File:POERUP D6.5.1 FIRST INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE WORKSHOP.pdf

Summary of key points

Location

The First International Advisory Committee Workshop was held on Wednesday 27th March 2013 at the University of Nottingham, UK, in connection with the OER13 conference (https://www.alt.ac.uk/events/oer13)

Country reports

The following comments were made:

• There were issues of licensing, both in the UK and in other countries (e.g. Brazil).
• Lou McGill's UK OER report was a useful source of information.
• Spanish and Catalonian members of the Committee commented that there was additional material for Spain and offered to provide appropriate links;
• South Africa needs more nuancing, particularly in the area of draft policy.
• An IAC member offered to provide additional names and information on New Zealand.
• Although not part of the original workplan, it could be illuminating to consider developing some Influence Maps (c.f. VISCED) if time and resources allowed. IAC members could assist with this.

Case studies

As had happened with VISCED, it might be possible to undertake a number of mini-case studies and whilst there was no resource in the project budget for this, it might be possible for IAC members to undertake these.

• Suggestions included: (1) RESOURCE from Scotland, an FE initiative, powered by JORUM; (2) the Nordic OER Alliance; (3) a Spanish exemplar, through the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

Paris OER Declaration

Points made included:

• The Declaration has influenced government policy in Brazil, but publishers are still trying to block developments through lobbying Governors at state level.
• One member commented that we should be careful in developing Paris: "a resource is a tangible thing".
• Open Education (Practice) is not necessarily the same thing as OER.

Conclusion

All IAC members are offered access to the POERUP Dropbox.

The Chair thanked all members for their attendance and very helpful contributions and invited them to the next IAC workshop, which would be held in Oslo, immediately before the EDEN conference in June 2013. Further details would be circulated as soon as these were available.