This presentation introduces a range of contrasting initiatives that have aimed to promote open education policy and practice in Scotland, England and Wales over the last five years. These include the UKOER Programme, Open Scotland, OER Wales, the Welsh Open Education Declaration of Intent, the Scottish Open Education Declaration and the Opening Educational Practice in Scotland project. The paper will reflect on the different approaches taken by these initiatives and ask what Germany can learn from the experiences of open education practitioners in the UK.

1. The view from Scotland
What can Germany learn from OER initiatives in
the UK?
Lorna M. Campbell

2. Lorna M. Campbell,
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3. The Outer Hebrides
Contains Ordnance Survey data ©
Crown copyright and database right.
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4. Lorna M. Campbell,
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5. Glasgow
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6. Lorna M. Campbell,
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7. Cetis
• Centre for Educational Technology, Interoperability and
Standards http://www.cetis.ac.uk/
• 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.

8. About Cetis
Partnership between:
• University of Bolton.
• Heriot Watt
University.

9. Areas of expertise
• Learning analytics
• Course data standards
• Assessment standards
• eTextbook standards
• ePortfolios
• Enterprise architecture
• Open educational resources
• MOOCs
• Vocabulary management
• Metadata & resource
description
• Digital repositories
• Standards development
• Interoperability testing
• Horizon scanning
• Technical advisory &
strategic consultancy

10. Who does Cetis work with?

11. UKOER Programme
• Funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for
England (HEFCE) between 2009 – 2012.
• Only English Higher Education institutions could bid.
• Managed by Jisc and HEA and supported by Cetis.
• Invested over £10 million.
• Funded over 80 individual projects.
• Aimed at releasing OERs and embedding sustainable
open practice in institutions.

12. David Kernohan, CC BY, http://followersoftheapocalyp.se/what-i-talk-about-when-
i-talk-about-ukoer/

13. Many people,
many practices,
one community.
UKOER, David Kernohan,
http://followersoftheapocalyp.se/?attachment_id=984

14. #UKOER

15. Into the Wild:
Technology for
Open Educational
Resources
By Amber Thomas, Lorna
M. Campbell, Phil Barker
and Martin Hawksey
http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/
2012/601

16. Open Nottingham is designed to foster increased use, reuse and publication of open
educational resources (OER) by staff and students across the university and beyond.
There are four strategic drivers guiding Nottingham’s involvement in OER activities:
1. Social Responsibility
2. The Student Experience
3. Cost Efficiencies
4. Promotional Opportunities
Open Nottingham, http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/open/opennottingham.aspx

17. Open Learn, http://www.open.edu/openlearn/, launched in 2006.

18. OER at the OU, http://www.open.ac.uk/about/open-educational-resources/

19. Meanwhile
in Wales…
Lorna M. Campbell,
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20. Wales Open Education Declaration of Intent, http://www.hew.ac.uk/welsh-universities-
sign-declaration-of-intent-embedding-open-education-at-the-heart-
of-their-strategies/, 2013

21. “We believe embedding Open Educational Practice
across the Welsh higher education community will
facilitate an improved, quality educational
experience for students through OER…We believe
that we have a responsibility to the next generation
of scholars, whether they are based within our own
universities or further afield, because they are the
innovators of tomorrow. ”
Wales Open Education Declaration of Intent
http://www.hew.ac.uk/wp/media/OER-Declaration-of-Intent-Sept-2013.pdf

22. OER Cymru, http://www.oerwales.ac.uk/

23. Royal Welsh College of Music
and Drama, Cardiff
14-15 April 2015
Andy K, CC BY NC SA,
https://www.flickr.com/photos/declarationend/5539844578/

24. Open & online: Wales higher education
and emerging modes of learning,
http://wales.gov.uk/docs/dcells/publicati
ons/140402-online-digital-learning-working-
group-en.pdf

25. To the Minister for Education and Skills:
1. Widening access to higher education to those with low
participation backgrounds.
2. Developing skills for the workplace and the Welsh economy
3. Developing Welsh language skills for employment
To the higher education institutions:
4. Reviewing institutional policies, monitoring developments and
exploiting opportunities
5. Strengthening institutional reputation and brand
To the Minister and the higher education institutions:
6. Improving the skills of higher education staff
7. Licensing and sharing open educational resources
Open & online: Wales higher education and emerging modes of learning,
http://wales.gov.uk/docs/dcells/publications/140402-online-digital-learning-working-
group-en.pdf

26. Open and online resources: Implications for practice for higher education
institutions in Wales by Dr Paul Richardson,
http://wales.gov.uk/docs/dcells/publications/140402-online-digital-learning-working-
group-en.pdf

27. North of the
border…
Lorna M. Campbell,
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28. The University of Edinburgh Coursera, https://www.coursera.org/edinburgh

29. SQA Open Badges announcement, http://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/67688.html

30. Open Scotland

31. Open Scotland
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.
Lorna M. Campbell,
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32. Open Scotland
Summit
Brought together senior
managers, policy makers
and key thinkers
to explore the
development of open
education policy and
practice in Scotland.
Martin Hawksey,
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33. Scottish Open Education Declaration
http://declaration.openscot.net/

34. Open Scotland blog, http://openscot.net/

35. #OpenScot

36. Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
• Open University project funded by the Scottish Funding
Council (SFC).
• £1.27 million allocated over 3 years.
Opening Educational Practices in Scotland, http://oepscotland.org/

37. Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
• Analysis of current open educational practices.
• Events programme across Scotland to raise awareness of
OEP.
• Development of an online hub to encourage and share best
practice in open education.
• Development of a small number of high quality OERs of
particular benefit to Scotland.
• Badging of informal learning.
• Learning design for widening participation.
• Research and evaluation building strong evidence base.
• Evaluation of various economic models of openness.
“In the long term the project plans to leverage more funding and
ensure future sustainability of open educational practices in
Scotland.”
Opening Educational Practices in Scotland, http://oepscotland.org/

38. “Open education can promote knowledge
transfer while at the same time enhancing
quality and sustainability, supporting social
inclusion, and creating a culture of inter-institutional
collaboration and sharing. In
addition, open education can expand access
to education, widen participation, create new
opportunities for the next generation of
teachers and learners and prepare them to
become fully engaged digital citizens.”
Open Scotland Declaration
http://declaration.openscot.net/

39. Many people,
many practices,
one community.
UKOER, David Kernohan,
http://followersoftheapocalyp.se/?attachment_id=984

40. Questions?
Lorna M. Campbell,
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41. Licence
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What can Germany learn from OER initiatives in the UK?
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