What I Know Is - Open Scotland

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.

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



About Cetis

Partnership between:

• University of Bolton,

England.

• Heriot Watt

University, Scotland.

• Three staff located in

Scotland.


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


Who do Cetis we work with?


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

• 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


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.


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 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

• Wikimedia in Scotland

- Graeme

Arnott

• http://openscot.net/hig

her-education/wikimed

ia-in-scotland-2014

/


http://openscot.net/higher-education/wikimedia-in-scotland-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.


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


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 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 Scotland, What I Know Is Symposium, 19th March 2014.

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




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 Blog http://openscot.net/


http://openscot.net/



#OpenScot


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


http://declaration.openscot.net/

http://declaration.openscot.net/

Open Scotland Events

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


“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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by Lorna M Campbell, [email protected]

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