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Open Educational Resources Experiences from the Commonwealth of Learning
Trudi van WykDirector: Career Development and Open Learning
Department of Higher Education and Training
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COL OER POLICY
The Commonwealth of Learning: • recognises and promotes OER in support of quality teaching and learning,
as one tool for using technology to increase equity in access to education; • facilitates collaboration among institutions, governments and
organisations in the use of OER; • promotes relevant capacity strengthening processes for stakeholders; and • shapes and promotes new models for OER generation, publication, access
and re-use.It will therefore: • encourage and support governments and institutions to establish
supportive policy frameworks to introduce practices relating to OER; • advocate the merits of collaboratively creating, sharing and using OER, as
one form of intellectual capital in education, to improve quality and enhance long-term cost-effectiveness; and
• release its own materials under the most feasible open licenses including the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license.
Subject Areas:Arts 2241 Business 1218 Humanities 7722 Mathematics & Statistics 8938 Science & Technology 19051 Social Sciences 6684
Grade Levels: Primary 7347 Secondary 20430 Post-secondary 25311
What’s available?Materials Types: Activities and Labs 10454 Assessments 2133 Audio Lecture 812 Curriculum Standards 4657 Discussion Forums 99 Full Course 4085 Games 345 Homework & Assignments 3218 Lecture Notes 2228 Lesson Plans 5281 Readings 9895 Simulations 4562 Syllabi 6298 Teaching & Learning Strategies 2663 Textbooks 851 Training Materials 1125 Video Lectures 4102
Source: Audrey Watters; information from OER Commons
TAKING OER BEYOND THE OER COMMUNITY: POLICY AND CAPACITY
• Launched in 2010 • Aim of increasing the level of understanding of OER by
educational decision makers and quality assurance experts so as to promote their wider use
• Six advocacy and capacity-strengthening workshops (in Africa and Asia)
• Three online forums• Policy forum on OER in December 2010 in Paris to reflect
on progress and chart the next steps in the process. The policy forum recommended that COL and UNESCO develop policy guidelines to support the integration of OER into higher education
TAKING OER BEYOND THE OER COMMUNITY: POLICY AND CAPACITY
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FOSTERING GOVERNMENTAL SUPPORT FOR OER INTERNATIONALLY
• Awareness raising• Information gathering
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• 6 Regional Forums• World OER Congress – June 2012• Paris Declaration
World OER Congress 20 – 22 June 2012
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