[Open-education] [OER-advocacy] Re: MEC Brazil publishes an ordinance for OER!!!

Tue May 22 16:16:36 UTC 2018

I want to add my congratulations to Priscilla and Debora (and to Carolina, who started the push in Brazil and mentored Priscilla, Debora and others).  This is a huge win in a very important place. The lesson here is that the hard work of policy advocacy can pay off when leaders refuse to give up.  Some may not be aware that Priscilla and Debora persevered even after they lost foundation support, which is always understandably limited. Instead, they raised money from local sources to produce a policy guidebook, ran a crowdfunding effort, and turned over every rock they could find to keep up their campaign. On the three occasions they invited me to Brazil they used every moment we had available, conducting back to back meetings with legislators, influencers, local activists, hackers, you name it. Priscilla and Debora were everywhere.  They even arranged an opportunity for me to address Brazil’s House of Representatives, with dozens of senior legislators in attendance. I still marvel that they pulled that off. 

Bravo to Priscilla Gonsales and Debora Sebriam!  They are two of the most remarkable OER leaders I have had the privilege to call friends. Millions will benefit because of their hard work and dedication.  They have set an example that is a model for us all and they have my everlasting respect, appreciation and admiration. 

Hal

Hal Plotkin  

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Subject: Re: [OER-advocacy] Re: MEC Brazil publishes an ordinance for OER!!!

+1 - Congratulations!

This is a huge win ... and a policy roadmap for other countries to follow.

Love Melissa's idea of you writing a blog post about this success and the work leading up to this new open education policy.   Please do let us know if you do - so we can all help amplify the good news. If you'd like, you can publish it on the Creative Commons blog... or we can republish your CC licensed post and link to the original.

Thanks to everyone who did the hard work which led to this success!

Cable

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 10:56 AM, Carolina Rossini <carolina.rossini at gmail.com <mailto:carolina.rossini at gmail.com> > wrote:

http://aberta.org.br/ministry-of-education-publishes-oer-ordinance/

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 10:43 AM, Melissa Hagemann <melissa.hagemann at opensocietyfoundations.org <mailto:melissa.hagemann at opensocietyfoundations.org> > wrote:

Hi Priscila and Débora,

Belated congratulations!! 

>From Carolina Rossini’s first work on this a decade ago, you’ve secured a huge victory, which demonstrates that focused awareness raising and advocacy can lead to the adoption of national OER mandates, even in a country as large and complex as Brazil. It provides a wonderful example for other countries as well.

Would you consider writing a blog post, so the news could be shared more widely?

All the best,

Melissa

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Subject: Re: MEC Brazil publishes an ordinance for OER!!!

Hi folks! 

Tks Jenn, Ovidiu and Alek! 😊

Everything started with our 2015 OER Seminar at House of Representatives (Nicole, Jan and Hal were here with us). After that we have aimed our efforts to executive branch and we managed to have a commitment about OER in OGP Brazil. With this commitment a lot of things have started changing. 

This current ordinance is the best thing that could happen. It is a rule, an official normative. It works like a law inside the Ministry. 

Note that the ordinance doesn't determine by nc. It determines use, reuse, adaptation. The type of license will be defined in each edital, contract etc. Depends on the characteristics of the department, the resource that will be produced, and, mainly, the knowledge and self confidence of the civil servants for implementation. We are still work on this, because we want this ordinance be effective. 

Cheers! 

Priscila Gonsales
www.educadigital.org.br <http://www.educadigital.org.br> 

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Em Ter, 22 de mai de 2018 02:56, Alek Tarkowski <atarkowski at centrumcyfrowe.pl <mailto:atarkowski at centrumcyfrowe.pl> > escreveu:

Dear Priscila,

Congratulations, this is great news. And I know that it is a result of a long effort by you and other activists - I am very happy about your success!

How does the Ministry interpret “open licenses”? I checked in the ordnance and it seems - with my very limited understanding of Portuguese and automated translation - that the definition is good and suggests the most open licenses. Do you know which ones the Ministry will in practice promote and use? Did you have a debate about the non-commercial condition?

Best,

Alek

On 18 May 2018, at 21:19, Priscila Gonsales <prigon at educadigital.org.br <mailto:prigon at educadigital.org.br> > wrote:

Dear Open Education friends, 
Definitely, "Good things come to those who wait" 

I'm writing just to let you know of important news here in Brazil. This is the most important in the recent times! 

The Ministry of Education of Brazil has just published an ordinance that determines that all educational resources paid for by the ministry which are to be used in basic education must be openly licensed and use open format/standards whenever possible. This will have huge impact on the number of educational resources available in Portuguese for this sector. Resources will be made available in a new open-source repository ( <http://plataformaintegrada.mec.gov.br/> http://plataformaintegrada.mec.gov.br).

A small note is published here in english, as part of our work on the open education initiative:  <http://aberta.org.br/ministry-of-education-publishes-oer-ordinance/> http://aberta.org.br/ministry-of-education-publishes-oer-ordinance/

All the best, 

Priscila

2018-03-21 11:08 GMT-03:00 Priscila Gonsales <prigon at educadigital.org.br <mailto:prigon at educadigital.org.br> >:

Greetings Open Education friends, 

I'm proud to announce that we from  <http://www.aberta.org.br/> Brazil Open Education Initiative  are going to launch the biggest Brazilian action for OER training we've heard. 

In April, the first edition of the OER course  <http://www.cursorea.net.br/> for Open University Brazil Program (UAB) from Ministry of Education expects to reach more than 300 participants. In this action we are engaging federal universities professors and police makers to foster the open education concept in order to make the practice come true. UAB is the official federal program to provide higher education to the basic education teachers (15% out of 2 millions teachers). The second edition, scheduled for September, will be dedicated to OER facilitators training. 

Link to the official news (in portuguese): http://www.capes.gov.br/sala-de-imprensa/noticias/8783-capes-promove-curso-sobre-recursos-educacionais-abertos 

At the same time, and as part of the course, we will release to the general public our OER referatory platform RE-li-A (Recursos Educacionais com licenças Abertas), we emphasize "li" because all resources available on the platform must have be under an open license. It is a wordpress platform and the code are at git.hub — it could be used by any school or educational institution who wants to index their own resources. RE-li-A was built by us with support from a crowdfunding campaign. And the great news is: RE-li-A is fully integrated with Ministry of Education Platform:  <https://plataformaintegrada.mec.gov.br/usuario-publico/332/> https://plataformaintegrada.mec.gov.br/usuario-publico/332/ 

However, we have to raise funds to continue work on RE-li-A project.  I'd like to ask you about suggestions of funding opportunities. 

I appreciate your attencion! 

All the best! 

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