With Cable Green, Kristina Peters, Igor Lesko, Ishan Abeywardena

2. June Open Perspective
What is Open Policy?
https://www.yearofopen.org/
#yearofopen

3. What is Open Policy?
Discussion by:
Amanda Coolidge, Cable Green, Ishan
Abeywardena, Kristina Peters, and Igor Lesko

4. Open Policies in B.C.
and OER Development
Tool
• Amanda Coolidge
• OEC Webinar
• June 14, 2017

5. UBC Tenure Track
Educational Leadership, section 3.4.1, one of
the bullets says:
"Contributions to the practice and theory of
teaching and learning literature, including
publications in peer-reviewed and professional
journals, conference publications, book
chapters, textbooks and open education
repositories / resources."

6. BCcampus Grant Statement

8. http://policy.lumenlearning.com

10. Open Education
Licensing Policies

11. What is the Problem?
• Governments and public
universities use public funds to
give grants / contracts for the
production of educational
resources.

12. What is the Problem?
• The default terms on those
publicly funded educational
resources is typically all rights
reserved copyright.

13. What is the Problem?
• Because these educational
resources are not openly
licensed, the public does not
have access to the works it
funded with public money (i.e.,
taxpayers do not have access
to the works they paid for).

14. What is the Solution?
• Governments and public
universities require, in their
education grants / contracts,
that publicly funded
educational resources be
openly licensed.

15. Publicly funded
resources should be
openly licensed
resources.

16. US Department of Education:
Open Licensing Rule in Effect
https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/06/us-doe-open-licensing

17. Money is Shifting to Open
• Governments
• Foundations
• Open license requirements
on grants and contracts…

18. Open Policy Barriers & Solutions
• Vision / Mission: align with values
• Open policy text: be clear, specific &
accurate
• Staff & grantees: teach & support
• CC Certificate for Government
• Federal Open Licensing Playbook
• Enforce the Policy: verify & follow-up
• Reuse / remix OER in future projects

19. http://oasis.col.org/handle/11599/2361
 Languages:
– English, French, Spanish,
Tamil
 Sections:
– Preamble
– Definitions
– Policy
• Policy Declaration
• Policy Statements
• Policy Objectives
• Scope and Applicability
• Copyrights and Licenses
• QA and Review System
• Liability
• Institutional Arrangements
@ishansa - Open Education Consortium's Open Education Policy Webinar on June 14, 2017

20. Sri Lanka
9 Provincial
Policies
58 Sensitized
Botswana
10 Regional
Guidelines
157 Sensitized
Cameroon
10 Regional
Guidelines
393 Sensitized
@ishansa - Open Education Consortium's Open Education Policy Webinar on June 14, 2017

21. http://oasis.col.org/
@ishansa - Open Education Consortium's Open Education Policy Webinar on June 14, 2017

22. Kristina Peters
Public Interest Technology & Ed Policy Fellow
@Mrskmpeters
#GoOpen:
Growing a
National Movement

23. 109 #GoOpen
Districts

24. 20 #GoOpen States● Arizona
● California
● Connecticut
● Delaware
● Georgia
● Illinois
● Indiana
● Maryland
● Massachusetts
● Michigan
● North Carolina
● Oklahoma
● Oregon
● Rhode Island
● Tennessee
● Utah
● Vermont
● Virginia
● Washington
● Wisconsin

25. Key Events
Open Education Symposium
October 2015
#GoOpen Exchange
February 2016
March 2017
#GoOpen Regional Summits
2016: MO, MA,CA,
2017: MS, IN, IA, DE

26. Key Resources
District Launch Packet
July 2016: V1.0
January 2017: V2.0
18 District Stories

27. Opportunities
● Coordinating Organization
● Regional Model Development
● Policy Analysis
● Research

28. Open Policy Webinar
PhD Research: Impact of International Organizations on Governmental OER Policies
• Registered PhD candidate at the Open University, the Netherlands (2014-2019)
• Member of the Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN)
• Supervisory Team:
- Prof. Dr. Fred Mulder
- Dr. Cable Green
- Dr. Dominic Orr
http://go-gn.net/
The William and Flora Hewlett
Foundation
Unless otherwise noted, Impact of International Organizations on Governmental OER Policies by Igor Lesko is licensed
under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

29. Aim of the PhD Research
Explore how International Organizations (IOs) are influencing Governmental OER
Policies around the world.
• What OER policy instruments can be identified as being used by different
IOs?
• What impact do IO OER policy instruments have on provincial, state and
national Governmental OER policies?
• What recommendations, if implemented, would lead to IO OER policy
instruments more effectively supporting governmental OER policies?

30. Protocoled Interviews with IOs
• Inter-governmental Organizations (IGOs): Commonwealth of Learning (COL),
European Commission (EC), Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD) & United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO)
• International Non-governmental Organizations (INGOs)/Associations: Creative
Commons, OER Africa, OER Asia & Open Education Consortium
• Foundations: Hewlett Foundation, Open Society Foundations & Shuttleworth
Foundation
• Interview questions related to: OER policy instruments used; priorities with respect to
the different actions; role in a collaboration with other IOs/stakeholders;
perceived/observed effectiveness; successes/challenges & plans for the future.
– Snapshot of results: Successes & Challenges
– Next steps