Creative Commons Global Summit 2017 - Toronto, Canada

TOPICS: OER, Development funding, Open Policies, Education Policy

Advocates for open policies and open licenses value the ability to update, modify and redistribute content. However, for many policymakers and content creating institutions copyright control acts as a proxy for content and standards control. This session will examine how this has played out in discussions of national early grade reading open educational resources (OER) policies and for institutional open licensing policies.

Questions covered will include:
- defining and communicating the benefits of open to state or national education authorities
- the importantace of supporting local authors and publishers in the provision of OER in development projects
- the perception that open licensing policies act in a limiting or top-down way when required by funders