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NIACE to ensure sharability of learning materials created in Adult Community Learning Fund and Community Learning Innovation Fund (CLIF).

I have little doubt that many of the bar campers will go away and do good things and add them to the list.

there was no sign of a clear route or any kind of national or even regional strategy

new education fund that will grant $2 billion to create OER materials for career training programs in community colleges

Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan

Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant Program (TAACCCT)

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

How big business fights open education in Poland, and how open education fights back!

A well-funded black PR campaign is rages in Polish media in an attempt to convince parents and teachers (and through them, the government) to oppose e-textbooks.

how we (the Coalition for Open Education) try to fend off the well-funded and ruthless publishers' campaign

UNESCO is taking a leading role in "making countries aware of the potential of OER."[30]

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation,[16] which was the main financial supporter of open educational resources in the early years and has spent more than $110 million in the 2002 to 2010 period, of which more than $14 million went to MIT.[2] The Shuttleworth Foundation, which focuses on projects concerning collaborative content creation, has contributed as well. With the British government contributing £5.7m,[27] institutional support has also been provided by the UK funding bodies JISC[28] and HEFCE.[29]

Creative Commons, an organisation that provides ready-made licensing agreements that are less restrictive than the "all rights reserved" terms of standard international copyright, is a "critical infrastructure service for the OER movement."[26]

OPAL has been established through international organisations including UNESCO, ICDE and EFQUEL in order to establish a forum which works to build greater trust in using and promoting open educational resources. The project is part funded by the European Commission Education and Training Lifelong Learning Programme.

OPAL Initiative is a partnership between seven organizations including ICDE, UNESCO, European Foundation for Quality, the Open University UK, Aalto University and the Catholic University Portugal. It is led by the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany and partly funded by the European Commission.

The OPAL Initiative moves beyond the issue of access to open educational resources (OER), and focuses on innovation and quality through open educational practices (OEP). Existing approaches for fostering the use of OER have made achievements by focusing on building access to resources (MERLOT, MIT OpenCourseWare, Stanford iTunes,OpenLearn, Rice University, the UNESCO Open Training Platform, the UNESCO OER wiki) and licence models (Creative Commons). However, concerns over quality, the absence of trust on the part of learners and educators, and a lacking sense of ownership of the materials hinder wider acceptance of OER. OPAL seeks to build trust by establishing an environment for quality and Innovation through OEP.

in partnership with the European Commission

We want to work with you to develop your project and find the right investors for it

join the European Incubator for Innovation in Education

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

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

It happened to a degree with Wikipedia, Khan, YouTube, MOOCs, Duolingo but almost in spite of the OER movement.

a bifurcation in OER between lots of publically funded projects that tended to atrophy even die and a successful crop of global successes

strains of scepticism, institutional attitudes and a lack of awareness around marketing and sustainability in the educational community

With 45 million PLN (approx. 15 million USD) funding it has been the biggest governmental Open Educational Resources initiative in Poland so far

creating full set of educational materials for grades 4-6 (9-11 year olds

under CC BY license

June 6, 2017

Starting in FY 2018, education resources created with Department of Education discretionary competitive grants ($4.2 billion in FY 2016) must be openly licensed and shared with the public

Grantees must openly license to the public any grant deliverable that is created wholly or in part with Department competitive grant funds.

By Bill Gates | August 01, 2022

the disproportionate impact on low-income students