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"UNESCO and Commonwealth of Learning are two global organisations that are championing the open learning cause and have just published the results of a major survey: Survey on Governments' Open Educational Resources (OER) Policies. They sent out a questionnaire to all 195 UNESCO member states asking them whether they had any policies concerning the use of OER in the country's schools and universities. Less than half (82) of these countries replied in time but the results show that there are countries who are taking open education seriously and beginning to form national strategies around the open sharing of educational material. "

"This Open Education project has two main strands: We are developing an e-book which will be a collection of university academics' narratives about their experiences of learning and teaching in their discipline. We are engaging with institutional policy surrounding OER resources as well afunding OERs."

"Welcome to Introduction to Openness in Education, Winter 2012. This course provides a broad overview of the ways in which openness impacts many areas of education - curriculum, instruction, learning, policy, technology, research, and finance. "

"University libraries are well positioned to run or support OER production and publication operations. Many university libraries already have the technical, service, and policy infrastructure in place that would provide economies of scale for nascent and mature OER projects. Given a number of aligning factors, the University of Michigan (U-M) has an excellent opportunity to integrate Open.Michigan, its OER operation, into the University Library. This paper presents the case for greater university library involvement in OER projects generally, with U-M as a case study."

"talk by Hal Plotkin, Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of the Under Secretary of Education in the United States Department of Education. The title of his talk was "Meeting President Obama's 2020 College Graduation Goal - The Role of Open Educational Resources," but his focus was actually on how to foster a culture of sharing among academics, including the very important role that government policymaking has to play. "

The European Commission called for increased use of open education to be "scaled-up in all learning contexts".

"Ten comments related to digital learning resources of potential relevance to the development of the World Bank's new guidelines for textbooks and reading materials"