A presentation for the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine's Post Graduate Tutors away day at the University of Edinburgh, May 2019

1. Medical School, Teviot Place, University of Edinburgh
CC BY SA 4.0, Lorna M. Campbell, Wikimedia Commons
Opening Online Learning
with
OER
Lorna M. Campbell,
Learning, Teaching and Web Services

2. © University of Edinburgh,
https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Paediatric+Emergency+Medicine+online+mastersA+Ra%27ana+Hussain+-
+student+testimonial/1_gyd1pi58

3. What is open education?

4. 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/

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

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.”
OER Commons, https://www.oercommons.org/

7. • 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/

8. Open educational resources
(OER)

9. "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/

10. 2nd OER World Congress, CC BY, Slovenian Press Agency

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

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

13. 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.”

14. Open education and OER
at the
University of Edinburgh

15. Easter Bush Charnock Bradley building, kaysgeog, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/28DqKWj

16. OER vision, policy & service

17. 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

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

19. 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

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

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

22. Near Future Teaching

23. Near Future Teaching, https://www.nearfutureteaching.ed.ac.uk/

24. Near Future Teaching,
https://www.nearfutureteaching.ed.ac.uk/

25. Building community with
academic blogging

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

27. 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/

28. 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/

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

30. Diversifying and decolonizing
the curriculum with OER

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

32. Openness, Equality and Inclusion, http://open.ed.ac.uk/openness-equality-and-inclusion/

33. Copyright debt

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

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

36. Wikimedia in the classroom

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

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

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

40. 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

41. Wikipedia in the Classroom - Simon Riley and Richard Smith on the Reproductive
Biology Wikipedia assignment, https://tinyurl.com/y3cghzpe

42. OER assignments

43. What is IBD in Pets,
http://open.ed.ac.uk/what-is-ibd-in-
pets/

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

45. Conclusion

46. © University of Edinburgh,
https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Paediatric+Emergency+Medicine+online+mastersA+Ra%27ana+Hussain+-
+student+testimonial/1_gyd1pi58

47. “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

48. 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
CC BY, Lorna M. Campbell