Category: Policy
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Snapshot of the TAACCCT OER Community Pt.2
This blog post is Part 2 in a series about my research on the U.S. Department of Labor Trade Adjustment Assistance for Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) OER project as part of my work with Creative Commons on the OPEN project, and my fellowship with the OER Research Hub.…
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OER at #iNACOL14
The 9th (and to date largest) iNACOL Blended and Online Symposium has now concluded. Joining the nearly 3,000 attendees at the massive Palm Springs Convention Center, I made my way from Pueblo to Sierra via San Jacinto and Catalina, ice cream in one hand and lemonade in the other, navigating the talks in…
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Snapshot of the TAACCCT OER Community Pt.1
What’s happening inside the world’s largest OER project? What patterns exist among grantee projects in their use and attitudes of OER and proprietary content? This blog post summarizes initial results of a survey conducted in February and March of 2014, exploring knowledge areas and use patterns of Open Educational Resources…
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A Grand Tour of OER Policy #OER14
Hot off the press ahead of our presentation today here are the slides that myself and OER Research Hub fellow Sara Frank Bristow have put together on global OER policy and the ways that the OER Policy Map might help us to work out what’s going on… feedback welcome!
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The Scottish Open Education Declaration
Scottish followers (and others) are likely to be interested in this crowd-sourced statement of principle which attempts to build on the Paris OER Declaration of 2012. It expresses support for open education at all levels of governance in order to build a complete ecosystem for open education.
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A note from OERRH Open Fellow Sara Frank Bristow
I arrived at the OER Research Hub on 7 October 2013, intent on diving immediately into a study examining the Hub’s Hypothesis J: that Participation in OER pilots and programs leads to policy change at the institutional level. I dramatically underestimated how overstimulating an environment I’d find the Open University (and…
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Public Access to Publicly Funded Materials: What Could Be
Here’s a reblog that’s worth checking out. OER Research Hub fellow Bill Meinke makes the case for open models of research, dissemination and education with the help of some nice (although possibly a bit contentious) graphics to explain the potential benefits of open policies. Public Access to Publicly Funded Materials:…