[Open-education] Introduction

Wed Sep 25 20:40:16 UTC 2013

Hi everyone

I've enjoyed reading the introductions and finding out a bit more about the range of interests represented on this group :)

I'm Grainne and I suppose I have been involved in open education initiatives, in one way or another, for the last 10 years. I am interested in open education in quite a wide sense and for the last couple of years have been focusing on Open Badges, the open accreditation and recognition framework being driven by Mozilla. I am the founder and convener of the Open Badges in Scottish Education Group, which has come together to enable connections to be made between different stakeholders (from schools, colleges, universities, local and national government, educational agencies, professional bodies, employer groups, student voice organisations, Open Badges projects etc) that are impacting / influencing the development of Open Badges in relation to formal education in Scotland. The focus on formal education is due to my day job with Jisc but my personal interest is wider. I believe the opportunities provided by Open Badges to enable recognition of attributes, competencies and contributions in a more agile, transparent, meaningful, visible and learner-led way, means they could be truly transformative in terms of gaining and giving recognition for all kinds of learning. 

Other open education work I've been involved in has included being part of a team that developed and rolled out an OER repository for social work education, and developing and tutoring on a (c)MOOC. Current work includes an event I am organising on open education, which will take place at the University of Edinburgh in October and which will have inputs on the development of an open education policy in Scotland (from a fellow member, hi Lorna C!), MOOCs, OER repositories and Open Badges. I've also recently joined the Open Data Glasgow group. 

I'm looking forward to communicating with you all and discussing open education through this forum.

Best wishes
Grainne

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> Hello all, 
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> Just wanted to add to the introductions :)  I'm Lorna Campbell and I've been working in the domain of open education technology and interoperability standards for over ten years, most of that time as Assistant Director of Cetis http://www.cetis.ac.uk/  From 2009 - 2012, along with colleagues from Cetis,  I helped to advise the Jisc on the technology strategy for the Jisc / HEA Open Educational Resources Programmes (UKOER), and I also managed the programmes? technical support projects.  My colleagues and I all blogged extensively about UKOER and published a synthesis of the technical issues surfaced by the programmes in a free ebook, Into The Wild: Technology for Open Educational Resources  http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/2012/601
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> Over the last year I've been involved in promoting open education policy within Scotland and earlier this year I organised the Open Scotland Summit in Edinburgh, which brought together senior representatives from a wide range of Scottish education institutions, organisations and agencies to explore shared strategic priorities and scope collaborative activities to encourage the development of open education policies and practices to benefit the Scottish education sector as a whole.
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> I?m also particularly interested in the relationship between OER and MOOCs, the interface between content analytics and learning analytics, and technology and standards for open etextbooks.  I?m one of the owners of the OER-Discuss Jiscmail list and I?ve also recently got involved with the new Open Data Glasgow group.
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> Unfortunately I wasn?t able to get along to the first Open Education Handbook meeting but I hope to be able to contribute as this initiative develops.
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> All the best!
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> Lorna
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> Hello everyone,
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> Yes, very cool to see so many active people.
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> I'm not sure I quite live up to the good doings of the rest of you.
> However?
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> I'm Miska Michael Knapek, an information/visualisation/interface designer
> from Denmark/Czech Republic, living in Helsinki, and am involved with the
> Finnish Open Knowledge Foundation chapter ( http://fi.okfn.org/ ). Most
> recently I've worked doing interfaces to machine learning based data
> analyses, and run workshops about visualising open data (..erhmm.. also
> experimentally sometimes
> http://data-cuisine.net/open-data-cooking-workshop-helsinki/ ) .
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> I've been quite interested in the social and technical details of making an
> open society. In making an open society, of course, education is key. So
> I'm very interested to hear what the Open Education group does.
> 
> While I only recently heard of the LinkedUp project, I've had some similar
> thoughts.
> I'm also not too far from the Media Lab Helsinki's Learning Environment's
> Group ( http://legroup.aalto.fi/ )  - I used to study at the same
> department and am touch with them frequently -  who investigate and develop
> various open learning environments, and can at least act as a link to these
> as relevant ( they're slightly "busy academics", but said the Open
> Education group sounded rather interesting, looking forward to hearing more
> from me).
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> Looking forward to seeing how things unfold here, I'm sure they'll be great
> :)
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> miska
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