[Open-education] 2015 “State of the Commons” report: need your help re: Open Education!

Thu Oct 8 03:35:51 UTC 2015

re: Open Textbooks savings data.

Please also provide a 1-2 sentence description of your methodology for
calculating open textbook savings.

Thank you,

Cable

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On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Cable Green <cable at creativecommons.org>
wrote:

> Greetings Open Education Friends:
>
> Last year Creative Commons published its first State of the Commons
> <http://stateof.creativecommons.org> report, which included preliminary
> data on the impact open textbooks and open education policies were having
> in education around the world. We are now working on the 2015 State of the
> Commons report -- and we need your help!
>
> If you or your organization have data you want included in the "2015 State
> of the Commons" report, please send us your information by Friday, 30
> October 2015.
>
> Here is the data we need:
>
>
>    1.
>
>    Savings generated by Open Textbooks:
>    1.
>
>       Please name and provide a link to your open textbook project(s).
>       2.
>
>       How much has your open textbook project saved students / teachers /
>       schools to date (total / aggregate #)?
>       3.
>
>       How much will your open textbooks project save in 2015-2016?
>       4.
>
>       Please provide sources for these numbers (fine if your org is the
>       source).
>       5.
>
>       Are these sources publicly available online? If not, can they be
>       made publicly available by CC?
>
>       2.
>
>    Open Education Policies:
>    1.
>
>       Does your country have open education policies at the national,
>       provincial / state, system, and/or institution level?
>
>
>    -
>
>       Examples of open education policies might include, but are not
>       limited to:
>       -
>
>          Open licensing policy: a funding policy where the products of
>          grants and/or contracts are required to be openly licensed.
>          -
>
>          Open education legislation or institutional policies that
>          support the adoption, creation and/or review of OER.
>          - Open education policies that support the shift to open
>          practices / pedagogy / praxis.
>          -
>
>          OER highlighted in your nation's Open Government Partnership
>          "national action plan" and/or other national, regional, system or
>          institution education strategies or plans.
>          -
>
>       Please name and provide a link to each policy.
>       -
>
>       Please indicate level of policy (national, provincial / state,
>       system and/or institution).
>
>
>
>    1.
>
>       Money flowing through Open Licensing Policies?
>       1.
>
>          How much money has been disbursed through grants and/or
>          contracts with an open licensing policy / requirement to date (total /
>          aggregate #)?
>          2.
>
>          How much money will flow through grants / contracts with an open
>          policy requirement in 2015-2016?
>          3.
>
>          Please provide sources for these numbers (fine if your org is
>          the source).
>          4.
>
>          Are these sources publicly available online? If not, can they be
>          made publicly available by CC?
>
>
> We look forward to including your good work in the 2015 State of the
> Commons <http://stateof.creativecommons.org> report!
>
>
> Please reply (off-list) to:
>
>    - cable at creativecommons.org
>    - janepark at creativecommons.org
>
> Most gratefully,
>
>
> Cable
>
>
> --
>
> Cable Green, PhD
> Director of Global Learning
> Creative Commons
> @cgreen <http://twitter.com/cgreen>
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