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Open Education, Open Scotland – report & presentations

Lorna Campbell — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 16:38:20 +0000

(Originally posted at Open Scotland)

Last week the ALT Scotland Special Interest Group hosted the second Open Scotland event, Open Education, Open Scotland at the Informatics Forum at the University of Edinburgh. This free and open event was attended by sixty colleagues, and speakers represented every sector of Scottish education including schools, further education, higher education and government.

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Open Scotland Webinar

Lorna Campbell — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 18:22:45 +0000

Last week Joe Wilson of SQA and I presented a short webinar on the Open Scotland initiative and the Scottish Open Education Declaration. The webinar, which was hosted by Celeste McLaughlin of Jisc RSC Scotland, generated some interesting discussion and debate around open education in Scotland. A recording of the webinar is available here, and our slides are embedded below.

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College Development Network Librarians Open Developments in Scotland

Lorna Campbell — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 11:21:31 +0000

Earlier this week I travelled up to the Stirling where I had the pleasure of presenting the keynote at the College Development Network Librarians Open Developments in Scotland event. It was an interesting and lively event and it’s great to see college librarians really engaging with the open education debate. Open education has the potential to be of enormous benefit to the FE sector, and librarians have a critical role to play in raising awareness of open education and advising their staff on the development and use of open educational content and licences.

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Jisc RSC Scotland Open Education Joint Forum

Lorna Campbell — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 22:00:26 +0000

Earlier this week I was invited by Jisc RSC Scotland to attend their Open Education Joint Forum which took place at the Informatics Forum at the University of Edinburgh. It was a very well attended event that featured a packed programme of thought provoking and engaging presentations that highlighted a range of really inspiring open education developments. I’ve put together a storify of the event’s lively twitter back channel here

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OKFN Glasgow and Edinburgh Meetups

Lorna Campbell — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 10:19:42 +0000

Two Open Knowledge Foundation Meetups are taking place in Scotland next week. Meet-ups are friendly and informal evenings for people to get together to share and discuss all aspects of openness. The meetings are free and open to all, so come along and join the discussions around open knowledge, open data, open education, open government, […]

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