{"id":244,"date":"2012-03-26T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/oer-policy-registry-request-for-help\/"},"modified":"2012-03-26T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T21:45:00","slug":"oer-policy-registry-request-for-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/oer-policy-registry-request-for-help\/","title":{"rendered":"OER Policy Registry: Request for Help"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Image<\/a>Image via CrunchBase<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span>Cable Green just lit the Bat Signal!<\/p>\n

Greetings Open Colleagues,<\/p>\n

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 institutions and governments throughout the world. Many of us know of some of these policies, but it would be extremely helpful if we had a single database of open education policies that the entire community could access and update.<\/p>\n

To meet this goal, Creative Commons has received a small grant to create an \u201cOER Policy Registry.\u201d The Open Educational Resources (OER) Policy Registry will be a place for policymakers 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.<\/p>\n

The open movement is reaching a stage where we\u2019ve had some real, concrete OER policy victories<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

Please join the effort:
(1)<\/b> Contribute any OER policies you know about via this Google form<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n