Guest lecture for the University of Edinburgh's Introduction to Online Distance Learning staff development course. October 2016

1. Open Education
&
Co-Creation
Lorna M. Campbell
OER Liaison – Open Scotland, University of Edinburgh

2. Lorna M. Campbell
@lornamcampbell
http://lornamcampbell.org/
lorna.m.campbell@ed.ac.uk
lorna.m.campbell@ed.ac.uk

3. 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

4. • What is open education?
• Open educational resources (OER)
• Open educational practice
• Open education at the University of Edinburgh
• Open education and co-creation case study

5. What is open education?
• A movement?
• A practice?
• A human right?
• A philosophy?
• A licensing issue?
• A buzz word?
• A way to save
money?

6. “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. Open Educational Resources (OER) offer
opportunities for systemic change in teaching and learning
content through engaging educators in new participatory
processes and effective technologies for engaging with
learning.”
- OER Commons

7. Open education can encompass
• Open educational resources
• Open textbooks
• Open licensing
• Open assessment practices
• Open badges
• Open online courses
• MOOCs (debatably)
• Open data
• Open Access scholarly works
• Open source software
• Open standards

8. What do we mean by open?

9. “What do we mean when we use the word? Free?
Open access? Open enrollment? Open data? Openly-
licensed materials, as in open educational resources
or open source software? Open for discussion? Open
for debate? Open to competition? Open for
business? Open-ended intellectual exploration?”
- What Do We Mean By Open Education
Audrey Watters

10. Gratis:
without price
Libre:
without restriction

11. Free as in beer / Free as in speech

12. But there is a third way….

13. Free as in puppies!

15. "OER are teaching, learning, and research resources
that reside in the public domain or have been
released under an intellectual property license that
permits their free use and re-purposing by others.
Open educational resources include full courses,
course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming
videos, tests, software, and any other tools,
materials, or techniques used to support access to
knowledge.”
~ The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

16. "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

17. “Open educational
resources (OER) are digital
resources that are used in
the context of teaching
and learning (e.g. course
material, images, video,
multimedia resources,
assessment items, etc.),
which have been released
by the copyright holder
under an open licence
(e.g. Creative Commons)
permitting their use or re-
purposing (re-use,
revision, remixing,
redistribution) by others.”
~ University of Edinburgh

18. What is OER?
https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/What_is_OER%3F

20. CC licences are non-exclusive
CC licences are irrevocable
https://creativecommons.org/faq/

22. The 5 Rs of OER
http://opencontent.org/definition/

23. Open Education Practice

24. Open educational practices are teaching techniques
that draw upon open technologies and high-quality
OER to facilitate collaborative and flexible learning.
They may involve students participating in online, peer
production communities, any context where access to
educational opportunity through freely available
online content and services is the norm. Such activities
may include, the creation, use and repurposing of
OER. OEP can also include the open sharing of
teaching practices and aim "to raise the quality of
education and training and innovate educational
practices on an institutional, professional and
individual level".

25. Open education is not limited to just open educational
resources. It also draws upon open technologies that
facilitate collaborative, flexible learning and the open
sharing of teaching practices that empower educators
to benefit from the best ideas of their colleagues. It
may also grow to include new approaches to
assessment, accreditation and collaborative learning'.
~ The Cape Town Open Education Declaration
http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/

26. • Production, management, use and reuse of open
educational resources.
• Developing and applyingopen/public pedagogies in
teaching practice.
• Open learning and gaining access to open learning
opportunities.
• Practising open scholarship, to encompass open access
publication, open science and open research.
• Open sharing of teaching ideas and know-how.
• Using open technologies (web-based platforms,
applications and services) in an educational context.
~ What are 'open educational practices'?
https://oersynth.pbworks.com/w/page/51685003/OpenPracticesWhat

30. University of Edinburgh OER Vision
Three strands building on:
• The history of the Edinburgh Settlement.
• Excellent education and research collections.
• Traditions of the Enlightenment and civic mission.

31. University of Edinburgh OER Vision
For the common good
• OER exchange to enrich University and the sector.
• Support frameworks to enable staff to share OER
created as a routine part of their work.
• Enable staff to find and use high quality teaching
materials developed within and beyond the
University.

32. University of Edinburgh OER Vision
Edinburgh at its best
• Showcasing the highest quality learning and teaching.
• Identify collections of high quality learning materials
to be published online for flexible use, and made
available as open courseware.
• Enable the discovery of these materials to enhance
the University’s reputation.

33. University of Edinburgh OER Vision
Edinburgh’s treasures
• Make available collections of unique resources to
promote health, economic and cultural well-being.
• Digitise, curate and share major collections of
archives, treasures, museum resources to encourage
public engagement with learning, study and research.
• Develop policy and infrastructure to ensure OER
collections are sustainable.

34. University of Edinburgh 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.

38. Wikimedian in Residence
• 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/

39. OER and Co-Creation Case Study
Open Content Curation
Internship

42. 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.
~ A Student’s Perspective on Open Education by Martin Tasker
http://www.ede.is.ed.ac.uk/wordpress/a-students-perspective-on-open-
education/

43. Open Education is a large part of the reason I’m at
Edinburgh studying physics, and I firmly believe that
it is one of the keys to widening participation in
education in a meaningful way. The proliferation of
the internet among all classes in society means that a
savvy university can reach those that would
previously have had little access to education beyond
their school years. And with our work in OERs, we
can hopefully feed back some of the expertise of our
academics into the classroom, raising the standard of
teaching and taking some of the pressure off
extremely overworked teachers.
~ Wrapping Up: My Time as an Open Content Curator Intern by
Martin Tasker
http://www.ede.is.ed.ac.uk/wordpress/wrapping-up-my-time-as-
an-open-content-curator-intern/

44. • Open (red neon) – Marc Moss CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lovenotfear/58650808/
• Open (red road sign) – iamdogjunkie CC BY 2.0
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lamdogjunkie/9728621392/
• Gratis – Abrazo Dan CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
https://www.flickr.com/photos/hojas_cayendo/2300826631/
• Free Culture Libre nico sagredo CC BY-NC 2.0)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/desligamiento/5528167156/
• Free Beer tomorrow Debbie R CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
https://www.flickr.com/photos/freakgirl/241739089/
• Free Speech zone Caitlyn_and_Kara CC BY 2.0
https://www.flickr.com/photos/35176807@N00/6887030016/
• Free puppies worldoflard CC BY-NC 2.0
https://www.flickr.com/photos/worldoflard/7577815238/
• Creative Commons Licences, CC BY-SA 3.0
https://maconeastlibraryprojects.wikispaces.com/Creative+Commons+
Licenses
• Creative Commons Licences, © 2016 Foter Blog
• Martin Tasker, Lorna M. Campbell, CC BY
• All landscape photographs, Lorna M. Campbell, CC BY