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collections, Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and
research resources that reside in the public domain, or carry a license
that permits their free access and use by all users. Like the Open Access
movement, the aim of many OER proponents is for anyone, anytime, anywhere
to be able to access and contribute to the advancement of knowledge.

Since being ignited in 2001 by MIT=92s ambitious OpenCourseWare
project<http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm>,
the OER movement has rapidly grown in scope and intensity, with successful
projects initiatives springing up around the world. Over the past 12
months, OER=92s have achieved even greater visibility with adoption of the
2012 Paris OER Declaration at the recent UNESCO congress, and the passage
of the first U.S. Open Source Textbook legislation by the California State
Senate.

A panel of three OER experts will talk about these developments and much
more  - including the basics of OERs, the sate of important current OER
initiatives, the relevance of OERs to the library community, and the
intersections of OER and Open Access.

Featured speakers will include:

=95 Nicole Allen: Director of the Make Textbooks Affordable project at
Student PIRGs (Public Interest Research Groups)

=95 Dr. Daniel Mietchen: Wikimedian in Residence on Open Science at the Ope=
n
Knowledge
Foundation Germany;

=95 Cable Green: Director of Global Learning for Creative Commons for
Creative Commons

To accommodate interest in every time zone, this 1-hour event will be
recorded and available on our website shortly afterwards.

Please join us for lively and interaction discussion. For additional
information, contact SPARC=92s Communication=92s Manager, Andrea Higginboth=
am
at andrea [at] arl [dot] org.

Please feel free to post preliminary comments and questions for the
panelists on the OA Week
Website<http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/ask-preliminary-questi=
ons-to-panelists-for-upcoming-webcast-conne>.
And make sure to join Open Access Week Events at www.openaccessweek.org.

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Timothy Vollmer
http://creativecommons.org/about/people/#timothyvollmer
phone =3D +016086982403 | skype =3D timothyvollmer | tw =3D @tvol

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