To ensure that the value of educational materials created with federal funds is maximized, we call upon the President to issue a strong Administration policy to ensure that they are made available to the public as Open Educational Resources to freely use, share, and build upon.
The Federal Government currently invests billions of taxpayer dollars each year in programs that include the creation of educational, training, and instructional materials through grants, contracts, and other cooperative agreements
While these materials are created for the public good, they are generally not open to the members of the public who paid for them
generalizing these program-specific policies
significant educational benefits
Governments in other countries are already taking meaningful steps to harness the power of Open Educational Resources
Poland
Canada
a strong Administration policy that will ensure that these valuable informational and educational assets created with Federal funds are unlocked and made available to the educators, students, investors, and innovators eager to put them to productive use.
A broad definition of educational materials
designed to educate, instruct, train or inform
concerning, for example, public health, the environment, or energy that could be adapted for educational use
Free access through the internet.
enable reuse.
Agencies should be required to implement this policy in no more than 12 months.
Agencies should report their progress and results to the Office of Science and Technology Policy
"Today, Creative Commons and a broad coalition of education, library, technology, public interest, and legal organizations are calling upon the White House to take administrative action to ensure that federally funded educational materials are made available as Open Educational Resources (OER) for the public to freely use, share, and improve."
Potentielle Themenstellungen für Projekte sind u.a. die Entwicklung eines an die Standards der staatlichen e-Technologien anschlussfähigen universitären e-Administration-Systems, prototypische Entwicklungen für die Transformation und Integration von Digital Skills in die Curricula, die Entwicklung eines österreichweiten Konzepts für die Ausbildung der Studierenden in Informatischem Basiswissen und Computational Thinking, die Schaffung einer zentralen Stelle zur Zertifizierung von Open Educational Resources (OER) oder die nachhaltige Implementierung der European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
"Potentielle Themenstellungen für Projekte sind u.a. die Entwicklung eines an die Standards der staatlichen e-Technologien anschlussfähigen universitären e-Administration-Systems, prototypische Entwicklungen für die Transformation und Integration von Digital Skills in die Curricula, die Entwicklung eines österreichweiten Konzepts für die Ausbildung der Studierenden in Informatischem Basiswissen und Computational Thinking, die Schaffung einer zentralen Stelle zur Zertifizierung von Open Educational Resources (OER) oder die nachhaltige Implementierung der European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
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Open Education is a collective term that is used to refer to many practices and activities that have both openness and education at their core.
First and foremost, open education is about removing barriers to education.
However it also reflects other cultural changes, such as the move to open up learning methods and practices, which sees the blurring or removal of traditional roles such as teacher and student, moving towards roles such as mentor and learner.
cannot award degrees nor provide academic or administrative support
integrated into open and distance education
courses, course materials, content modules, learning objects, collections, and journals
software
intellectual property licenses
materials on best practices
OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.
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