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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/
  1. reuse
  2. remix
  3. revise
  4. redistribute
  5. 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

US (Nicole Allen)

BREAKOUT GROUP NOTES



Open Government Group (Nicole)

U.S. State of Utah Open Textbooks project
Melissa Hagemann Group Notes


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.