Keynote 2: Fostering Governmental Support for OER Internationally

Abstract

Sir John Daniel, Commonwealth of Learning

Abstract: In 2009 both UNESCO’s World Conference of Higher Education and its General Conference urged that awareness of the importance of OER for achieving global educational goals should be extended beyond the active groups of OER users and producers. The presentation will report on two joint projects that have been conducted by the Commonwealth of Learning and UNESCO with this aim. In 2010-2011, they ran nine workshops for educational decision makers in Africa and Asia and produced two documents: A Basic Guide to OER and Guidelines for OER in Higher Education. Their current project, Fostering Governmental Support for OER Internationally has three components: a survey of all governments about their policies and intentions regarding OER; the holding of regional policy forums, like this one for Europe, in all UNESCO regions; and the organisation of the World OER Congress in Paris in June 2012. The paper will include a summary of the responses to the survey received to date from countries in UNESCO’s Europe region.

Slide contents

  • - Introduction
  • Fostering Governmental Support for OER Internationally
  • Fostering Governmental Support for Open Educational Resources Internationally
  • PLAN
  • The World Conference on Higher Education Paris
  • Professor Mandla Makhanya
  • Regional Policy Forum for Europe
  • MIT 2001 OCW
  • UNESCO HQ Paris
  • OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (OER)
  • Declaration
  • UNESCO-IIEP
  • WSIS Platform OER Community
  • BUT…
  • The World Conference on Higher Education
  • Workshops
  • col.org/resources
  • Larry Lessig
  • 17 countries reported on their OER policies/intentions
  • Europe Regional Policy Forum Cambridge, UK – April 2012
  • Regional Policy Forums
  • ICT in Education Leadership Forum in the Caribbean & Caribbean OER Policy Forum
  • Africa Policy Forum Pretoria (February 2012)
  • PLAN
  • 17 countries reported on their OER policies/intentions
  • Canada
  • 17 African Nations reported on their Status of OER
  • 10 Latin American Nations reported on their Status of OER
  • The Economist
  • Publishing obscure academic journals
  • PLAN
  • World Conference on OER Paris, June 2012
  • Paris Declaration on OER
  • Paris Declaration on OER #2
  • Paris Declaration on OER #3
  • The Paris Declaration
  • Impact
  • Thank You
  • Thank You