Webinar by Lorna M Campbell of Cetis and Joe Wilson of SQA on the Open Scotland Initiative http://openscot.net/ and the Scottish Open Education Declaration http://declaration.openscot.net/

1. Open
Scotland
Lorna M. Campbell, Cetis
&
Joe Wilson, SQA

2. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_Educational_Resources

3. http://oerconsortium.org/

4. http://www.jorum.ac.uk/

5. http://www.merlot.org/

6. http://www.oercommons.org/

7. http://www.ocwconsortium.org/

8. 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.

10. 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/

11. OER Visualisation Project by Martin Hawksey, http://mashe.hawksey.info/2012/02/oer-
visualisation-project-fin-day-40-5/

12. 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

13. 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.
• http://openscot.net/event-
reports/open-scotland-report-
and-actions/

14. #OpenScot

15. An open
declaration
for
Scotland?

16. Scottish Open Education Declaration
http://declaration.openscot.net/

17. Paris OER Declaration
C. Reinforce the development of strategies and
policies on OER: Promote the development of
specific policies for the production and use of
OER within wider strategies for advancing
education.

18. Scottish Open Education Declaration
C. Reinforce the development of strategies and
policies for open assessment practices, open
educational resources and open online
courses. Support the adoption of open licences for
all publicly funded educational content. Promote
the development and use of open educational
resources within wider strategies for advancing
education.

19. Scottish Open Education Declaration
K. Promote the adoption of procurement policies
that give equal consideration to open source
software and openly licensed materials, and
support the development in education and related
sectors of processes and practices to provide a
level playing field for open source software and
open education resources in procurement.

20. Open Scotland Events
• 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.

21. 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.

22. “Open 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/4.0/