The document discusses the Open Education Resources (OER) movement, emphasizing the importance of accessibility and participation in education for all individuals globally. It outlines various strategies from UNESCO and Wikimedia to promote inclusive, equitable, and sustainable access to quality educational resources and addresses challenges faced, particularly for marginalized groups. The document also highlights initiatives from the University of Edinburgh to foster open educational practices and improve digital skills among students and faculty.

1. Commission from the Dodge of Venice, CC BY, Centre for Research Collections,
https://edin.ac/2HO8LcT
A Common Purpose
Wikimedia, Open Education and
Knowledge Equity for all
Lorna M. Campbell
Information Services, University of Edinburgh

3. Wikimedia Movement Strategy recommendations, CC BY-SA 4.0, Riesenspatz / Svenja Kirsch,
Anna Lena Schiller on Wikimedia Commons

4. The Cape Town Open Education Declaration, https://www.capetowndeclaration.org/

5. Jimmy Wales, CC BY-SA 4.0, Zachary McCune on
Wikimedia Commons
“Open education allows every person
on earth to access and contribute to
the vast pool of knowledge on the
web. Everyone has something to
teach and everyone has something
to learn.”

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

7. “openness is complex, personal, and
contextual; it is also continually
negotiated”
Openness and Praxis: Exploring the Use of Open
Educational Practices in Higher Education
Catherine Cronin
CC BY, Josie Fraser

8. Opening up Education, https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/eur-scientific-and-technical-research-reports/opening-
education-support-framework-higher-education-institutions

9. “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/

10. “OER are learning, teaching
and research materials in
any format and medium
that reside in the public
domain or are under
copyright that have been
released under an open
license, that permit no-cost
access, re-use, re-purpose,
adaptation and
redistribution by others.”
~ UNESCO
UNESCO OER, https://en.unesco.org/news/intergovernmental-expert-meeting-adopts-revised-draft-
recommendation-open-educational-resources

11. 2nd OER World Congress, CC BY, Slovenian Press Agency

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

13. 1. Building capacity of
stakeholders to create,
access, re-use, adapt and
redistribute OER
2. Developing supportive
policy
3. Encouraging effective,
inclusive and equitable
access to quality OER
4. Nurturing the creation of
sustainability models for
OER
5. Promoting and reinforcing
international cooperation
UNESCO Recommendation on OER, https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000370936

14. Qian Tang, CC BY, Slovenian Press Agency
“To meet 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.”

15. Wikimedia Movement Strategy, CC BY-SA 4.0, Riesenspatz / Svenja Kirsch, Anna Lena Schiller on Wikimedia Commons

16. Wikimedia Movement Strategy Recommendations
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations
1. Promote Sustainability and Resilience
2. Create Cultural Change for Inclusive
Communities
3. Improve User Experience
4. Provide for Safety and Security
5. Ensure Equity in Decision-Making
6. Foster and Develop Distributed Leadership
7. Invest in Skills Development
8. Manage Internal Knowledge
9. Coordinate Across Stakeholders
10. Prioritize Topics for Impact
11. Innovate in Free Knowledge
12. Evaluate, Iterate, and Adapt
13. Plan Infrastructure Scalability

17. Wikipedia's role in shaping the future of the information commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, Dot
Connector / Lutman & Associates on Wikimedia Commons

18. Pride Serbia 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0, Bojan Cvetanović on Wikimedia Commons

19. Progress to Goal in 2019
Despite the considerable progress on education access and participation over the
past years, 262 million children and youth aged 6 to 17 were still out of school in
2017, and more than half of children and adolescents are not meeting minimum
proficiency standards in reading and mathematics. Rapid technological changes
present opportunities and challenges, but the learning environment, the capacities
of teachers and the quality of education have not kept pace. Refocused efforts are
needed to improve learning outcomes for the full life cycle, especially for women,
girls and marginalized people in vulnerable settings.

26. Am ira Dhalla
Mozilla
A woman behind the web. Movement building and
designing for inclusive communities. @amirad
By Rori! Com ics for UnCom mon Wom en, CC BY
“What happens when only certain people are
able to contribute to open projects and what
happens when only certain people are able to
access open resources? This means that the
movement is not actually open to everyone
and only obtainable by those who can
practice and access it.
Open is great. Open can be the future. If, and
only when, we prioritize structuring it as a
movement where anyone can participate and
protecting those who do.”
The Dangers of Being Open
Amira Dhalla

27. Photograph from Processions (London), CC BY-SA 4.0, Alice White, on Wikimedia Commons

28. Dr Akwugo Emejulu, CC BY 3.0,
The Scottish Parliament on Wikimedia Commons
“Our interpretation of radical digital
citizenship seeks to displace instrumental con-
ceptions of digital literacy, which reduce digital
citizenship to mere skills acquisition for
navigating a digital world…We argue that
radical digital citizenship should problematise
dominant ideas about technologies and
rethink citizens’ relations with technology to
advance the common good.”
Towards a radical digital citizenship in digital
education
Akwugo Emejulu & Callum McGregor

29. Old College, University of Edinburgh, CC BY 2.0, LWYang, on Wikimedia Commons

30. University of Edinburgh Mission
Our graduates, and the knowledge we
discover with our partners, make the world
a better place.
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

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

32. 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

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

34. OER Service Activities
Focus on digital skills development &
strategic support
• Run workshops and digital skills development
events around OER and open education.
• Provide support to Schools and Colleges.
• Provide advice, guidance and training on
copyright and open licensing.
• Support ISG Playful Engagement Strategy.
Papers of William Speirs Bruce, No.686,
Centre for Research Collections, University of Edinburgh,
CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/fcwCzM

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

36. Free short online courses, https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/online-learning/free-short-courses

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

38. MicroMasters Programmes, https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/online-learning/micromasters

39. Rug Rumble - game creation, CC BY 2.0, Open.Ed on Flickr

40. Geosciences Outreach, https://geoscienceoutreach.wordpress.com/

42. University of Edinburgh OERs on TES Resources, https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/OpenEd

43. Women in Red meetups at the University of Edinburgh, CC BY-SA 4.0, Stinglehammer, (openly licensed images
sourced from Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA), https://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/tag/wikiproject-women-in-red/

44. ALD 2019, Interactive Content, CC BY 2.0 on Flickr

45. LGBT+ Healthcare 101, https://open.ed.ac.uk/lgbt-healthcare-101/

46. LGBT+ Issues - A resource for Secondary Schools, http://open.ed.ac.uk/lgbt-healthcare-101/

47. UncoverED: A collaborative decolonial research project, http://uncover-ed.org/

48. Diverse Collections, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/diversecollections/

49. Witches, https://witches.is.ed.ac.uk/

50. Wikimedia Residency, University of Edinburgh, year two, CC BY-SA 4.0, Stinglehammer,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh/Two_year_review

51. Tomas Sanders, Open Content Curation Intern, CC BY, Lorna M. Campbell

52. Black History Month Wikipedia editathon, CC BY-SA 4.0, Stinglehammer, on Wikimedia Commons

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54. Lorna M. Campbell
OER Service
Information Services Group
University of Edinburgh
lorna.m.campbell@ed.ac.uk
https://open.ed.ac.uk/
http://lornamcampbell.org/
@LornaMCampbell
CC BY, Lorna M. Campbell, University
of Edinburgh, unless otherwise
indicated.
Everyone is Equal, Edinburgh College of Art banner, Processions 2018
CC BY, Anne-Marie Scott, https://ammienoot.com/brain-fluff/walking-the-walk/