Open, Collaborative, Sharing
Practice in the FE Sector
Joe Wilson, Chief Executive
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)
How I use digital space
Pre-internet: Photocopiers, OHP projectors,
Epidiascopes, electronic typewriters …
Post-internet Timeline:
1996 – Webpage using free hosting
2000 – Blogger
2001 – JISCMail
2001 – RSS feed Reader – currently Digg
2003 – PB Wiki and Wikis
2003 – Website on own domain
2003 – Delicious
2005 – Dropbox/One Drive
2005 – Skype
2006 – You Tube Channel
2006 – Flickr
2006 – LinkedIn
2006 – Slideshare
2007 – Twitter
2007 – Hootsuite
2008 – Paper.li
2009 – Foursquare/Swarm
2010 – Pinterest
2011 – Google Apps/Docs
2012 – Google+ hangouts
2013 – Glow
Social media:
a history
Three year vision
Where do you want to go – today
Education that is:
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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
Education is changing
13 Further Education Regions in
Scotland.
Are we ready to do things
differently?
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)
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)
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.
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
Scottish Open Education Declaration
http://declaration.openscot.net/
Open Education, Open Scotland, ALT Scotland SIG, 3 June 2014
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 ?
• 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 ?
Are you ready?
• Social Software policy
• 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 ?
So where do we want to be …?
Sharing, confident and
supporting learners , open
practiioners
Provide:
 Professional
dialogue
and sharing
 Events, workshops and
online discussion
 Addressing current
policy
Our 31 Development Networks
Contact
joe.wilson@cdn.ac.uk
@joecar
Some UK Examples
• www.jorum.ac.uk
• http://resource.blogs.scotcol.ac.uk/
• Open Leeds
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/qat/policyprocedures/OERs.pdf
• FELTAG and ETAG Mathew Hancock legacy
Open Scotland
Open Education, Open Scotland, ALT Scotland SIG, 3 June 2014
National OER Programmes
• ParisTech Open Course Ware
• Japan OpenCourseWare Consortium (JOCW)
• China Open Resources for Education (CORE)
• Irish Open
• HEFCE/JISC/Academy OER Programme
• http://oepscotland.org/