The Next Decade of Open Sharing: Reaching One Billion Minds

MIT OpenCourseWare's First 10 Years: 100 Million Served

• On April 4, 2001, MIT announced it would publish educational materials from all of its courses freely and openly on the Internet. Ten years later, OCW has shared materials from more than 2000 courses with an estimated 100 million individuals worldwide.

The Next Decade of Open Sharing: Reaching One Billion Minds

• MIT's goal for the next decade is to increase our reach ten-fold: to reach a billion minds. We aspire by 2021 to make open educational resources like MIT OpenCourseWare the tools to bridge the global gap between human potential and opportunity, so that motivated people everywhere can improve their lives and change the world.

Kudos to MIT and other OER leaders ... those of us who have innovated after you applaud!

Education without limits: Why open textbooks are the way forward.

Call for Book Chapters: Open-Source Technologies for Maximizing the Creation, Deployment and Use of Digital Resources and Information

Call for Book Chapters:

“Open-Source Technologies for Maximizing the Creation, Deployment and Use of Digital Resources and Information”

The target audience includes researchers, academics, professionals, students, and open-source developers.  This work is conceptualized as both a reference text and a textbook.

Towards an OER university: Free learning for all students worldwide (#oeru)

Universities in Australia, Canada and New Zealand are hoping to achieve "a quantum shift" in higher education access by launching an "OER university". (article)

Concept is: http://wikieducator.org/OER_University

There is an open meeting (all are invited) on Feb 22: Noon – 8:00pm (pacific). If you can’t make it to New Zealand … join the meeting as a virtual participant… I’ll be attending from Olympia, WA ;)   

Please tag this activity with:  #oeru

·         Webinar recording.  (direct link)

·         Creative Commons post

·         Editorial on meeting (by organizer)

OER / OA & Policy Opportunities

A document of “talking points” is en route to Washington D.C. with our system’s Trustees and Presidents for conversations with Washington State’s Senators and Congresspeople at the ACCT National Legislative Summit (Feb 13-16).

… with this language:

·         Please thank your legislator for their support of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant of $2 billion.  This landmark, precedent setting federal grant requires all educational content produced with grant funding be openly licensed and available to the public – maximizing the impact of public tax dollars.

o    Washington Colleges will be able to adopt and use, at no additional cost, all $2B of programs, courses and textbooks created!

o    Washington state can receive as much as $5 million dollars for successful grant proposal for individual colleges and as much as $20 million (or more) for statewide or multi-state consortium proposals.

and

Co-sponsor the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA)

FRPAA will ensure that articles reporting on the results of federally funded research are made widely accessible to millions of researchers, entrepreneurs, teachers, and students, helping to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery, fuel innovation and economic development, and improve the quality of U.S. STEM education.

·         Community College libraries cannot afford expensive academic journals.  FRPAA will ensure publicly funded research is available to all Washington students.

I’m sharing this as an example of how we Open Educational Resources / Open Access folks can tie our message into existing Policy channels.

Feel free to remix / reuse for your local policy opportunities…