A guide to policy and practice around open education and open educational resources in Scotland and...

INTO THE OPENa critical overview of open education policy

and practice in Scotland

The Road to Open in Scotland Joe Wilson

Co-Founder Open Scotland JoeWilsons.Net Ltd

What I am going to consider -

• What are open educational resources ?

• What do UNESCO think ?

• What is holding us back in Scotland ?

Generally - A quick guide to policy and practice around open education and open educational resources

OER & ukoer Vision

“...digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research.”

Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD, 2007)

“The UK must have a core of open access learning resources organised in a coherent way to support on-line and blended learning by all higher education institutions and to make it more widely available in non-HE environments.”

Sir Ron Cooke (as Chairman of JISC, 2008)

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

Original Open Scotland partners

Now supported by

An active UK community around #OER Conferences

• Perception that open education is peripheral to Scot Gov priorities.

• Lack of a statistical evidence base supporting impact of open education on learners.

• Scottish Open Education Declaration brought to attention of Cabinet Secretaries for Education by ALT Scotland SIG.

• Encouraging but non-commital.

• Attracted global interest and model has been adopted in a number of other countries including Slovenia , Morocco

http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2017/03/7843/0

http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2016/09/9494/downloads

• SFC Funded, 2014 – 2017. • Aims to facilitate best practice in open education in Scotland.• Activities include running workshops & events, providing expert guidance, collating

case studies, supporting open practice communities.• Particularly successful in engaging with third sector. • Learning Design and Thinking About Open workshops running throughout

September.• Open courses launched:

• Becoming an Open Educator http://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/course/view.php?id=2274 .

• Understanding Parkinson’s with Parkinson’s UK.• My Seaweed Looks Weird, with UHI & Scottish Association for Marine Science.

• OEPS Blog https://oepscotland.org/• OEPS Project http://www.oeps.ac.uk/

Glasgow Caledonian University

• Approved interim OER Policy. • Undertaking advocacy and OER awareness training. • Have established EdShare repository

• https://edshare.gcu.ac.uk/

• 300 resources deposited in first 6 months.• 40% are CC licensed.

University of Edinburgh

• OER Vision building on• History of the Edinburgh Settlement.• Excellent education and research collections.• Traditions of the Enlightenment and civic mission.

• 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.

http://open.ed.ac.uk/

https://media.ed.ac.uk/

https://www.tes.com/member/OpenEd

https://sketchfab.com/openededinburgh

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:OpenEdEdinburgh

https://www.flickr.com/photos/143662088@N08/

https://www.youtube.com/user/OpenEdinburghUni

open.ed.ac.uk

Wikimedian in Residence• 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.

• Encourage more women editors to engage with Wikimedia.

• Enhance coverage and prestige of articles about women.

• WiR blog http://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/• University of Edinburgh & OER16

awarded Wikimedia UK’s 2016 Partnership of the Year Award.

University of Dundee

• No OER policy as yet but hoping to progress one.

• But started sharing culture and training staff https://sites.dundee.ac.uk/ctil/

• Sharing student developed content on Vimeo and Flickr channels.

• Showcase of OER from Masters in Medical Art students.

• School of Dentistry sharing dental models on Sketchfab.

MOOCs

FE Sector • FE sector is bedding down after upheaval of regionalization.

• Merging institutional systems & creating infrastructure to share is a priority.

• Re:Source repository hosted by Jorum moved to http://www.resourceshare.ac.uk/

• More interest in walled garden approach to sharing, e.g. Blended Learning Consortium led by Heart of Worcestershire College. cf COLEG initiative.

• Sector is accepting of open educational practice and OER in theory, but cautious in actual practice.

FELTAG UK

• Further Education Learning Technology Action Group

• Blended Learning Essentials on Future Learn Search #Flble on Twitter

Jisc• Announced retirement

of Jorum in 2015.

• Service will closed 30th

September 2016.

• Some content will be migrated to the new Jisc Content and App Store.

• …

https://store.jisc.ac.uk/

MAY 2017 The Store Platform

The Store Platform

Digital Launchpad

Digital Capabilities

Store ServicesApplication programming interface (API) for resources, users, version control, reviews, comments and download metrics

PlaylistsCollate resources into groups, which can be shared as a single entity

Diagnostic Tool BuilderSurvey creation with outcome based delivery of playlists

Raw Content Storage

API Authentication Service

Integration Service

Curation and RemixUpload and management of resources

Other Services

Complex Content Storage

APIs

Store FrontSearch interfaces for content delivery and discovery

Other Services and Content

Learner Analytics Services

Learning Records Warehouse

Student Analytics App

Other Jisc Services…

APIs

Infrastructure

Components

justin.haylock@jisc.ac.uk Justin Haylock

Lead Developer – Senior Innovations Developer

ALT Scotland SIG

• Supports Open Scotland.

• Liaises with OEPS.

• Brings together policy makers.

• Raises awareness of open education at Scot Govlevel.

• Hosts annual events to showcase use of education technology and open education across sector.

https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/what-we-do/alt-strategy

National Library of Scotland• Continue to review open licensing

policy with a view to making more content openly available.

• CC-BY on images up to 1000px, core metadata & OCR (unless library doesn’t own copyright).

• CC-0 for metadata supplied to Europeana

• CC-BY-NC-SA on images > 1000px, extended metadata (such as long form descriptions) & manual transcription.

• Planning to load more images on to WikiCommons.

10th anniversary

5th anniversary

SECOND WORLD OER CONGRESS LJUBLJANA OER ACTION PLAN 2017

1. Building the capacity of users to find, re-use, create and share OER

2. Language & Cultural issues

3. Ensuring inclusive and equitable access to quality OER

4. Developing sustainability models

5. Developing supportive policy environments

http://oerhub.net/

Call for participation: UK Open TextbooksThe Hewlett Foundation has provided funding for a research project which will be led by OER Hub at The Open University (UK). The focus of the work will be the use of open textbooks in the UK.

Developing models of open, online educationThe “OOFAT” project is currently looking at different modelsof open, online, flexible and technology-enhanced learning (OOFAT)

in higher education. It’s conducted on behalf of theInternational Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE),

What Next for Open Educational Resources ?

With thanks to...

Slide 1 https://unsplash.com/@asarodger CC BY

Slide 2 Lawrence OP, CC BY NC ND 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/paullew/14734020595/

Slide33 @BryanMMathers, CC-BY-SA ALT https://flic.kr/p/RYDPXS

Slide 39 Brexit http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=165944&picture=brexit C

Slide 40 What Next for Open Educational Resources https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps5wIh_HrkI Joe Wilson CC BY Built with Lumen5

Slide 41 28 Lorna M. Campbell, CC BY.

Sarah Cornelius, University of Aberdeen; Sam Coulter, University of West Scotland; Linda Creanor, Glasgow Caledonian University; Kerr Gardiner, University of Glasgow; Marion Kelt, Glasgow Caledonian University; Natalie Lafferty, University of Dundee; Kenjij Lamb, College Development Network; Joe Wilson, joewilsons.net

Photographs

ContactsLorna M. Campbell, lorna.m.campbell@ed.ac.uk | lorna.m.campbell@icloud.com

Joe Wilson , joe.wilson@joewilsons.net http://www.joewilsons.net @joecar

Open Scotland http://openscot.net/ | Open World http://lornamcampbell.org/