Keynote for the University of the Highlands and Islands Open All Ours event, November 2019.

1. Song School St. Mary, 1897, Phoebe Anna Traquair, CC BY, University of
Edinburgh, https://images.is.ed.ac.uk/luna/servlet/s/perpr8
Into the Open
Exploring the benefits
of
open education and OER
Lorna M. Campbell
Information Services, University of Edinburgh

2. What is open education?

3. What is open education?
• A practice?
• A philosophy?
• A movement?
• A human right?
• A licensing issue?
• A buzz word?
• A way to save
money?
CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Marc Moss,
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lovenotfear/58650808/

4. Cape Town +10, http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/cpt10/

5. “The worldwide OER movement is rooted in the human right to
access high-quality education. The Open Education Movement is
not just about cost savings and easy access to openly licensed
content; it’s about participation and co-creation.”
OER Commons, https://www.oercommons.org/

6. • Open licenses
• Open educational resources
• Open education policy and practice
• Open textbooks
• Open badges
• Open online courses
• MOOCs (a very contested open space.)
• Open data
• Open science
• Open Access scholarly works
• Open source software
• Open standards
• Open government
• Open GLAM
CC BY 2.0, iamdogjunkie, https://www.flickr.com/photos/lamdogjunkie/9728621392/

7. Open educational resources
(OER)

8. "teaching, learning and
research materials in any
medium, digital or
otherwise, that reside in
the public domain or have
been released under an
open license that permits
no-cost access, use,
adaptation and
redistribution by others
with no or limited
restrictions.”
~ UNESCO
UNESCO OER, http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/open-
educational-resources/

9. 2nd OER World Congress, CC BY, Slovenian Press Agency

10. United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org

11. Qian Tang, CC BY, Slovenian Press Agency
“To meet the education challenges,
we can’t use the traditional way. In
remote and developing areas,
particularly for girls and women,
OER are a crucial, crucial means to
reach SDGs. OER are the key.”

12. Ljubljana OER Action Plan, https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/ljubljana_oer_action_plan_2017.pdf

13. Open education and OER
at the
University of Edinburgh

14. University of Edinburgh OER Vision
• The history of the Edinburgh
Settlement.
• Excellent education and research
collections.
• Traditions of the Enlightenment
and civic mission.
CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, Centre for Research Collections,
https://flic.kr/p/snkn7o

15. Open.Ed, http://open.ed.ac.uk/edinburghs-oers/

16. University of Edinburgh OER Policy
• http://open.ed.ac.uk/about/
• Approved by Learning and Teaching
Committee in January 2016.
• Informative and permissive.
• Encourages staff and students to use,
create and publish OERs to enhance the
quality of the student experience.
• Helps colleagues make informed
decisions about creating and using OER.
CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, Centre for Research Collections,
https://flic.kr/p/fcwNdT

17. Open.Ed, https://open.ed.ac.uk/

18. MVM OER, http://open.ed.ac.uk/edinburghs-
oers/?filter=college-of-medicine-and-veterinary-medicine

19. Tomas Sanders, Open Content Curation Intern, CC BY, Lorna M. Campbell

20. Sustainable access to
resources

21. Copyright Debt, https://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/melissa/tag/copyright-debt/

22. Open online courses

23. Free short online courses, https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/online-learning/free-short-courses

24. MOOCs,
https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/o
nline-learning/free-short-
courses/subjects

25. Open Media Bank, https://media.ed.ac.uk/channel/Open%2BMedia%2BBank/

26. MicroMasters Programmes, https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/online-learning/micromasters

27. Diversifying the curriculum
with OER

28. LGBT+ Healthcare 101, http://open.ed.ac.uk/lgbt-healthcare-101/

29. LGBT+ Issues - A resource for Secondary Schools, http://open.ed.ac.uk/lgbt-healthcare-101/

30. Developing digital skills

31. 23 Things for Digital Knowledge, https://www.23things.ed.ac.uk/

32. Co-Creation

33. GeoSciences Outreach Course, https://www.ed.ac.uk/geosciences/undergraduate/geoscience-outreach

34. @ University of Edinburgh

35. University of Edinburgh on TES Resources, https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/OpenEd

36. The Sea Level Story, CC BY SA, Roseanne Smith https://open.ed.ac.uk/the-sea-level-story-geoscience/

37. Wikimedia in the classroom

38. Wikipedians at the Eurostemcell Wikithon, CC BY-SA 4.0, Endoderm,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EuroStemCell_Wikithon_2016.jpg

39. Wikipedia in the Classroom - Interview with Aine Kavanagh,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EuroStemCell_Wikithon_2016.jpg

40. High-grade serous carcinoma, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-grade_serous_carcinoma

41. The University of Edinburgh Wikimedian in
Residence Project,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University
_of_Edinburgh
Wikimedian in Residence Blog,
https://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/
Wikimedian in Residence Channel, Media
Hopper Create,
https://media.ed.ac.uk/channel/Wikimedian%20in
%20Residence%20Channel/51020161
Ewan McAndrew, Ewan.McAndrew@ed.ac.uk

42. Wikimedia UK, https://wikimedia.org.uk/

43. OER assignments

44. An Introduction to Patient Centred Care, CC BY NC SA, Paul Knight,
https://open.ed.ac.uk/introduction-to-patient-centred-care/

45. An Introduction to Classical Japanese Orthography, CC BY, Adam Clark
https://open.ed.ac.uk/introduction-to-classical-japanese-orthography/

46. Digital Futures for Learning: An OER
assignment, http://open.ed.ac.uk/digital-
futures-for-learning-an-oer-assignment/

47. Opening access to research

48. Innovating with Open Knowledge, https://openinnovation.is.ed.ac.uk/

49. Building community with
academic blogging

50. Blogs.Ed https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/

51. Blogging to Build your Professional Profile, CC BY, Lorna M. Campbell, University of Edinburgh,
https://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/professional-blogging/

52. Teaching Matters Mini-series: Blogging to build
community – Stories from Nursing Studies,
http://www.teaching-matters-blog.ed.ac.uk/mini-
series-blogging-to-build-community-stories-from-
nursing-studies/

53. Teaching Matters Mini-series: Blogging to build
community – Stories from the Vet School,
http://www.teaching-matters-blog.ed.ac.uk/mini-
series-blogging-to-build-community-stories-from-the-
vet-school/

54. Stories from Vet School,
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/vetstudentlife/

55. Engaging with content and
collections

56. Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas, CC BY, Centre for Research Collections, University of Edinburgh, https://flic.kr/p/DCkkTB

57. Iceland, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland

59. State of the Commons, CC BY, Creative Commons

60. Witches, https://witches.is.ed.ac.uk/

61. Witch Finder General, Emma Carroll, CC BY Ewan McAndrew

62. https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/scotland/1849701/new-interactive-map-shows-
where-men-and-women-accused-of-witchcraft-lived-in-the-north-and-north-east/

63. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/opinion/sunday/thar-be-witches-and-us.html

64. The Scotsman, https://www.scotsman.com/heritage/map-of-scots-women-accused-of-
witchcraft-published-for-first-time-1-5009814

65. Conclusion

67. Martin Tasker, Open Content Curation Intern. CC BY, Lorna M. Campbell

68. “Open education has played such an integral part of my life so far,
and has given me access to knowledge that would otherwise have
been totally inaccessible to me. It has genuinely changed my life,
and likely the lives of many others. This freedom of knowledge can
allow us to tear down the barriers that hold people back from
getting a world class education – be those barriers class, gender or
race. Open education is the future, and I am both proud of my
university for embracing it, and glad that I can contribute even in a
small way. Because every resource we release could be a life
changed. And that makes it all worth it.
~ Martin Tasker, Open Content Curation Intern

69. Contact
Open.Ed
open.ed@ed.ac.uk
http://open.ed.ac.uk/
@OpenEdEdinburgh
CC BY, Lorna M. Campbell,
University of Edinburgh,
unless otherwise indicated
Lorna M. Campbell
lorna.m.campbell@ed.ac.uk
http://lornamcampbell.org/
@LornaMCampbell
Charlie Farley
stephanie.farley@ed.ac.uk
@SFarley_Charlie