I've been invited on a couple of occasions to talk through my use of technology and disruption that is here already . This aimed at a broad Scottish College audience many of whom are not yet using blended learning with their learners and have some real fears around social learning

1. Joe Wilson, Chief Executive
Open, Collaborative, Sharing
Practice in the FE Sector

2. About me
• Qualifications
• Arrive in FE in 1986 as Communications
Lecturer
• SFEU 1999-2003
• SQA 2003-2014
• January 2015 Chief Executive, College
Development Network (CDN)

3. How I use digital space
Pre-internet: Banda Machines, photocopiers, OHP
projectors, Epidiascopes, electronic typewriters …
Post-internet Timeline:
1996 – Webpage using free hosting 2006 – LinkedIn
2000 – Blogger 2006 – Slideshare
2001 – JISCMail 2007 – Twitter
2001 – RSS feed Reader – currently Digg 2007 – Hootsuite
2003 – PB Wiki and Wikis 2008 – Paper.li
2003 – Website on own domain 2009 – Foursquare/Swarm
2003 – Delicious 2010 – Pinterest
2005 – Dropbox/One Drive 2011 – Google Apps/Docs
2005 – Skype 2012 – Google+ hangouts
2006 – You Tube Channel 2013 – Glow
2006 – Flickr

4. Social media:
a history

7. Three year vision

8. Google Moonshot 2015
Reaching out into community
Gamification
Global communities
Task orientated
Industry engagement
Learner generated content
Crowd sourcing and collaborative
learning

9. Where do you want to go – today
Education that is:
• On demand
• Self Paced
• Personalised to learning style and pace
• From any location
• Relevant to career and life now and for the future
• Reflects global learning and local needs – more collaborative
• Meeting and listening to experts – high value but good value
• Did I say - Collaborative
• In all subjects and in smaller packages

10. Education is changing

14. 13 Further Education Regions in
Scotland.
Are we ready to do things
differently?

15. OER & ukoer Vision
“...digitised materials offered freely and openly for
educators, students and self-learners to use and
reuse for teaching, learning and research.”
Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD, 2007)
“The UK must have a core of open access learning
resources organised in a coherent way to
support on-line and blended learning by all
higher education institutions and to make it more
widely available in non-HE environments.”
Sir Ron Cooke (as Chairman of Jisc, 2008)

16. Some Milestones in OER
• 1998 – Open Content Initiative
• 2000 – UNESCO conference
• 2001 – Wikipedia
• 2002 – MIT OpenCourseWare (UK)
• 2002 – Creative Commons
• 2006 – OU OpenLearn (UK)
• 2007 – Cape Town Open Educational Declaration
• 2009 – HEFCE/JISC/Academy OER (Pilot) Programme
• 2012 – UNESCO OER Paris Declaration
(Adapted from Yuan et al (2008), http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/oerbriefing)

17. UK FE Skills Window
Project vision: To provide
teaching practitioners within
the Further Education (FE)
Skills sector with simple,
flexible and easy to navigate
routes to Jisc digital content
that is directly relevant to
their curriculum,
qualifications and working
practices.

19. 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.
Open Education, Open Scotland, ALT
Scotland, 3 June 2014

20. Open Scotland
Open Education, Open Scotland, ALT Scotland SIG, 3 June 2014

21. Scottish Open Education Declaration
http://declaration.openscot.net/
Open Education, Open Scotland, ALT Scotland SIG, 3 June 2014

24. Bits Beyond
• What can you do this year to provide additional support to
your learners ?
• Regionalisation of Colleges – shared services – gaps in
provision – how can you help University of West of Scotland
and others ?
• What can you do for schools or community based learning ?
• What course would you open to the world ?
• How do you promote open practice across institution and
figure out business model ?
• As an individual practitioner – how do you start the learning
journey and building your personal learning network ?

25. Are you ready?
• WiFi ?
• Social Software policy ?
• BYOD ?
• Open Moodle ?
• Digital literacy and Digital participation for all
• Who are your digital leaders – in the staff room and in the
classroom?
• Do you have any open practitioners ?
• Where can I start ?
• Which apps do you use ?
• What collections ?
• Where , how do you share, reuse , remix ?

26. So where do we want to be …?
Sharing, confident and
supporting learners , open
practitioners

27. Provide:
 Professional
dialogue
and sharing
 Events, workshops and
online discussion
 Addressing current
policy

28. Our 31 Development Networks

30. Contact
joe.wilson@cdn.ac.uk
@joecar