The document discusses the Open Scotland initiative which aims to raise awareness of open education in Scotland and explore how open policies and practices can benefit all levels of Scottish education. It summarizes recent open education developments in Scotland and outlines discussions at the Open Scotland Summit, including how openness could help address strategic priorities. Key proposed actions include establishing a working group to advance open education research and inform policy, and delivering position papers and an open learning declaration for Scotland.

1. Open Scotland:
Opening up education in
Scotland
Lorna M. Campbell & Joe Wilson

2. What is Cetis?
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Centre for Education Technology, Interoperability and
Standards http://www.cetis.ac.uk/
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A national UK technology advisory centre providing
strategic, technical and pedagogical advice on
educational technology and standards to funding bodies,
standards agencies, government, institutions and
commercial partners.
Open Education, RSC Joint Forum, November 2013.

3. Open Scotland
Open Scotland is an initiative that aims to
raise awareness of open education and
explore the potential of open policy and
practice to benefit all sectors of Scottish
education.
Open Education, RSC Joint Forum, November 2013.

4. Open Scotland
Open Education, RSC Joint Forum, November 2013.

5. Scottish Open Education Developments
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Edinburgh Napier University’s 3E Framework
Glasgow Caledonian University Library’s OER Guidelines
University of Edinburgh’s MOOCs
Re:Source FE OER Repository
Curriculum for Excellence
Open Badges for Scottish Education Group
Wikimedian in residence at National Library of Scotland
Learner Journey Project
Smarter Scotland Strategic Objective
Open Education, RSC Joint Forum, November 2013.

6. Open Scotland Summit
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Brought together senior
managers, policy makers and
key thinkers to explore the
development of open
education policy and practice
in Scotland.
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National Museum of Scotland,
Edinburgh, June 2013.
Open Education, RSC Joint Forum, November 2013.

7. Open Scotland Participants
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Scottish Government
Scottish Qualifications
Authority
Education Scotland
Scottish Funding
Council
Quality Assurance
Agency
College Development
Network
National Library of
Scotland
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Open Education, RSC Joint Forum, November 2013.
Universities of
Edinburgh, Dundee,
Heriot Watt, UHI,
Glasgow Caledonian.
Jisc
Jorum
Jisc RSC Scotland
Jisc RSC Cymru
OSS Watch
Nordic Open Education
Alliance
Creative Commons
POERUP Project

8. Open Scotland Keynote
“Open Education: The Business
and Policy Case for OER”
by Dr Cable Green,
Creative Commons, Director of
Global Learning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=AjG8T1xbhEo
© Martin Hawksey
Open Education, RSC Joint Forum, November 2013.

9. How can openness help to address
strategic priorities and challenges?
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Academic publishing
OER and licence restrictions
Joining up open practice
Quality assurance
Learners as co-creators
Change management
Preparing F/HE for Curriculum for Excellence
FE funding cuts
Open Education, RSC Joint Forum, November 2013.

10. How can openness help to address
strategic priorities and challenges?
• Can openness address the government’s “Big
Ticket” strategic agendas?
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Open Education, RSC Joint Forum, November 2013.
Post-16 education.
Knowledge transfer.
Curriculum change.
School – college –
university
articulation.

11. An Open Declaration for Scotland?
Open Education, RSC Joint Forum, November 2013.
© UNESCO

12. Open Scotland Actions
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Action 1 – Establish working group, similar to the Nordic
countries, to stimulate open education research and
inform future Government white papers.
Action 2 – Learn from nations that are further ahead of
Scotland in promoting the open agenda. Work with the
other devolved nations in the UK.
Action 3 – Use the working group to focus on key
Government priorities and agendas, e.g. learner
journeys, articulation, work based learning, knowledge
transfer.
Open Education, RSC Joint Forum, November 2013.

13. Open Scotland Deliverables
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Key Deliverable 1 - Position paper providing evidence
of the benefits of openness with examples of how these
can impact on Government priorities.
Key Deliverable 2 - A Scottish Open Learning
Declaration.
Key Deliverable 3 - Government policy on open
education. This will require stakeholder groups to state
how they will engage with and contribute to the
implementation of the policy.
Open Education, RSC Joint Forum, November 2013.

14. Open Scotland Blog
http://openscot.wordpress.com
Open Education, RSC Joint Forum, November 2013.

15. “The opposite of open is not closed, the
opposite of open is broken.”
Cable Green
Director of Global Learning,
Creative Commons
Open Education, RSC Joint Forum, November 2013.

16. Licence
Open Scotland: Policies and strategies for opening up education in Scotland
by Lorna M Campbell, lorna.m.campbell@icloud.com
of Cetis http://www.cetis.ac.uk is licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/