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Open Scotland – Open ALT
Informatics Forum,
University of Edinburgh
3 June 2014
Maren Deepwell
Chief Executive
ALT
@marendeepwell
alt.ac.uk
Working together – national and
international open collaboration
◊ The ALT Scotland SIG since 2012
◊ A new shared vision for ALT’s future –
the 2014-17 strategy
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1gP0aFx
◊ Growth of international membership
and collaboration across the globe
https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/what-
we-do/partnerships
alt.ac.uk
Not everything we care about is
digital
alt.ac.uk
Members take a lead in helping
ALT to scale up its activities
◊ MOOC SIG and events
◊ Open Education SIG, OER conference
and joining the Open Policy Network
◊ Collaboration with partners including
Jisc and the Association of Colleges
alt.ac.uk
Policy and the Scottish Open
Education Declaration
◊ Policy across sectors
◊ Open policy across nations
◊ Sharing openly – how to make it work
at scale?
alt.ac.uk
FELTAG and ETAG – influencing
policy, sharing our expertise
◊ Further Education Learning Technology
Action Group and report
http://feltag.org.uk/
◊ Education Technology Action Group –
open conversation until 23 June
http://etag.support/
alt.ac.uk
#altc – the 2014 annual
conference, 1-3 September
◊ altc2014 Riding Giants: How to
innovate and educate ahead of the
wave https://www.alt.ac.uk/alt-
conference/altc2014
alt.ac.uk
Special Issue for Research in
Learning Technology
◊ Collaboration between Sloan
Consortium, the Irish Learning
Technology Association and ascilite
◊ Proposed topic: international
collaboration across the globe
(practice, policy and research)
alt.ac.uk
#ocTEL – open course in
Technology Enhanced Learning
◊ 1000+ registered
participants;
◊ Hundreds of open
badges earned;
◊ Designed and run by
ALT Members
◊ 25%+ of participants
from outside of HE
alt.ac.uk
What’s next?
◊ Open Education Scotland Declaration
◊ Continuing to support this community
◊ Developing representation for ALT
Members in Scotland
◊ Working to support sharing and
collaboration across sectors, across
nations
Association for Learning Technology
Registered charity number: 1063519
www.alt.ac.uk @A_L_T
CC-BY Maren Deepwell. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 Unported License.

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