16. What is open education?
• A practice?
• A philosophy?
• A movement?
• A licensing issue?
• A human right?
• A buzz word?
• A way to save
money?
CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Marc Moss,
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lovenot
fear/58650808/
17. “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.”
18. Open education can encompass
• 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
• Open educational resources
CC BY 2.0, iamdogjunkie,
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lamdogjunkie/972
8621392/
19.
20. "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
25. Ljubljana OER Action Plan
“Toward the realization of inclusive Knowledge
Societies, Open Educational Resources (OER)
support quality education that is equitable,
inclusive, open and participatory…. OER are a
strategic opportunity to improve knowledge
sharing, capacity building and universal access
to quality learning and teaching resources.”
26. “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 mean to
reach SDGs. OER are the key.”
Qian Tang, CC BY, Slovenian Press Agency
29. “Free is not the most
important thing about
OER, it's the permission
to modify.”
Ryan Merkley, CC BY, Slovenian Press Agency
30. “Free is not the most
important thing about
OER, it's the
permission to modify.”
@ University of Edinburgh
31. University of Edinburgh OER Vision
Three strands:
• For the common good
• Edinburgh at its best
• Edinburgh's treasures
32. 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.
• Helps colleagues make informed decisions about
creating and using OER in support of the University’s
OER Vision.
• Informative and permissive.
34. The Benefits of OER
• Ensures longevity of access
to resources.
• Diversifies the curriculum.
• Improves digital skills.
• Engages students in co-
creation.
• Promotes the outputs of
open research.
• Contributes to the
development of open
knowledge.
• Enhances engagement with
content and collections.
CC 0, Alan Levine,
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/35104
311216/
51. 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
54. 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/
55. Contact
Melissa Highton
Assistant Principal
Director, Learning Teaching & Web
University of Edinburgh
melissa.highton@ed.ac.uk
http://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/melissa/
@HoneybHighton
Lorna M. Campbell
Learning Teaching & Web
Information Services
University of Edinburgh
lorna.m.campbell@ed.ac.uk
http://lornamcampbell.org/
@LornaMCampbell
CC BY, Lorna M. Campbell, University of Edinburgh, unless otherwise indicated.
Editor's Notes
Open education is many things to many people and there’s no one hard and fast definition.
This is one description of the open education movement that I particularly like from OER Commons…
Open education can encompass many different things. These are just some of the aspects of open education
550 participants, 30 government ministers, representing 111 member states
OER World Congress in Ljubljana Slovenia.
550 participants, 30 government ministers, representing 111 member states
OER World Congress in Ljubljana Slovenia.
550 participants, 30 government ministers, representing 111 member states
OER World Congress in Ljubljana Slovenia.
550 participants, 30 government ministers, representing 111 member states
OER World Congress in Ljubljana Slovenia.
Central to the OER Action plan is the role of OER in supporting quality education that is equitable, inclusive, open and participatory. The Action Plan outlines 41 recommended actions to mainstream OER and to help Member States to build knowledge societies and provide quality, lifelong education.
550 participants, 30 government ministers, representing 111 member states
OER World Congress in Ljubljana Slovenia.
One of the key characteristics of open educational resources is that they are either in the public domain or they are released under an open licence and generally that means a Creative Commons licence
However not all Creative Commons licences are equal and only resources that are licensed for adaptation and reuse can really be considered as OER.
At the recent OER World Congress, Creative Commons CEO Ryan Merkley emphasized that free is not the most important thing about OER, it’s the permission to modify and adapt resources that is most important.
At the recent OER World Congress, Creative Commons CEO Ryan Merkley emphasized that free is not the most important thing about OER, it’s the permission to modify and adapt resources that is most important.
Our vision for OER has three strands building on our excellent education and research collections, traditions of the Enlightenment and the university’s civic mission. These are:
For the common good – every day teaching and learning materials.
Edinburgh at its best – high quality resources produced by a range of projects and initiatives.
Edinburgh’s Treasures – content from our world class cultural heritage collections.
This vision is backed up by an OER Policy approved by our Learning and Teaching Committee, which encourages staff and students to use, create and publish OERs to enhance the quality of the student experience
And we also have an OER Service which provides staff and students with advice and guidance on creating and using OER, and which provides a one stop shop where you can access open educational resources produced by staff and students across the univeristy.
I want to focus now on some of the benefits of OER.
Openly licensing ensures that we have continued access to resources we have invested in and guards against what Melissa Highton has referred as copyright debt.
Open Media Bank project – ensuring MOOC resources remain accessible once courses are no longer running.
A number of studies have shown that LGBT Health is not well-covered in Medical curricula in either the UK or the US, however knowledge of LGBT health and of the sensitivities needed to treat LGBT patients are valuable skills for qualifying doctors.
Using resources from the commons, this project addressed the lack of teaching on LGBT health within the curriculum. The remixed and repurposed resources were contributed back to the commons as CC BY licensed OER. New open resources including digital stories recorded from patient interviews and resources for Secondary School children of all ages were also created and released as CC BY OER.
Original resources created by Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Originally created by the University of Oxford, adapted by the University of Edinburgh. Course won the Credo Digital Award for Information Literacy
Subsequently adapted for use by the Scottish Social Services Council as 23 digital capabilities to support practice and learning in social services.
We believe that there are many benefits to using and sharing open educational resources and this is one of the reasons that the University of Edinburgh support the the Open Scotland initiative and the Scottish Open Education Declaration which, in line with the UNESCO OER Action Plan, calls for all publicly funded educational resources to be available under open licence