotland blog.
• Follow the #OpenScot hashtag
on twitter.
• Look out for webinars and
events.
Open Scotland, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 2014.
“The opposite of open is not closed, the opposite of open is broken.”
Cable Green
Director of Global Learning,Creative Commons
Open Scotland, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 2014.
Licence
Open Scotland: Open education initiatives in 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/3.0/Open Scotland, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 2014.
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