1. Ministerial Round Table 2 Bridging the Quality Gap through Open Educational Resources Sir John Daniel Education Masters, DeTao Masters Academy, China

2. Headings New phenomena of OER Challenges of Open Licensing Funding opportunities for OER Outcomes of the World OER Congress IITE and OER Wider Issues of OER Challenges facing countries using OER OER at national level UNESCO and OER

3. Headings New phenomena of OER

4. UNESCO HQ Paris 2002 Forum on the Impact of Open CourseWare for Higher Education in Developing Countries

5. Declaration: Participants expressed: “their satisfaction and their wish to develop together a universal educational resource for the whole of humanity, to be referred to henceforth as Open Educational Resources” 2002 FORUM on the Impact of Open CourseWare for Higher Education in Developing Countries

6. The World Conference on Higher Education Paris - July 2009: New Dynamics of HE

7. Zeynep Varoglu Taking OER beyond the OER Community: Policy & Capacity for Developing Countries Trudi van Wyk

8. Workshops South Africa Namibia Malaysia Mali India Tanzania Mozambique Plus three online forums

9. Neil Butcher Stamenka Uvalić- Trumbić Asha Kanwar col.org/resources

10. Zeynep Varoglu Trudi van Wyk

11. Fostering Governmental Support for Open Educational Resources Internationally

12. QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY Responses from ~ 100 countries so far (82 by the cut-off date of 16 April)

13. Sarah Hoosen

14. “There appears to be great interest in OER across all regions of the world, with several countries embarking on notable OER initiatives. Indeed, the survey itself raised interest and awareness of OER in countries that may not have had much prior exposure to the concept.” Hoosen Report

15. WHY OER? Idealism Economics

16. Neil Butcher Sarah Hoosen

17. Regional Policy Forums Caribbean – January Africa – February Latin America – March Europe – April Asia & Pacific – April Arab States - May

19. The Paris Declaration World Congress on Open Educational Resources Paris – June 20-22 – 2012

20. The Paris Declaration Is not legally binding but governments use such declarations as a guide to policy making and this is already happening with this Declaration on OER

21. Paris Declaration on OER 1.Foster awareness and use of OER. 2. Facilitate enabling environments for the use of ICT. 3. Reinforce the development of policies and strategies on OER. 4. Promote the understanding and use of open licensing frameworks.

22. Paris Declaration on OER 5. Support capacity building for the sustainable development of quality learning materials. 6. Foster strategic alliances for OER. 7. Encourage the development and adaptation of OER in a variety of languages and cultural contexts. 8. Encourage research on OER.

23. Paris Declaration on OER 9. Facilitate finding, retrieveing and sharing of OER. 10. Encourage open licensing of educational material produced with public funds.

24. Headings New phenomena of OER Challenges of Open Licensing

25. …there appears to be some confusion regarding understanding of the concept and potential of OER. Many projects are geared to allowing online access to digitized educational content, but the materials themselves do not appear to be explicitly stated as OER. Where licences are open, the Creative Commons framework appears to be the most widely used licensing framework, but licensing options varies between countries. Hoosen Report

26. Open Licensing AUTHORS OER within copyright legislation USERS Assurances & restrictions

27. Open Licensing No consensus on ‘non- commercial’ restriction

30. Headings New phenomena of OER Challenges of Open Licensing Funding opportunities for OER

31. Funding OER Moving from philanthropy to the business case

32. Headings New phenomena of OER Challenges of Open Licensing Funding opportunities for OER Outcomes of the World OER Congress

34. The Paris Declaration Is not legally binding but governments use such declarations as a guide to policy making and this is already happening with this Declaration on OER

35. Paris Declaration on OER 9. Facilitate finding, retrieveing and sharing of OER. 10. Encourage open licensing of educational material produced with public funds.

36. VANCOUVER - British Columbia is set to become the first province in Canada to offer students free online, open textbooks for the 40 most popular post-secondary courses.

37. The Steering Committee is making 20,000 lecture hours equivalent of material available under an open license.

38. Headings New phenomena of OER Challenges of Open Licensing Funding opportunities for OER Outcomes of the World OER Congress IITE and OER

39. Headings New phenomena of OER Challenges of Open Licensing Funding opportunities for OER Outcomes of the World OER Congress IITE and OER Wider issues of OER

40. What is a MOOC? Massive Open Online Course

42. The Open Educational Resource University

43. The OER university concept. Adapted from Taylor (2007) James Taylor

44. Headings New phenomena of OER Challenges of Open Licensing Funding opportunities for OER Outcomes of the World OER Congress IITE and OER Wider Issues of OER Challenges facing countries using OER

45. CHALLENGES  Awareness of OER  Habits of textbook acquisition  Open licensing

46. …there appears to be some confusion regarding understanding of the concept and potential of OER. Many projects are geared to allowing online access to digitized educational content, but the materials themselves do not appear to be explicitly stated as OER. Where licences are open, the Creative Commons framework appears to be the most widely used licensing framework, but licensing options varies between countries. Hoosen Report

47. Headings New phenomena of OER Challenges of Open Licensing Funding opportunities for OER Outcomes of the World OER Congress IITE and OER Wider Issues of OER Challenges facing countries using OER OER at national level UNESCO and OER

48. The Paris Declaration World Congress on Open Educational Resources Paris – June 20-22 – 2012

49. The Paris Declaration Is not legally binding but governments use such declarations as a guide to policy making and this is already happening with this Declaration on OER

50. Paris Declaration on OER 1.Foster awareness and use of OER. 2. Facilitate enabling environments for the use of ICT. 3. Reinforce the development of policies and strategies on OER. 4. Promote the understanding and use of open licensing frameworks.

51. Paris Declaration on OER 5. Support capacity building for the sustainable development of quality learning materials. 6. Foster strategic alliances for OER. 7. Encourage the development and adaptation of OER in a variety of languages and cultural contexts. 8. Encourage research on OER.

52. Paris Declaration on OER 9. Facilitate finding, retrieveing and sharing of OER. 10. Encourage open licensing of educational material produced with public funds.

53. Headings New phenomena of OER Challenges of Open Licensing Funding opportunities for OER Outcomes of the World OER Congress IITE and OER Wider Issues of OER Challenges facing countries using OER OER at national level UNESCO and OER

54. Ministerial Round Table 2 Bridging the Quality Gap through Open Educational Resources Sir John Daniel Education Masters, DeTao Masters Academy, China