Development of National OER Strategies

29 October 2009São Paulo, Brazil

Outline

Open Society Institute Introduction to OER Examples of OER Projects National OER Initiatives

Open Society Institute

Private, grant-making foundation funded by George Soros which aims to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform

Annual budget: $700 million Network of national/regional

foundations in 67 countries

Information Program

Open Access Defined in 2002 through the Budapest

Open Access Initiative Today over 100 mandates world-wide

NIH ($29 billion annually) Open Access to Law Open Education

Open Educational Resources

Digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research.*

*UNESCO. 2002. Forum on the impact of Open Courseware for higher education in developing countries. Final report. Paris: UNESCO.

Open Educational Resources

Learning Content: Full courses, courseware, textbooks, content modules, and learning objects.

Tools: Software to support the development, use, re-use and delivery of learning content.

Implementation Resources: Intellectual property licenses to promote open publishing of materials and localization of content.

Open Educational Resources Reference materials:

Open textbooks/learning materials:

Open courses:

Strategies for OE

Open education policy: Governments, school boards, and universities should make taxpayer-funded educational resources OER.

Open content licenses: OER should be freely shared through open licenses which facilitate use, revision, translation, improvement and sharing.

Collaborative production: Educators and students can participate in creating, using, adapting and improving OER.

Strategies

Policy Public Access to publicly funded

educational materials (building on top of Open Access)

Economic Impact of OER Project – Collaborative production of

OER Build Coalitions – teachers,

librarians, CC, WMF

National OER Strategies

Brazil The Netherlands South Africa Poland New Zealand United States

Brazil

Awareness raising OER Conference, October 2009 Preparing Strategy for further

development of national OER policy OER Brazil Tool-kit for teachers

(collaboration w/UNESCO) Economic research

The Netherlands

Collaborative project with government and teachers

Wikiwijs – Ministry of Education Open University of the Netherlands Kennisnet

South Africa

Collaborative project withteachers

Siyavula Shuttleworth Foundation Open textbooks (online and print) for

full South African K-12 curriculum Community building Connexions Open Press

Poland Awareness raising, policy and

collaborative project with teachers Open Education Coalition

Creative Commons Poland Polish Librarians Association Modern Poland Foundation Wikimedia Poland

OER Conference in Polish Parliament, April 2009

Ministries of National Education, Culture, Science & Higher Education

Open Textbook Project, k-12

New Zealand

Collaborative project with gov and teachers

To foster the development of a sustainable OER ecosystem for New Zealand

Ministry of Education & Open Education Foundation

WikiEducator 2009-2011

United States

Policy Federal

Community Colleges’ initiative – $50 million for the development of Open Online Courses

Bills on OER – House & Senate Senator Durbin: Open College Textbook Act (S.

1714) Rep. Foster: Learning Opportunities with Creation

of Open Source Textbooks (H.R. 1464) State

California’s Digital Textbook Initiative Virginia’s OER Community College Grant

Fund

Thanks

Melissa HagemannInformation ProgramOpen Society Institutemhagemann@sorosny.org