[Open-education] Policy debate and OER, copyright and education in the European Parliament on Nov 17 - Brussels

[Paul Bacsich Sero]

There is a breakfast policy debate on copyright and education, which Alek Tarkowski is organising (on behalf of Centrum Cyfrowe and Communia, the European Association on the Digital Public Domain) with Michał Boni (a Polish member of the EuroParliament from the EPP Group) on the 17 November, in the European Parliament in Brussels.

Sadly I cannot be there but maybe some others on our list can be? 

The European Parliament is often ignored by researchers who tend (for financial reasons) to be focussed on the European Commission but in fact the European Parliament commissions a number of studies on education and indeed on technology aspects of this.

In particular there was a report published earlier this year by the European Parliament on “Learning and teaching technology options” - http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2015/547407/EPRS_STU(2015)547407_EN.pdf  – and just last month was published my report for them on “Adult Education and Open Educational Resources” - http://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document.html?reference=IPOL_STU(2015)563397

Tw key recommendations of my report (the European Parliament insists on named authors, not teams or companies) were that:

“1) The Commission and Member States should adopt and recommend a standard Creative Commons license for all openly available educational and vocational training material they are involved in funding. 2) Member States should phase out use of the ‘NonCommercial’ restriction on content.”

Not all might agree with these but at least the recommendations were clear! (Normally in such reports the language is very vague, with ifs and buts rather than a specific recommendation for Creative Commons)

As usual, if anyone attends the debate and wishes to blog about it please let one of us know

Anyone attending should RSVP to Anna Stokowska (astokowska at centrumcyfrowe.pl).

For more details see http://oerpolicy.eu/please-join-us-in-brussels-for-policy-debate-on-copyright-and-education/

The original email from Alek follows this text.


Paul, on behalf of:

Paul Bacsich, Javiera Atenas, Elena Stojanovska
Editors, Open Education Working Group - http://education.okfn.org/blog/ 


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From: Alek Tarkowski 
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 10:28 AM
To: oer-advocacy-coalition at googlegroups.com 
Subject: [OER-advocacy] policy debate and OER, copyright and education in the European Parliament on Nov 17

Dear all, 

I am writing to inform you about a breakfast policy debate on copyright and education, which I am organising (on behalf of Centrum Cyfrowe and Communia, the European Association on the Digital Public Domain) with Michał Boni (a Polish member of the EuroParliament from the EPP Group) on the 17 November, in the European Parliament in Brussels

If you are in Brussels next week, please join us. I will also be grateful if you could forward this message to any contacts that you have in Brussels, who might be interested in this event.

Freedom to use educational resources in teaching is a fundamental issue in education. It can be ensured either by copyright rules or through sharing of Open Educational Resources (OER). The EC Communication on the modernisation of copyright rules has defined educational exceptions as an issue that requires action in the European reform planned for 2016. Also this month, OECD is publishing a new report on “Open Educational Resources. A Catalyst for Innovation”. 

The goal of our meeting is to highlight and discuss these two approaches. They are usually considered separately - I believe that in Europe, taking into account both the “Opening up Education” initiative and plans to reform copyright, it is important to formulate a strategy and recommendations for user rights in education that encompasses these two issues.

The debate will take place on the 17 November at 8.00-9.30 in one of the MEP Private Salons. We would be honoured to have you as a participant. I hope that issues related to education, including open education and the effects copyright has on educators will be of interest to you. You can RSVP to Anna Stokowska (astokowska at centrumcyfrowe.pl).

WWW: Please join us in Brussels for policy debate on copyright and education

Best,

Alek Tarkowski

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dyrektor, Centrum Cyfrowe Projekt: Polska
Twitter: @atarkowski 
WWW: centrumcyfrowe.pl / creativecommons.pl 


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