[Open-education] OER / Open Policy Letter to President Obama

Tue Aug 4 18:55:38 UTC 2015

Hi Bjoern:

TBD.

The President could limit the open licensing policy to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_executive_departments

   - USAID reports to the US Secretary of State:
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State

Or make the policy broadly required to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_agencies_in_the_United_States

Cable

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Bjoern Hassler <bjohas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Cable,
>
> that's great!
>
> I assume USAID funded (educational) resources would come under this? I
> assume yes, because in "The educational, training, and instructional
> materials covered by the Order should include any unclassified information
> resource created, in whole or in part, with Federal funds designed to
> educate, instruct, train or inform." the emphasis is on "Federal funds
> designed to educate" without reference to where this education might take
> place?
>
> Thanks to all involved in this!
> Bjoern
>
>
>
> On 4 August 2015 at 17:06, Cable Green <cable at creativecommons.org> wrote:
>
>> Greetings Open Education and Open Policy Colleagues:
>>
>> *Apologies for the cross postings.*
>>
>> While this is a US government open education / open policy update … I
>> thought it would be interesting to non-US groups as well.
>>
>> Today, a broad coalition of more than 90 organizations representing the
>> education, library, technology, public interest and legal communities released
>> a letter <http://www.oerusa.org/> calling on President Obama to open up
>> educational materials created with federal taxpayer funds.
>>
>> The coalition asks the President to commit to an Executive Branch-wide
>> policy to ensure that federally funded educational and training resources
>> are made available as Open Education Resources (OER) that are free for the
>> public to use, share, and improve. The letter is a response to the White
>> House's call for ideas
>> <https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/06/04/help-us-strengthen-open-government> to
>> improve the U.S. Open Government National Action Plan, which is currently
>> under development for release later this year.
>>
>> Many of the groups on this list are original signatories on the letter,
>> and special thanks go to SPARC, U.S. PIRG, New America, Creative Commons
>> US, and Creative Commons HQ for jointly coordinating the effort.
>>
>> Read and download the letter here: www.oerusa.org <http://www.oerusa.org>
>>
>> Please help share the news on social media with hashtag #OERUSA
>>
>> CC blog post <http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/45872>
>>
>> Warm regards,
>>
>> Cable
>>
>> *(remix from a note sent to “OER Advocacy” by: Nicole Allen, SPARC)*
>>
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>>
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