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.

1. Open Scotland:
Opening education
initiatives in Scotland
Lorna M. Campbell

2. 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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3. About Cetis
Partnership between:
• University of Bolton,
England.
• Heriot Watt
University, Scotland.
• Three staff located in
Scotland.
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4. 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
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5. Who do Cetis we work with?
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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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
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9. To make active use of technology to meaningfully enhance the learning,
teaching and assessment experience across all modules.
Enhance Extend Empower
Adopting technology in simple
and effective ways to actively
support students and increase
their activity and self-
responsibility
Further use of technology that
facilitates key aspects of
collaborative learning and
assessment through increasing
their choice and control
Developed use of technology
that requires higher order
individual and collaborative
learning that reflects how
knowledge is created and used
in the professional environment
eg. Seminar participation
Provide a discussion board for
students to post follow-up
comments (queries, issues that
seminar to be picked up during
lecture
Encourage more equal
engagement in seminars by
having students take turns (in
pairs or small groups) to
produce a summary of that
online, perhaps with a follow-up
question to be tackled
Have students work in pairs or
small groups to design and lead
online seminars for particular
units, with guidance from tutor
on their proposed topic and
approach
3E levels of examples
Napier 3E Framework
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10. Glasgow Caledonian University Library
OER Guidelines
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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. Wikimedia UK
• Wikimedia in Scotland
- Graeme Arnott
• http://openscot.net/higher-
education/wikimedia-in-
scotland-2014/
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15. 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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16. 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.
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17. Open Scotland
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18. 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.
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19. 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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20. 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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21. 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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22. 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
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23. 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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24. 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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25. An Open Declaration for Scotland?
© UNESCO
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26. Open Scotland Blog http://openscot.net/
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27. #OpenScot
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28. Scottish Open Education Declaration
http://declaration.openscot.net/
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29. Open Scotland Events
• Open Scotland webinar hosted by Jisc RSC Scotland
and facilitated by Cetis and SQA, 2 April 2014.
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• 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.

30. 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.
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31. “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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32. 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/
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