Open Education Week: March 10-15
Open Education Week is a celebration of the global Open Education Movement. Its purpose is to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide. Participation in all...
View ArticleTidewater Community College Associate Degree Using All OER Curriculum –...
[Cross posted from CCUSA, Link (CC-BY)] Today, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition organized a Congressional briefing on Open Educational Resources (OER) for Open Education Week....
View ArticleOpening Up Education: Slovenia As a Model State
Press Release: Republic of Slovenia Ministry of Education, Science and Sport The initiative Opening Up Slovenia was presented in the Grand Union Hotel in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on April 23, with the aim...
View ArticleEducational Resources Development: Mapping Copyright Exceptions and...
[Cross posted from the European Open Edu Policy Project, Link (CC-BY)] It is well known that the rules that allow for certain educational uses of copyrighted works under certain conditions without...
View ArticleCreative Commons and CCUSA Letter to Department of Education on Open...
[Cross posted from CCUSA, Link (CC-BY)] Today, Creative Commons and Creative Commons U.S.A. are sending a letter to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan supporting the Department of Education’s (DOE)...
View ArticleNew State-Level Policy Brief on Open Educational Resources
[Nicole Allen, SPARC, Link, (CC-BY)] A new briefing paper on state-level open educational resources policy was released yesterday by the Education Commission of the States (ECS), a non-partisan think...
View ArticlePostcard from the Open Educational Resources Workshop in Porto
[Reposted from oerpolicy.eu, Link, (CC-BY)] At the very beginning of October, Creative Commons’ OER policy project organised a two-day workshop in Porto, gathering 15 Open Education enthusiasts,...
View ArticleOpen Education Review Project
[John Hilton, Open Education Group, Link] This review provides a summary of all known empirical research on the impacts of OER adoption (including our own). The version originally published here in...
View ArticleOpen Textbooks: The Billion Dollar Solution
Report by Ethan Senack for the Student PIRGs Full report here, (CC-BY) Executive Summary: According to the College Board, the average undergraduate student should budget between $1,200 and $1,300 for...
View ArticleOpen Education Week: Global Event Celebrates the Impact of Open Education on...
Annual Open Education Week March 9-13, 2015 [Open Education Consortium press release] The annual Open Education Week gets underway on Monday, March 9 with the theme The World Wants to Learn. Open...
View ArticleCreative Commons Licenses Opening Access to Education in Sub-Saharan Africa...
[Cross posted from the CCUSA blog, Link (CC-BY)] In all my time with Creative Commons, I’ve come to see that support comes from people across a wide spectrum of creators. For some, the Creative Commons...
View ArticleOpen Education and Open Educational Resources in Brazilian Public Policy
[Priscila Gonsales, Digital Rights LAC, Link, (CC-BY-SA)] After the industrial revolution, the information was primarily physical, printed: books, records, CDs, textbooks, encyclopedias, among other...
View ArticleSPARC Applauds Senate Committee Action on Public Access Legislation
SPARC press release, Link (CC-BY) Contact: Ranit Schmelzer 202-5380-1065 | sparcmedia@arl.org Washington, DC –The Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) today passed S....
View Article100+ Organizations to President: Ensure Federally Funded Educational...
Creative Commons USA and over 100 other groups have sent a letter to President Obama urging a policy to ensure that “educational materials created with federal funds… are made available to the public...
View ArticleStudents, Food Insecurity, OER
[Meera Nair, Fair Duty Blog, Link (CC-BY)] My last post focused on a very one-sided report bemoaning the fortunes (or lack thereof) of the educational publishing industry. That industry apparently...
View ArticleEuropean Migrant Crisis: Czech Teachers Create and Share Resources
[Jan Gondol, Creative Commons Blog, Link (CC-BY)] In the midst of the European migrant crisis, the Czech Republic is showing the power of open educational resources (OER). EDUin, a non-profit...
View ArticleWhite House Commits to Open Access, Open Education and Open Data in New Open...
[Nicole Allen, SPARC, Link (CC-BY)] Today the White House released its 2016-2017 Open Government National Action Plan, which includes commitments to expand access to open educational resources and the...
View ArticleSecuring User Rights in Education – Reflections from Our Policy Debate
[Cross posted from the Communia Assoc., Link (CC-0)] How to secure user rights in education? This was the question we asked during a policy debate organised by Communia and hosted by MEP Michał Boni in...
View ArticleOpen Educational Resources: A Catalyst for Innovation
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Link (CC-BY) Executive Summary: Education is the key to economic, social and environmental progress, and governments around the world are looking...
View ArticleStudent PIRGs Report on College Textbook Spending: Covering the Cost
Ethan Senack and Robert Donoghue Report for Student PIRGs (CC-BY) Full Study | Executive Summary Follows: Over the last decade, the cost of college textbooks has soared. Since 2006, the cost of a...
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