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

Tue May 22 18:31:58 UTC 2018

Agree 100%, Hal!

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 12:26 PM Hal Plotkin <hplotkin at plotkin.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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> 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.
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> Hal
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> Hal Plotkin
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> *From:* oer-advocacy-coalition at googlegroups.com <
> oer-advocacy-coalition at googlegroups.com> *On Behalf Of *Cable Green
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 22, 2018 7:59 AM
> *To:* Carolina Rossini <carolina.rossini at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Melissa Hagemann <melissa.hagemann at opensocietyfoundations.org>;
> Priscila Gonsales <prigon at educadigital.org.br>; Alek Tarkowski <
> atarkowski at centrumcyfrowe.pl>; International OER Advocacy <
> internationaloeradvocacy at googlegroups.com>; OER Advocacy Coalition <
> oer-advocacy-coalition at googlegroups.com>; education at lists.wikimedia.org;
> open-education at lists.okfn.org; Open Education Platform <
> cc-openedu at googlegroups.com>; asha kanwar <akanwar at col.org>; Natcom
> Slovenia2 <Gasper.Hrastelj at gov.si>; Tel Amiel <tel at amiel.info>; Débora
> Sebriam <debora at educadigital.org.br>
> *Subject:* Re: [OER-advocacy] Re: MEC Brazil publishes an ordinance for
> OER!!!
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> +1 - Congratulations!
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> This is a huge win ... and a policy roadmap for other countries to follow.
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> 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.
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> Thanks to everyone who did the hard work which led to this success!
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> Cable
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> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 10:56 AM, Carolina Rossini <
> carolina.rossini at gmail.com> wrote:
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> http://aberta.org.br/ministry-of-education-publishes-oer-ordinance/
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> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 10:43 AM, Melissa Hagemann <
> melissa.hagemann at opensocietyfoundations.org> wrote:
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> Hi Priscila and Débora,
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> Belated congratulations!!
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> 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.
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> Would you consider writing a blog post, so the news could be shared more
> widely?
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> All the best,
>
> Melissa
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> Melissa Hagemann
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> *From:* internationaloeradvocacy at googlegroups.com [mailto:
> internationaloeradvocacy at googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Priscila
> Gonsales
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 22, 2018 7:36 AM
> *To:* Alek Tarkowski <atarkowski at centrumcyfrowe.pl>
> *Cc:* International OER Advocacy <
> internationaloeradvocacy at googlegroups.com>; OER Advocacy Coalition <
> oer-advocacy-coalition at googlegroups.com>; education at lists.wikimedia.org;
> open-education at lists.okfn.org; Open Education Platform <
> cc-openedu at googlegroups.com>; asha kanwar <akanwar at col.org>; Natcom
> Slovenia2 <Gasper.Hrastelj at gov.si>; Melissa Hagemann <
> melissa.hagemann at opensocietyfoundations.org>; Tel Amiel <tel at amiel.info>;
> Débora Sebriam <debora at educadigital.org.br>
> *Subject:* Re: MEC Brazil publishes an ordinance for OER!!!
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> Hi folks!
>
> Tks Jenn, Ovidiu and Alek! 😊
>
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> 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.
>
>
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> 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.
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> 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.
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>
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> Cheers!
>
> Priscila Gonsales
> www.educadigital.org.br
>
> (enviado pelo celular)
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> Em Ter, 22 de mai de 2018 02:56, Alek Tarkowski <
> 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!
>
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> 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?
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> Best,
>
> Alek
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> On 18 May 2018, at 21:19, Priscila Gonsales <prigon at educadigital.org.br>
> wrote:
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> 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).
>
> 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/
>
> All the best,
>
>
>
> Priscila
>
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> 2018-03-21 11:08 GMT-03:00 Priscila Gonsales <prigon at educadigital.org.br>:
>
> Greetings Open Education friends,
>
>
>
> I'm proud to announce that we from Brazil Open Education Initiative
> <http://www.aberta.org.br/> 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.
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> Link to the official news (in portuguese):
> http://www.capes.gov.br/sala-de-imprensa/noticias/8783-capes-promove-curso-sobre-recursos-educacionais-abertos
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> 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/
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> 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.
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> I appreciate your attencion!
>
> All the best!
>
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