Thank you, Anil. I will review all of the links this week.
Most gratefully, Cable On Mar 26, 9:45 pm, Anil Prasad <aplett...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Cable, > > A concerted effort to consolidate the documentation on legal frameworks > supporting open education is highly appreciated! It is very essential as > well. Definitely it will encourage further legislation and adoption. > Towards this aim a project was started in Wikiresearcher - Research on the > Legal Frameworks for Open Educational Resources (OERLF) -, but did not go > much ahead :). However the links added there by the community may be useful > in the current project as well. Seehttp://wikiresearcher.org/Oerlf/references > -- > Warm regards > > Anilhttp://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasadhttp://www.apletters.blogspot.com > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 5:20 AM, Cable Green <ca...@creativecommons.org>wrote: > > > > > > > > > Greetings Open Colleagues, > > > The open community shares a need for more information to help us with > > our work. We know, for example, there are many policies supporting > > open education at institutions and governments throughout the world. > > Many of us know some of these policies, but it would be extremely > > helpful if we had a single database of open education policies, from > > around the world, that the entire community could access and update. > > > To meet this goal, Creative Commons (CC) has received a small grant to > > create an “OER Policy Registry.” The Open Education Resources (OER) > > Policy Registry will be a place for policy makers and open advocates > > to easily share and update OER legislation, OER institutional policies > > and supporting OER policy resources. We have begun to enter OER > > policies into the registry, but we need your help to make it a truly > > useful global resource. > > > The open movement is reaching a stage where we've had some real, > > concrete OER policy victories and there is the potential to achieve > > many more. Sharing our collective knowledge of existing OER policies, > > in the same way we believe in sharing educational resources, will help > > advocates and policymakers worldwide be more successful. > > > Will you please: > > > (1) Contribute any OER policies you know about on this form. > >http://goo.gl/9TmUV > > > We are collecting both legislative AND institutional (non- > > legislative) OER policies from around the world. Your form submissions > > will be added to this draft list of OER policies. > > > (2) Review the draft list of OER policies.http://goo.gl/i6i9W > > > If any entries need to be fixed, please email us at > > o...@creativecommons.org > > > (3) Forward this message to your colleagues, to your lists, blogs, and > > other channels, to ensure that we get as much input as possible. As > > the OER movement is global, it is critical that we capture OER > > policies from around the world. > > > Everyone can add OER policies to the google form for the next month. > > Beginning on May 1, the OER Policy Registry will move to the Creative > > Commons (CC) Wiki. Anyone will be able to edit the OER Policy Registry > > on the CC Wiki, and all wiki text will be licensed under CC BY. > > > We're starting with a google form because (a) it's easy and (b) wikis > > require you to create an account before editing, and that may be a > > barrier to participation. > > > CC is in contact with other projects that started to collect similar > > information, including UNESCO, CoL, the Florida Distance Learning > > Consortium, EU OCW and a project in New Zealand. We will add OER > > policy data they gather as it becomes available. If anyone knows of > > other efforts to gather OER policies, please send them to Anna Daniel: > > a...@creativecommons.org and we will reach out to them too. > > > If you have any suggestions or feedback on the content and/or > > framework, please let us know. > > > Warmest regards and thank you! > > > Cable > > > PS: CC Blog post:http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/32072 > > > Cable Green, PhD > > Director of Global Learning > > Creative Commons > >http://creativecommons.org > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > > To visit wikieducator:http://www.wikieducator.org > > To visit the discussion forum:http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > > To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
