Category Archives: policy

OER Policy Registry: Request for Help

Posted on March 26, 2012 by geoffcain

Image via CrunchBaseCable Green just lit the Bat Signal! Greetings Open Colleagues, The open community shares a need for more information to help us with our work. We know, for example, that there are many policies supporting open education at … Continue reading →

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Call for Open Education Practices

Posted on November 16, 2011 by geoffcain

Image by Matthias Ripp via Flickr This is from Abel Caine: UNESCO is a member of the Open Educational Quality Initiative (OPAL) which aimed to create a new open educational practices (OEP) framework. Open educational practices were defined as practices … Continue reading →

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Open Ed Conf. Keynotes: Cable Green & Philipp Schmidt

Posted on October 27, 2011 by geoffcain

Image via CrunchBaseThe Obviousness of Open PolicySpeakers: Cable GreenThe Internet, increasingly affordable computing, open licensing, open access journals and open educational resources provide the foundation for a world in which a quality education can be a basic human right. Yet … Continue reading →

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Open Access Week

Posted on October 8, 2010 by geoffcain

Image via WikipediOPen  Open Access Week is happening  Oct. 18 – 22. I am particularly interested in it because it is a chance to hear leaders in the field of open education resources, such as Wayne Mackintosh, the director of … Continue reading →

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