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Open.Ed.Supporting engagement with learning technology
through open education
Strategic Vision Where are we now?
• As a truly global university, rooted in Scotland, we seek to benefit society as a whole.
Where do we want to be in 2025?
• We will ensure we make a sustained and enhanced global impact through an approach shaped by innovations and excellence.
Strategic Vision We expect to see
• Many more students benefiting from the Edinburgh experience (largely or entirely) in their own country –supported by deep international partnerships and world- leading online distance learning.
Engaging with learning technology
• Up to 10,000 students, learning online by 2020.
• Through MOOCs and postgraduate online learning programmes.
• Open education embedded across the institution.
University of Edinburgh OER Vision
Three strands building on:
• The history of the Edinburgh Settlement.
• Excellent education and research collections.
• Traditions of the Enlightenment and civic mission.
University of Edinburgh OER Vision
For the common good
• OER exchange to enrich University and the sector.
• Support frameworks to enable staff to share OER created as a routine part of their work.
• Enable staff to find and use high quality teaching materials developed within and beyond the University.
University of Edinburgh OER Vision
Edinburgh at its best
• Showcasing the highest quality learning and teaching.
• Identify collections of high quality learning materials to be published online for flexible use, and made available as open courseware.
• Enable the discovery of these materials to enhance the University’s reputation.
University of Edinburgh OER VisionEdinburgh’s treasures
• Make available collections of unique resources to promote health, economic and cultural well-being.
• Digitise, curate and share major collections of archives, treasures, museum resources to encourage public engagement with learning, study and research.
• Develop policy and infrastructure to ensure OER collections are sustainable.
University of Edinburgh OER Policy
• Approved by Learning and Teaching Committee.
• Encourages staff and students to use, create and publish OERs to enhance the quality of the student experience.
• Help colleagues make informed decisions about creating and using OER in support of the University’s OER Vision.
University of Edinburgh OER Policy
• Adapted from University of Leeds OER Policy.
• Defines OER as:
“Digital resources that are used in the context of teaching and learning, which have been released by the copyright holder under an open licence permitting their use or re-purposing by others.”
open.ed.ac.uk
open.ed.ac.uk
media.ed.ac.uk
Wikimedian in Residence
• One year residency Jan 2016 – Jan 2017.
• Aims to facilitate a sustainable relationship between university & Wikimedia UK to benefit of both communities.
• Training and workshops to further quantity and quality of open knowledge and the University’s commitment to digital literacy.
• thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir
Wikimedia Editathons
• History of Medicine
• Women in Espionage
• Ada Lovelace Day• Day of the Dead • Edinburgh Gothic
Open Scotland is a 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.
openscot.net
Open CultureThe value proposition of embedding open
culture in the context of institutional strategies.
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ContactLorna M. Campbell
OER Liaison – Open Scotland
University of Edinburgh
https://lornamcampbell.wordpress.com/
@lornamcambell
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