Presentation for the CDN Librarians development Network "Open Developments in Scotland" event, Stirling, 5th February 2014.

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

2. What is Cetis?
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Centre for Education Technology, Interoperability and
Standards http://www.cetis.ac.uk/
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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.
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

3. About Cetis
Partnership between:
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University of Bolton,
England.
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Heriot Watt
University, Scotland.
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Three staff located in
Scotland.
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

4. Who do Cetis we work with?
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

5. Areas of expertise
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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
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Digital repositories
Standards development
Interoperability testing
Horizon scanning
Technical advisory &
strategic consultancy
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

6. Community engagement
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Cetis website and blogs
Active social media presence
Event amplification
Webinars
F2F events
Public speaking
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

7. Cetis Conference
Building The Digital Institution:
Technological Innovation in Universities and
Colleges
17th – 18th June 2014
University of Bolton
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

8. Cetis Briefing Papers
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

9. Technical
Synthesis
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

10. Whitepapers
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

11. Cetis and Jisc
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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.
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Funded Cetis as a project 2001 – 2005 & an Innovation
Support Centre 2006 – 2013.
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Provided Jisc with strategic technical input and guidance.
Represented the Jisc community on international standards
bodies.
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Supported the Jisc development programmes.
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

12. UKOER Programme
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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/
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

13. Scottish Open Education Developments
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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
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

14. Curriculum for Excellence
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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.”
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Curriculum for Excellence based on developing 4 capacities, helping
children to become:
• Successful learners
• Confident individuals
• Responsible citizens
• Effective contributors
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

15. Re:Source
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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.”
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

16. Napier 3E Framework
3E levels of examples
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 Further use of technology that Developed use of technology
and effective ways to actively
facilitates key aspects of
that requires higher order
support students and increase
individual and collaborative
their activity and selfcollaborative learning and
learning that reflects how
responsibility
assessment through increasing knowledge is created and used
their choice and control
in the professional environment
eg. Seminar participation
Provide a discussion board for
students to post follow-up
comments (queries, issues that
Open
Encourage more equal
Have students work in pairs or
engagement in seminars by small groups to design and lead
having students take turns (in
online seminars for particular
pairs or small groups) to
units, with guidance from tutor
seminar to be picked up during
produce a summary of that
on their proposed topic and
approach
lecture
online, perhaps with a follow-up
question to be tackled
Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

17. Glasgow Caledonian University Library
OER Guidelines
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

18. MOOCs
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University of Edinburgh have run a number of Coursera
courses attracting over 300,000 students in one year.
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Edinburgh, Glasgow and Strathclyde are FutureLearn
partners.
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

19. Learner Journey Project
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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.”
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Commissioned Learning Journey Data Jam.
© Crown Copyright. OGL
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

20. Open Badges
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Open Badges in Scottish Education Group supported by Jisc RSC
Scotland.
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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.”
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

21. Wikimedia UK
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Wikimedian-in-residence appointed to the National Library of
Scotland in 2013 (Ally Crockford).
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Women in Science editathon, Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Scottish Women on Wikipedia, Glasgow Women’s Library and
Graeme Arnott.
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2nd year project on Glasgow Architects on Wikipedia at Glasgow
School of Art (Robyne Erica Calvert & David Buri).
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Many of these developments are being driven by the library sector.
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

22. Open Knowledge Foundation
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OKF is a non profit organisation founded in Cambridge in 2004
which promotes open knowledge, open data and open content.
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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.
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

23. 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.
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

24. Open Scotland
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

25. Open Scotland Summit
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Brought together senior
managers, policy makers and
key thinkers to explore the
development of open
education policy and practice
in Scotland.
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National Museum of Scotland,
Edinburgh, June 2013.
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

26. Open Scotland Participants
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Scottish Government
Scottish Qualifications
Authority
Education Scotland
Scottish Funding
Council
Quality Assurance
Agency
College Development
Network
National Library of
Scotland
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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
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

27. Lightning Talks and Case Studies
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Lightning talks on
• Open data
• Open Source in education
• MOOCs
• UKOER
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Case studies from
• Scandinavia
• Wales
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

28. 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
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

29. “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.”
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

30. How can openness help to address
strategic priorities and challenges?
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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
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

31. 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.
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

32. An Open Declaration for Scotland?
© UNESCO
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

33. Open Scotland Actions
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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.
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

34. Open Scotland Deliverables
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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.
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

35. Open Scotland Blog
http://openscot.wordpress.com
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

36. #OpenScot

37. Forthcoming Open Scotland Activities
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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 Scotland
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

38. 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
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

39. 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 Education
Future of HE in Scotland and the UK
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

40. 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.

41. “The opposite of open is not closed, the
opposite of open is broken.”
Cable Green
Director of Global Learning,
Creative Commons
Open Developments in Scotland, College Development Network, 5th Feb 2014.

42. Licence
Open Scotland: Opening up education 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/