[Open-education] UK to US: Open Ed news from across the pond - a UK reply

Fri Oct 30 10:45:45 UTC 2015

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> From: Lorna Campbell <lorna.m.campbell at ICLOUD.COM>
> Date: 30 October 2015 11:30:35 CET
> To: OPENEDSIG at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Open Ed news from across the pond
> Reply-To: Open Education Special Interest Group <OPENEDSIG at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> 
> Hi Viv,
> 
> There certainly seems to be real momentum being open policy in the US right now.  All credit to colleagues across the pond who have been lobbying to make this happen.  
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> In terms of what we can do here in the UK, I think pushing to include ‘open’ in sector wide instruments such as the NTF & UKPSF criteria  and the TEF consultations is really important.  It can’t help feeling that while awareness of open education may be growing in individual institutions, we have yet to make a dent at policy level.  If anything, it sometimes feels like we’re regressing.  As you know, I’ve been pushing the Open Scotland initiative for a number of years now.  Open Scotland [1] and the Scottish Open Education Declaration [2] aim to raise awareness of increased openness to benefit all sectors of education. While there has been considerable interest in the declaration both nationally and internationally we have not yet had much of a response from the Scottish Government, however the University of Edinburgh has recently provided funded support for Open Scotland [3] so I live in hope that we can bring open education to the attention of policy makers. 
> 
> Cheers
> Lorna
> 
> [1] Open Scotland http://openscot.net/
> [2] Scottish Open Education Declaration http://declaration.openscot.net/
> [3] OER Liaison - Open Scotland https://lornamcampbell.wordpress.com/2015/09/02/a-new-string-for-my-bow-oer-liaison-open-scotland/
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>> On 29 Oct 2015, at 21:28, Vivien Rolfe <vivien.rolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi All
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>> Just sharing that the US Gov #GoOpen initiative is really gaining momentum with a big commitment today for open education and use of open licenses on all education dept. funded IPR.
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>> http://tech.ed.gov/open-education/
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>> It seems we have a mountain to climb for anything similar in the UK but we can at least put ideas and pressure where we can. I've particularly sought to influence NTF criteria and UKPSF criteria to include 'open', and I've pushed it as part of TEF consultations I've been involved in. This is nothing, and what it would take is a community effort.
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>> I'd be interested to hear what other people do to influence not just their institutions but locally / nationally? Perhaps reply to me (vivien.rolfe at gmail.com) and I'll compile responses back to our group.
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>> :)
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>> Best wishes
>> Viv
>> And don't forget, #GoOpen
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> Lorna M. Campbell
> Open Education Technology and Practice 
> Blog: lornamcampbell.wordpress.com
> Mail: lorna.m.campbell at icloud.com
> Twitter: LornaMCampbell
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