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Jöran Muuß-Merholz

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

www.sparc.arl.org/oerusa

OER openaccess OERUSA USA

shared by Jöran Muuß-Merholz on 06 Aug 15 - Cached
  • 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

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

www.sparc.arl.org/...oerusa-letter

OER openaccess OERUSA USA

shared by Jöran Muuß-Merholz on 06 Aug 15 - Cached
  • 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

White House Announces Open Education Initiative in Open Government Plan | SPARC - 1 views

www.sparc.arl.org/...nitiative-open-government-plan

OER USA OERfoerderung

shared by Jöran Muuß-Merholz on 30 Sep 14 - Cached
  • Yesterday President Obama announced a new initiative to promote open education as part of an update to the U.S. Open Government National Action Plan.
Juergen Plieninger

Open Education - SPARC - 0 views

sparcopen.org/open-education

oer sparc hochschule

shared by Juergen Plieninger on 04 Apr 19 - No Cached
  • Juergen Plieninger on 04 Apr 19
     
    Open Education encompasses resources, tools and practices that are free of legal, financial and technical barriers and can be fully used, shared and adapted in the digital environment. Open Education maximizes the power of the Internet to make education more affordable, accessible and effective.
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

What's Next for OpenCon: Putting Equity at the Core - OpenCon - 0 views

www.opencon2018.org/whats_next_for_opencon

shared by Jöran Muuß-Merholz on 10 Aug 19 - Cached
  • August 08, 2019
  • a shift in how SPARC supports OpenCon to reflect the OpenCon community’s evolution
  • reconfigured global meeting in 2020
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  • put equity at the core of its work
  • make research and education more open and equitable
  • OpenCon’s community has made it clear that equity is essential and inclusion is non-negotiable
  • In redesigning systems for creating and sharing knowledge to be open, we can address deep inequities in the current system.
  • Openness can enable equity, but does not ensure it. Equity can only be achieved by design, with accountability, and in partnership with those who have been excluded.
  • The goal is to move from conversations to commitments and to create accountability in making progress together
  • as a conduit with underrepresented groups to address inclusion
  • Over the next year, we will also focus on developing a long-term sustainability plan to provide the support the community needs
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