[Open-education] [OER] [OER-advocacy] Fiji OER policy

Thu Mar 31 08:21:39 UTC 2016

We are hoping for more information soon on Fiji’s new OER policy.

For information on the discussions leading up to this, see http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=299500

Paul Bacsich
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From: Shikha Raturi 
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Subject: Re: [Open-education] [OER] [OER-advocacy] Re: THREE IN FOUR U.S. TEACHERS SAY OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES ARE USED MORE OFTEN THAN TEXTBOOKS | TES Global

That sounds exciting -Thank you Priscilla for sharing about your workshop, would it be possible to share a link with details on this workshop. 

Recently, Fiji got its OER policy approved and I would like to share this with our colleagues who will be moving this agenda forward. 

Best
Shikha
Fiji Islands

On Thursday, 31 March 2016, 15:25, Priscila Gonsales <prigon at educadigital.org.br> wrote:

Tks, Nicole and Cable!  

For us here in Brazil it is the most important problem: to distinguish between "open" and "free"... 
Today we've organized the first co-creation workshop during a very important private social investment congress to prototype a OER pilot project to implement a special teacher training in São Paulo public schools to produce OER (teachers and students). The main point was to show to private Brazilian foundations and institutions there is a big difference between the both concepts. 

Best,
Priscila

2016-03-09 15:00 GMT-03:00 Cable Green <cable at creativecommons.org>:

  Agree - it will be helpful to see the methodology and study details / data.

  I have some friends at TES ... I'll ping them and will report back if I learn more.

  From Dubai,

  Cable

  On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Nicole Allen <textbooksnicole at gmail.com> wrote:

    Hi Priscila. To me this doesn’t look like a very rigorous survey with respect to OER. It’s done by a UK-based education technology company, and there isn't any information on the methodology or wording of the questions, which is suspect. They also make several factual errors in the press release, including how they describe US Department of Education policy and neglecting that textbooks can be open resources too. So, I suspect this probably doesn't distinguish between “open” and “free online”, and while the results may be meaningful in showing that teachers are moving *toward* more open resources (using free online resources is a first step), we should also beware of anything that promotes misunderstanding of what open means.  

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      On Mar 9, 2016, at 5:56 AM, Priscila Gonsales <prigon at educadigital.org.br> wrote:

      Hi everyone! 

      Tks Cable for sharing this survey! It's amazing results! 
      But I'm in doubt if this "open" the survey discuss about is related to "our open understanding" or is also related to "free understanding" (I mean not paid).

      Anyone knows? 

      Priscila

      2016-03-08 20:15 GMT-03:00 Cable Green <cable at creativecommons.org>:

        http://www.tesglobal.com/teachertech2

        Cable
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