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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.
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About Cetis
Partnership between:
• University of Bolton,
England.
• Heriot Watt
University, Scotland.
• Three staff located in
Scotland.
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Who do Cetis we work with?
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Areas of expertise
• Learning analytics
• Course data standards
• Assessment standards
• eTextbook standards
• ePortfolios
• Enterprise architecture
• Open educational resources
• MOOCs
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• 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
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Cetis Conference
Building The Digital Institution:
Technological Innovation in Universities and
Colleges
17th – 18th June 2014
University of Bolton
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Cetis Briefing Papers
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Technical Synthesis
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Whitepapers
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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.
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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/
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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
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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
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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.”
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Napier 3E Framework
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Glasgow Caledonian University Library OER Guidelines
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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.
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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
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Open Scotland
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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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Lightning Talks and Case Studies
• Lightning talks on
• Open data
• Open Source in education
• MOOCs
• UKOER
• Case studies from
• Scandinavia
• Wales
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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=
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“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.”
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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?
© UNESCO
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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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#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
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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
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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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Licence
Open Scotland: 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 4.0 Unported Licence
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/