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Jöran Muuß-Merholz

Coalition Letter to President Obama Calling for OER Policy Commitment | SPARC - 0 views

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  • August 4, 2015 President Barack Obama
  • organizations from the education, library, technology, public interest and legal communities
  • Office of Science and Technology Policy's call for ideas to strengthen the U.S. Open Government National Action Plan
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  • 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
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

It's Time to Open Up Access to Taxpayer Funded Educational Materials | SPARC - 0 views

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  • August 04, 2015Author: Nicole Allen
  • Today, a broad coalition of more than 90 organizations representing the education, library, technology, public interest and legal communities
  • calling on President Obama to open up educational materials created with federal taxpayer funds
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  • ensure that federally funded educational and training resources are made available as Open Educational Resources (OER)
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

cable green - Creative Commons - 1 views

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  • Jöran Muuß-Merholz on 20 Aug 12
     
    Cable Green Director of Global Learning for Creative Commons
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

U.S. Department of Education Announces First-Ever Adviser to Expand Access to Open Digi... - 0 views

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  • September 16, 2015
  • The U.S. Department of Education announced today the hiring of the first ever open education adviser to lead a national effort to expand schools’ access to high-quality, openly-licensed learning resources
  • Marcinek will serve in the Office of Educational Technology (OET) and focus on helping both K-12 and higher education connect with teaching, learning and research resources in the public domain that are freely available to anyone over the web
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  • Open educational resources are an important element of an infrastructure for learning and ranges from podcasts to digital libraries to textbooks and games
  • penly licensed learning resources
  • frees up funding to support the transition to digital learning
  • a visit to Williamsfield Community School District in Illinois, where U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan stopped as part of his annual back-to-school bus tour
  • produced with public funds or foundation grants
  • there likely will be other rules – such as curricular standards – that limit who can update or change the content of the resource for use in the classroom or by others.
  • let the applicable rules defining appropriate uses of educational resources to come from educators and not publishers
  • Are the materials that the Williamsfield School District is using fully open? No. Most of the materials in the EngageNY collection for example use one of the most restrictive Creative Commons license.
  • Cable Green, September 15th, 2015
  • the progress the rural school district has made in shifting to digital and open educational resources (OER) to connect their students to the world. “The walls break down,” Zack Binder, the Pre K-12 Principal said. “You’re no longer in Williamsfield, Illinois. You have the same access to this information that anyone in the world does.”
  • er the past two years, the 310-student district decided to adapt and adopt OER
  • Secretary Duncan announced today the hiring of the Department’s first full-time OER position to lead a national effort to expand schools’ access to high-quality, openly-licensed learning resources and help districts and states follow the path of Williamsfield. 
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