Presentation of Gijs Houwen and Alek Tarkowski on Open Policies. Part of the workshop Getting started with Open Education

1. Open Policy
Why do we need policies for Open Education?
Alek Tarkowski, Creative Commons Poland
Gijs Houwen, Delft University of Technology
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2. Agenda
• Why Open policy?
• OER Policies - Examples
• What’s in a Policy?
• Types of Policy
• Open Policy Guidelines
• Practical: Outline your own Policy
• Discussion: Questions and Feedback
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3. Why policies for Open Education?
• Inspiration from Open Access movement: top-
down policies necessary to provide scale.
• Just as important are:
– grassroots activities
– infrastructure
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4. OER Policies
• Policies can be defined and applied at different
levels of educational system:
– International (Paris Declaration)
– National / regional (Open Scotland)
– Consortia (OCW Consortium)
– Institutional (Hewlett Foundation)
– Binding / Non-binding
– Formal / Non-formal
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5. What’s in a policy?
• An OER policy should define:
– Licensing standard
– Technical requirements (most importantly, related
to storing and making available resources)
– Other standards (format, accessibility)
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6. OER policy - Licensing
• Hewlett Foundation: „OER are teaching, learning, and
research resources that reside in the public domain or have
been released under an intellectual property license that
permits their free use and re-purposing by others.”
• UNESCO, Paris Declaration: „teaching, learning and
research materials in any medium, digital or otherwise, that
reside in the public domain or have been released under an
open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation
and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.”
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7. Open Policy - Guidelines
• Case Study Library:
– Best Practice
– Different levels of policy
– Lessons learned and advice
– Open Toolkits
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8. Open Policy - Guidelines
1. Starting point
2. Goal: What do you want?
3. Why Open Policy?
4. What type of policy?
5. How to Realize?
6. How to Implement?
7. How to Evaluate?
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9. Open Policy - Practical
• Group work: Create an outline for your Policy
(20 min.)
– Focus on process as well as policy
– Be pragmatic
– Policy vs. Practice
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10. Open Policy - Discussion
• Questions?
• Problems?
• Feedback?
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