Keynote delivered at the Open University H818 Networked Practitioner Conference in February 2021 http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/OU-H818/index.php/the-ou-h818-the-networked-practitioner-online-conference-2021/

1. Open for Good
Open education and
knowledge equity for all
Lorna M. Campbell,
OER Service, University of Edinburgh
Anima Celtica, The Evergreen Spring, 1895,
University of Edinburgh, CC BY,
Europeana / images.is.ed.ac.uk

2. • Open education and OER.
• UNESCO Recommendation on OER.
• Wikimedia Movement Strategy.
• Open for all? Structural inequalities in
the open landscape.
• Responding to the pandemic with
OER.
• OER at the University of Edinburgh.
CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, Centre for Research Collections, University
of Edinburgh, https://flic.kr/p/snkn7o

3. The Cape Town Open Education Declaration, https://www.capetowndeclaration.org/

4. Jimmy Wales, CC BY-SA 4.0, Zachary McCune on
Wikimedia Commons
“Open education allows every person
on earth to access and contribute to
the vast pool of knowledge on the
web. Everyone has something to
teach and everyone has something
to learn.”

5. Cape Town +10, http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/cpt10/

6. “openness is complex, personal, and
contextual; it is also continually
negotiated”
Openness and Praxis: Exploring the Use of Open
Educational Practices in Higher Education
Catherine Cronin
CC BY, Josie Fraser

7. “The worldwide OER movement is rooted in the human right to
access high-quality education. The Open Education Movement is
not just about cost savings and easy access to openly licensed
content; it’s about participation and co-creation.”
OER Commons, https://www.oercommons.org/

8. • Open licenses
• Open educational resources
• Open education policy and practice
• Open textbooks
• Open badges
• Open online courses
• MOOCs
• Open data
• Open science
• Open Access scholarly works
• Open source software
• Open standards
• Open government
• Open GLAM
CC BY 2.0, iamdogjunkie, https://www.flickr.com/photos/lamdogjunkie/9728621392/

9. “OER are learning, teaching
and research materials in
any format and medium
that reside in the public
domain or are under
copyright that have been
released under an open
license, that permit no-cost
access, re-use, re-purpose,
adaptation and
redistribution by others.”
~ UNESCO
UNESCO OER, https://en.unesco.org/news/intergovernmental-expert-meeting-adopts-revised-draft-
recommendation-open-educational-resources

10. United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org

11. 1. Building capacity of
stakeholders to create,
access, re-use, adapt and
redistribute OER
2. Developing supportive
policy
3. Encouraging effective,
inclusive and equitable
access to quality OER
4. Nurturing the creation of
sustainability models for
OER
5. Promoting and reinforcing
international cooperation
UNESCO Recommendation on OER, https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000370936

12. Wikimedia Movement Strategy, CC BY-SA 4.0, Riesenspatz / Svenja Kirsch, Anna Lena Schiller on Wikimedia Commons

13. Wikimedia Movement Strategy Recommendations
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations
1. Increase the sustainability of our
movement.
2. Improve user experience
3. Provide for safety and security
4. Ensure equity in decision-making
5. Coordinate across stakeholders
6. Invest in skills and leadership
development
7. Manage internal knowledge
8. Identify topics for impact
9. Innovate in free knowledge
10. Evaluate, iterate, and adapt

14. Wikipedia's role in shaping the future of the information commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, Dot
Connector / Lutman & Associates on Wikimedia Commons

15. Pride Serbia 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0, Bojan Cvetanović on Wikimedia Commons

22. Universal Code of Conduct https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Policy_text

23. Open Initiatives for Decolonising the Curriculum, Pat Lockley

24. Open Source Survey, http://opensourcesurvey.org/2017/#insights

25. Am ira Dhalla
Mozilla
A woman behind the web. Movement building and
designing for inclusive communities. @amirad
By Rori! Com ics for UnCom mon Wom en, CC BY
“What happens when only certain people are
able to contribute to open projects and what
happens when only certain people are able to
access open resources? This means that the
movement is not actually open to everyone
and only obtainable by those who can
practice and access it.
Open is great. Open can be the future. If, and
only when, we prioritize structuring it as a
movement where anyone can participate and
protecting those who do.”
The Dangers of Being Open
Amira Dhalla

26. https://en.unesco.org/news/covid-19-crisis-unesco-call-support-learning-and-knowledge-sharing-through-open-
educational

27. Old College, University of Edinburgh, CC BY 2.0, LWYang, on Wikimedia Commons

28. University of Edinburgh Mission
Our graduates, and the knowledge we
discover with our partners, make the world
a better place.
University of Edinburgh OER Vision
builds on
• Excellent education and research
collections.
• Traditions of the Scottish Enlightenment.
• The University’s civic mission.
CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, kaysgeog, https://flic.kr/p/ZpbuTZ

29. University of Edinburgh OER Policy
• http://open.ed.ac.uk/about/
• Approved by Learning and Teaching
Committee in January 2016.
• Informative and permissive.
• Encourages staff and students to use,
create and publish OERs to enhance the
quality of the student experience.
• Helps colleagues make informed
decisions about creating and using OER.
CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, Centre for Research Collections,
https://flic.kr/p/fcwNdT

30. Open.Ed, https://open.ed.ac.uk/

31. COVID-19 Critical Care, https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/covid-19-critical-care-education-resource/2

32. Short Online Courses at the University of Edinburgh, https://www.onlinecourses.ed.ac.uk/

33. Open Media Bank at the University of Edinburgh, https://media.ed.ac.uk/channel/Open%2BMedia%2BBank/

34. University of Edinburgh on TES Resources, https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/OpenEd

35. GeoScience Outreach students, by Kay Douglas, University of Edinburgh.

36. University of Edinburgh's 'Women in Espionage' editathon series, CC BY-SA, Mihaela Bodlovic,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:University_of_Edinburgh_Spy_Week_Wikipedia_edit-a-thon_02.jpg

37. Wikimedia in Education https://open.ed.ac.uk/wikimedia-in-education/

38. Wikimedia Residency, University of Edinburgh, year two, CC BY-SA 4.0, Stinglehammer,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh/Two_year_review

39. Women in Red meetups at the University of Edinburgh, CC BY-SA 4.0, Stinglehammer, (openly licensed images
sourced from Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA), https://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/tag/wikiproject-women-in-red/

40. ALD 2019, Interactive Content, CC BY 2.0 on Flickr

41. LGBT+ Healthcare 101, https://open.ed.ac.uk/lgbt-healthcare-101/

42. LGBT+ Issues - A resource for Secondary Schools, http://open.ed.ac.uk/lgbt-healthcare-101/

43. UncoverED: A collaborative decolonial research project, http://uncover-ed.org/

44. Diverse Collections, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/diversecollections/

45. Witches, https://witches.is.ed.ac.uk/

46. Black History Month Wikipedia editathon, CC BY-SA 4.0, Stinglehammer, on Wikimedia Commons

47. “Today we are at a pivotal moment in history. The COVID-19 crisis
has resulted in a paradigm shift on how learners of all ages,
worldwide, can access learning. It is therefore more than ever
essential that the global community comes together now to foster
universal access to information and knowledge through OER.”
~ UNESCO Call for Joint Action: Supporting Learning and Knowledge Sharing through Open
Educational Resources (OER)
https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/covid19_joint_oer_call_en.pdf

48. Contact
Open.Ed
open.ed@ed.ac.uk
http://open.ed.ac.uk/
@OpenEdEdinburgh
CC BY, University of Edinburgh,
unless otherwise indicated.
Lorna M. Campbell
lorna.m.campbell@ed.ac.uk
http://lornamcampbell.org/
@LornaMCampbell
Stephanie (Charlie) Farley
stephanie.farley@ed.ac.uk
@SFarley_Charlie