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Advancing OER Through
Effective Policy
Amanda Coolidge
@acoolidge
#OTsummit17 • May 24, 2017
Nicole Allen
@txtbks

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License.
Feel free to use, modify or distribute any or all
of this presentation with attribution.

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What is OER
Policy?

4.
OER policies are laws, rules and
courses of action that facilitate the
creation, use or improvement of openly
licensed content.

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http://open.canada.ca/en

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Yours?
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Impact and
Examples

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OER policy in
government

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$2 billion grant program for
workforce training that
requires CCBY license for
all resources created

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“…the United States will
openly license more
Federal grant supported
education materials and
resources, making them
widely and freely
available.”

10.
Department of Education
wide policy requiring open
licensing of grant funded
works

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Every Student Succeeds Act (P.L. 114-95)

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OER Legislation Since 2015

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Think of policies as tools,
not goals

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A policy is only as good as
its implementation

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OER policy at
institutions

16.
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."
UBC TENURE

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BCcampus Grant Statement

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Common Characteristics:
1. Specific and address a need
2. Developed collaboratively with
stakeholders
3. Make process public and transparent
4. Provide and allow for feedback
5. Evaluation and how do we evaluate
(data and stories)
6. How do we change if not working?
7. How will be policy be enforced?

19.
What are the challenges you
and/or your institution are
facing with OER, and what kind
of policy changes would help?
Report out 1 idea and 1 action
you can take to make it
happen.

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Amanda Coolidge
@acoolidge
Nicole Allen
@txtbks