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OERde14 – The view from Scotland

Lorna Campbell — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 16:21:04 +0000

I’m delighted to have been invited to Berlin later this week to give a talk at OERde14 – The Future of Free Educational Materials. I’ll be talking about 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, including 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. I’ll also be reflecting on the different approaches taken by these initiatives and asking what Germany can learn from the experiences of open education practitioners in the UK.

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#Cetis14 Open Education: From Open Practice to Open Policy

Lorna Campbell — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 16:51:21 +0000

Last week Li and I ran a session at the Cetis Conference on Open Education: From Open Practice to Open Policy. My initial plan had been to focus on questions such as:

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?!

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OKF Open Education Working Group Advisory Board

Lorna Campbell — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 16:22:53 +0000

Earlier this month I was delighted to be invited to join the Advisory Board of the Open Knowledge Foundation’s Open Education Working Group. The aim of the group, which is led by Marieke Guy, is “to initiate global cross-sector and cross-domain activity that encompasses the various facets of open education.” Marieke has invited all Board members to write an introductory blog post for the group so here’s mine. It was published over at Open Education Working Group site last week.

OKF Open Education Working Group

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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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Open, Education

Phil Barker — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 09:22:31 +0000

This is a longish summary of a presentation I gave recently, covering why I was talking, the spectrum of openness, the ways of being open, the range of activities involved in education and how open things might apply to those activities. You may want to skim through until something catches your eye

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