[Open-education] US: [OER-advocacy] OER Congressional Briefing - overview

Wed Mar 2 12:47:07 UTC 2016

Hi Paul, thanks for forwarding. I actually know of an example: Last August, the OER community in Brazil organized an excellent day-long symposium for their Congress in Brasilia. It was a bit different than our US event yesterday: it was much larger and higher profile, and included a series of panels and speakers with many politicians from across government. They brought in several speakers from abroad, including myself, Hal Plotkin (former Obama Administration official), and Jan Gondol (at the time worked with the Slovak government). 

Here’s an English translation of the letter sent out to members of the Brazilian Congress <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0CI1kPhfwYLXy12YVBxYXQxUlU/view> after the event. There’s not a lot else in English, but there was great press coverage in Portuguese. Here’s one of the best articles, which has a couple video interviews in English: http://www.ebc.com.br/educacao/2015/09/rea-entenda-o-que-sao-os-recursos-educacionais-abertos

Nicole

Nicole Allen
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> On Mar 2, 2016, at 4:30 AM, Paul Bacsich Sero <paul.bacsich at sero.co.uk> wrote:
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> Overview of the OER briefing for staff of the US congress.
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> We see very little sign of this in other countries.  Unless our readership knows better?
>  
> Paul
>  
> Paul Bacsich
> Coordinator, Open Education Working Group - http://education.okfn.org/blog/ 
> Senior Consultant, SeroHE - http://www.serohe.co.uk 
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> From: Nicole Allen <mailto:textbooksnicole at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 4:07 AM
> To: OER Advocacy Coalition <mailto:oer-advocacy-coalition at googlegroups.com>
> Subject: [OER-advocacy] OER Congressional Briefing
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> Hi all,
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> Reporting back on today's highly successful OER briefing on Capitol Hill for Congressional staff. The event was sponsored by SPARC, CCSSO, SETDA, CoSN and the Congressional E-Learning and Open Source Caucuses, and featured remarks from Congressman Jared Polis, Mike Carroll from Creative Commons US, Ethan Senack from USPIRG and Val Emerich from the Maryland State Department of Education. The room was packed with staff from several dozen Congressional offices, industry and non profit groups, and several staff from the Obama Administration.
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> SPARC post here: http://sparcopen.org/news/2016/oer-briefing-2016/ <http://sparcopen.org/news/2016/oer-briefing-2016/>
> CCUS post here: http://us.creativecommons.org/archives/1134 <http://us.creativecommons.org/archives/1134>
> Please help share!
> 
> Briefings are a highly effective tactic for building visibility for an issue in DC, educating a large number of offices at once, and giving supportive offices a chance to self-identify. However briefings can only happen when sponsored by a member of Congress, so we are fortunate to have a number of champions who made this event possible. 
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> Finally I want to give a shout out to Reg, whose team did all of the heavy lifting to plan the event. 
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> Best,
> Nicole 
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> Nicole Allen
> Director of Open Education
> SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and
> Academic Resources Coalition
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