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  • The Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest

    The Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, August 25-27, 2011, convened over 180 experts from 32 countries and six continents to help re-articulate the public interest dimension in intellectual property law and policy. The Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest records the conclusions from the Congress. It has received more than 755... more

  • Open Access Business Models for Research Funders and Universities

    This study covers the types of business model used for open access to publicly-funded research content. Various organizational structures developed to offer open access to publicly-funded research content are examined from the perspective of publicly-funded institutions and organizations. Business models for publicly-funded institutions can be built from elements which a commercial business... more

  • A Study of Four Textbook Distribution Models

    In preparation for campus-wide e-text adoption, Daytona State College completed a two-year comparative study of four textbook distribution models: print purchase, print rental, e-text rental, and e-text rental with e-reader device. Though faculty and administrators may embrace e-texts, students often prefer to rent printed textbooks. Institutions seeking to implement campus-wide e-text... more

  • 'Going to Scale': Nuturing the Roots of Education Innovation in Africa

    Start small but think big. That is an attractive approach to innovation and reform for education in Africa, where available resources often cannot meet expanding demand, schools are under-equipped, well prepared teachers and effective instructional materials are in short supply, and both access and quality remain uneven among different segments of the population. 'Going to scale' has proved... more

  • TESSA Working with Teachers: A Handbook for Teacher Educators

    TESSA provides collaboratively developed open educational resources (OERs) for teachers to use in their own classroom to support active learning methods and reflective practice. This handbook is for teacher educators and others involved in planning and delivery of teacher development whether formal or less formal, and in a range of settings. It provides guidance and starting points on using... more

  • Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Open Educational Resources: Issues for Globalization and Localization

    This symposium stems from a long-time work group on Technology and Education. It was born out of a set of concerns on how OER can be accessed, reused, revised, remixed, and distributed effectively. The concerns are mostly based in two fields: first, a technical concern in the infrastructures necessary to produce and disseminate ever more flexible resources; second, cultural concern with the... more

  • Guidelines for Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Education

    The guidelines outline key issues and suggestions for integrating OER into higher education to support quality teaching and learning. The aim of this document, prepared by the Secretariat, is to encourage educational stakeholders to invest in the production, adaptation, and use of OER, and to improve the quality of curricula and teaching. more

  • A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources (OER)

    This Guide comprises three sections. The first – a summary of the key issues – is presented in the form of a set of ‘Frequently Asked Questions’. Its purpose is to provide readers with a quick and user-friendly introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) and some of the key issues to think about when exploring how to use OER most effectively. The second section is a more comprehensive... more

  • Open Courseware, Open Content, Open Practices, Open Learning: Where are the Limits?

    The first part of the paper reports on the outcomes of a joint UNESCO-COL project Taking OERs beyond the OER Community: Policy and Capacity. Its purpose was to expand understanding of the potential of OERs among university leaders and quality assurance officials in Africa and Asia, who have low awareness of this phenomenon. The project concluded with an intergovernmental policy forum where... more

  • Open Educational Practices and Resources: OLCOS Roadmap 2012

    As a Transversal Action under the European eLearning Programme, the Open e-Learning Content Observatory Services (OLCOS) project carries out a set of activities that aim at fostering the creation, sharing and re-use of Open Educational Resources (OER) in Europe and beyond. OER are understood to comprise content for teaching and learning, software-based tools and services, and licenses that... more

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