The document discusses open education policy and outlines an agenda for a workshop on the topic. It poses several questions about the value and need for open education policies and the role of government agencies and commercial interests. The workshop would involve inventing a fictional country and having delegates act as the government to develop an open education policy by hearing recommendations from presenters acting as government ministers. The agenda then lists the presenters and timing of their sessions along with time for discussion. The document is made available under a Creative Commons license.
Scotland has a distinctive and highly regarded tradition of education that is recognised internationally. However, while the Scottish Government has been active in formulating Digital Future strategies and open data policies, it has yet to articulate policies to support open education and open educational resources.
Elsewhere in the UK, the Higher Education Funding Council for England funded a £15M (€17,5M) OER programme, which ran from 2009 to 2012. The UKOER Programme, managed by JISC and the Higher Education Academy and supported by Cetis, funded a large number of projects that released OERs, developed and embedded open practices and built capacity within institutions and across subject domains. Although restricted to the English HE sector, the UKOER Programmes demonstrated that open educational resources and practices have the potential to address current issues in Scottish education.
Although no comparable funding programme exists in Scotland, a number of ‘grassroots’ initiatives are emerging from the further and higher education sector that are opening up Scottish education. In order to explore how Scotland can leverage the power of open to develop the nation’s unique education offering, support social inclusion and inter-institutional collaboration and sharing, and engage with EU open education directives, Cetis are facilitating an Open Scotland Summit, which will explore the development of open education policies and practices for Scotland. This paper will provide a critical overview of open education initiatives in Scotland in the wider context of UK, European and global developments, and present the outcomes and findings of the Open Scotland Summit.
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Scotland has a distinctive and highly regarded tradition of education that is recognised internationally. However, while the Scottish Government has been active in formulating Digital Future strategies and open data policies, it has yet to articulate policies to support open education and open educational resources.
Elsewhere in the UK, the Higher Education Funding Council for England funded a £15M (€17,5M) OER programme, which ran from 2009 to 2012. The UKOER Programme, managed by JISC and the Higher Education Academy and supported by Cetis, funded a large number of projects that released OERs, developed and embedded open practices and built capacity within institutions and across subject domains. Although restricted to the English HE sector, the UKOER Programmes demonstrated that open educational resources and practices have the potential to address current issues in Scottish education.
Although no comparable funding programme exists in Scotland, a number of ‘grassroots’ initiatives are emerging from the further and higher education sector that are opening up Scottish education. In order to explore how Scotland can leverage the power of open to develop the nation’s unique education offering, support social inclusion and inter-institutional collaboration and sharing, and engage with EU open education directives, Cetis are facilitating an Open Scotland Summit, which will explore the development of open education policies and practices for Scotland. This paper will provide a critical overview of open education initiatives in Scotland in the wider context of UK, European and global developments, and present the outcomes and findings of the Open Scotland Summit.
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Between 2009 and 2012 the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) funded a series of programmes to encourage higher education institutions in the UK to release existing educational content as Open Educational Resources (OER) and to embed open practices in the institution. The HEFCE funded UK OER Programmes were run and managed by the JISC and the Higher Education Academy. Over the course of three years about £15M (€17,5M) was invested on projects that investigated the release and collection of OERs by individuals, institutions and subject communities. The Cetis “OER Technology Support Project” provided support for technical innovation across this programme.
In this conference paper we will present our reflections on the technical approaches taken, issues raised and the lessons learnt from the Programmes and the Support Project. The issues covered include resource management, resource description, licensing and attribution, search engine optimisation and discoverability, tracking OERs, and paradata (activity data about learning resources). Technical solutions discussed will include the use of social sharing platforms such as flickr and WordPress for resource dissemination; metadata embedded in HTML documents as RDFa, microdata and using the schema.org ontology; and sharing metadata and paradata using the Learning Registry (a network of schema-free data stores). As well as describing the achievements of the programme, we will also discuss the difficulties encountered and identify areas where further work is required.
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Between 2009 and 2012 the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) funded a series of programmes to encourage higher education institutions in the UK to release existing educational content as Open Educational Resources (OER) and to embed open practices in the institution. The HEFCE funded UK OER Programmes were run and managed by the JISC and the Higher Education Academy. Over the course of three years about £15M (€17,5M) was invested on projects that investigated the release and collection of OERs by individuals, institutions and subject communities. The Cetis “OER Technology Support Project” provided support for technical innovation across this programme.
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2. Open Education: From Open Practice to Open Policy, #cetis14, 17-18 June 2014
From Open Practice to Open Policy
3. From Open Practice to Open Policy
• What, if any, is the value of open education policy?
• Do institutions need open education policies?
• Should government agencies play a role in the
development of open education policy?
• Are there conflicts between commercial interests and
market forces, and open education policy and practice?
• How can open education initiatives be nurtured and
sustained?
• And what do we mean by “open education” anyway?!
Open Education: From Open Practice to Open Policy, #cetis14, 17-18 June 2014
5. David Kernohan said…
Why not invent a country and create an
open education policy for it? We treat the
delegates as the government of said
country, and we each present what we have
done making recommendations for the
policy. At the end we ask the "government"
to discuss and reach a conclusion.
Open Education: From Open Practice to Open Policy, #cetis14, 17-18 June 2014
9. Your Government Ministers / Military
Dictators / Benevolent Despot
• David Kernohan, Jisc.
• Paul Richardson, Jisc RSC Cymru.
• Joe Wilson, Scottish Qualifications Authority.
• Pat Lockley, Pgogy.
• Suzanne Hardy, University of Newcastle.
• Paul Booth, North West OER / Manchester
Metropolitan University.
• Tore Hoel, Nordic OER / Oslo and Akershus
University.
Open Education: From Open Practice to Open Policy, #cetis14, 17-18 June 2014
10. • 09.15 - 09.30 Introduction
• 09.30 - 09.45 David Kernohan
• 09.45 - 10.00 Paul Richardson
• 10.00 - 10.15 Joe Wilson
• 10.15 - 10.30 Pat Lockley
• 10.30 - 10.45 Discussion
• 10.45 - 11.30 Coffee Break
• 11.30 - 11.45 Suzanne Hardy
• 11.45 - 12.00 Paul Booth
• 12.00 - 12.15 Tore Hoel
• 12.15 - 12.45 Discussion and summing up
Open Education: From Open Practice to Open Policy, #cetis14, 17-18 June 2014
11. Licence
Open Education: From Open Practice to Open Policy
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
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