Hi Lorna and Cable

We are always seeking ways to leverage 'open' in England for example in consultations on UKPSF (academic professional skills framework), imminent TEF (teaching excellence framework) and the gov. inquiry on Higher Ed quality that closed today.

It would be useful to perhaps have a SIG webinar to draw together best examples of institutional / political persuasion from the US, Scotland and Wales who are all steaming ahead. I feel in England we have lost traction although there is an abundance of amazing work going on. So we have a slow creep, which is perhaps better than a big lurch, but it would be good to think more cohesively. (Sorry it is Halloween and I'm listening to the Monster Mash).

I welcome your thoughts, and I'm due to organise a webinar after OpenEd15 in November anyway. This would be ideal.

Best wishes

Viv

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Cable Green <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Great post, Lorna!

Let's do this in Scotland too ;)

Cable

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Lorna Campbell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hi Cable,

This is really great news. Well done to all involved! I’ve already written a short blog post about these developments on the Open Scotland blog: http://openscot.net/oer/us-federal-government-support-for-open-education/ I hope we can all encourage our own national bodies to follow suit.

All the best
Lorna

On 30 Oct 2015, at 17:26, Cable Green <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Greetings OER Colleagues:

Good news out of the U.S. Department of Education yesterday!
Proposed an agency-wide open policy for educational materials and other IP created with discretionary grant funds, including a strict definition of “open license” that specifies terms equivalent to the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY).
Launched a #GoOpen campaign to expand OER in PreK-12 schools.

For details, please see these resources ... and please help spread the word using #GoOpen and mention @usedgov
Creative Commons post: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/46345
https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/660140494589063168
https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/660141318778163204

SPARC post: http://www.sparc.arl.org/blog/us-education-department-proposes-open-licensing-policy-part-goopen-campaign

Open Policy Language: http://tech.ed.gov/files/2014/06/OET-Open-License-NPRM-FINAL-Web-Posting.pdf
ED Press Release: http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-education-launches-campaign-encourage-schools-goopen-educational-resources
#GoOpen Campaign Website: http://tech.ed.gov/open-education/
Who thinks they have a similar national / regional opportunity to make this happen in their country? Let's work together and make announcements like this all over the world.

Cheers,

Cable

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