"State of OER. Brazil and South Africa". Slides by Melissa Hagemann, presented at the "OER Policy Works!" workshop at Centrum Cyfrowe, on 18th of March 2014 in Warsaw, Poland.

1. B R A Z I L & S O U T H A F R I C A
State of OER

2. OER-Brazil
 Federal OER Bill, 2011 (Federal Bill 1513/2011)
 Proposed by House Representative Paulo Teixeira
 São Paulo Bill - The OER State Bill (Bill n. 989/2011)
 São Paulo City Decree
 Included OER in the National Plan of
Education, which sets the education strategy
for the country for the next 10 years

3. OER-Brazil

5. Siyavula
 Developing the 50 most important textbooks needed
for K12 science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics
 20 titles have already been developed
 Partner with companies who sponsor the development of a
textbook
 Working with the SA Department of Basic Education
 Dept of BE prints the textbooks and distributes them to
schools
 7 million textbooks distributed to date
 Expansion beyond SA