● PRI NT PAGE ● SI TEMAP ● Home ● NEWS ● Programmes & Services ● RESOURCES ● About COL ● COL Blog ● RESOURCES ❍ Knowledge Services ❍ Publications ❍ Course Materials ❍ Gender Micro-site ❍ Quality Assurance Micro-site ❍ Speeches & Presentations ■ 2011 ■ Open Courseware, Open Content, Open Practices, Open Learning: Where are the limits? ■ The Global Challenge of Sir John Daniel, Commonwealth of Learning Professor Asha Kanwar, Commonwealth of Learning Home > RESOURCES > Speeches & Presentations > 2011 > Open Courseware, Open Content, Open Practices, Open Learning: Where are the limits? Open Courseware, Open Content, Open Practices, Open Learning: Where are the limits? OpenCourseWare Consortium Global 2011 Conference May 4-6, 2011 • Cambridge, MA, USA Track: Next Generation Open Learning Open Courseware, Open Content, Open Practices, Open Learning: Where are the limits? by John Daniel 1 , Asha Kanwar 1 and Stamenka Uvali ć-Trumbi ć 2 ( 1 Commonwealth of Learning (COL); 2 UNESCO) Abstract The first part of the paper reports on the outcomes of a joint UNESCO-COL project Taking OERs beyond the OER Community: Policy and Capacity. Its purpose was to expand understanding of the potential of OERs among university leaders and quality assurance officials in Africa and Asia, who have low awareness of this phenomenon. The project concluded with an intergovernmental policy forum where participants enjoined UNESCO to lead a global campaign to encourage governments and institutions to foster the development and use of OER and, more widely, to make documents of educational value created with public funds available under open licenses. The second part of the paper draws on the experience of creating and using OERs to explore how far open educational practices can take us towards more cost-effective Commonwealth of Learning - Open Courseware, Open Content, Open Practices, Open Learning: Where are the limits? http://www.col.org/resources/speeches/2011presentation/Pages/2011-05-04.aspx (1 of 7) [2011/05/12 01:47:08 PM] SITE SEARCH