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Open_Educational_Resources_and_Policy
Open Educational Resources and Policy: Overview and Synergies with Fellow Open Movements
Sched:
http://2014.okfestival.org/festival-programme/
Session hashtag:
#OKFestOER
Facilitators:
Nicole Allen @txtbks
Delia Browne @deliabrowne
Melissa Hagemann @melhagemann
Alek Tarkowski @atarkowski
Tim Vollmer @tvol
OER Overview (Tim Vollmer)
The "5R's" of OER, see: http://opencontent.org/definition/
- reuse
- remix
- revise
- redistribute
- retain
OER Policy History (Melissa Hagemann)
Cape Town Declaration: http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/
Paris OER Declaration: http://oercongress.weebly.com/paris-declaration.html
Australia (Delia Browne)
AusGOAL open access licensing framework for government content: http://www.ausgoal.gov.au/
Various resources have been created by AusGOAL to help people use OER
Poland (Alek Tarkowski)
OER Coalition: http://koed.org.pl/english/
Digital school program: http://creativecommons.pl/2012/04/digital-school-program-with-open-textbooks-approved-by-polish-government/
OER Policy blog: http://oerpolicy.eu/
Big debate in Poland - publishers opposed to open text books as they felt it was (potentially unfair) competition
CC-BY adopted in Poland. Open technical formats adopted.
Moved away from PDFs and Flash (hooray!)
WCAG 2.0 standard for accessability adopted.
Needed to build a community so that when they went to government they had something concrete to show them
EU Opening Up Education: http://www.openeducationeuropa.eu/en/initiative
- ERASMUS + - big EU funded OER initiative
- Concerns of lack of specificity in licensing and standards
US (Nicole Allen)
- Large public policy issue as paid-for resources sometimes up to $200 per book
- The curriculum is very localised
- Some states have funded OER to counteract these costs
- Free textbooks illegal in some sates as it is seen as corruption
- Recent legislation (at what level? federal? local?) means that publically funded textbooks must people published as OER under CC-BY
- $2bn funding for production of OER in US published as OER under CC-BY
- I think Alek raised a concern that when this content is made freely available what will be the repercussions in other countries - will governments still fund OER locally if there is content available globally?
BREAKOUT GROUP NOTES
- Delia's Breakout Group Notes on copyright
- attendees
- Delia Browne
- Tom Bartlett
- Jake Berger (BBC)
- Chris
- Beck Pitt (OER Research Hub)
- Rob Farrow (OER Research Hub)
- Kristina - swedish TLT
- Ingo
- Tom - need to come up with process for assigning and checking license
- Delia
- info pack for educations - how to label etc etc
- now trying to change business process so people use open repoisitaries first before going to other repositories, not chosing what you find forst then asking other to clear it
- Kristina - been trying to do this. finding appropriate resounces is difficult due to relatively small number of itesm in Swedishnow fucusse don getting the source material owner to make it up
- Chris - same problem, but very small team, trying to release lots of info and data with open license, for session put on by lobraries, community grousp etc, but also need to cover costs of the operation. Clearance for redistribution needs to be check on his resources! figuring out what to do with all the info gathered over the last few years.
- Beck and Rob - OER Research Hub funded by hewlett foundation, based at the Open University (UK). mainly working in US on collab research projects to test 11 research hypotheses on potential of OER ie does it save money, do people use different support techniques. methodology itself is open itslef
- More on project and our OER Impact Map (with map of OER policy) here: http://oerresearchhub.org and http://oermap.org
- Delia - Aus publishing industry beginning to offer (eg) accreditation and assessment services around OER, not the book themselves. Delia has access to lots of data on copyright status of OER.
- Jake - interested in experiences of copyright changes for education eg by exception, collective licensing. compulsary collective licensing, limited exceptions for educations. UK messed it up with Fair Use. Aus schools pay 80m AUSD per year for colelctive licensing. plus hundreds of millions. jake to talk to Paul Keller
Open Government Group (Nicole)
U.S. State of Utah Open Textbooks project
Melissa Hagemann Group Notes
- Capetown Declaration made it a global movement
- Reiterated what was said by Alek that you need a community before staring to cretae policy
- MOOC - the "Open" means open enrolment not open licence. Not really OER
- Publishers have attacked the movement from the start
- Cost savings need to be publicised and promoted when discussing OA and OER
- Quality of content is biggest criticism of most OER - there is a need for high quality examples
Participant form OU OER_hub said that the problem was getting users who would really benefit from the materials. Most MOOC or OER users already have degrees
Poor content, poorly designed courses end up with a bad experience for users. If it is a user who has not been in education for a very long time, those who would probably benefit most, then this confirms ideas that maybe education is not for them
Participant from Brazil mentioned that some of the meetings that they attend on OER there are more Lawyers in attendance than educators. It is the lawyers who then take over the direction of policy.
Also mentioned that OER is not always online for the users - in poorer countries printed materials are still the most effective way to get content out to the people.