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Cooperation changes everything – Open Education Policy Forum
Cooperation changes everything – that was the motto of our Third Open Education Policy Forum, which took place on 15-16 October in Warsaw, Poland. Our yearly event brought together, like in the previous years, 50 XX open education advocates from across Europe. Our goal is to create a meeting at which those of us in […]
Copyrights & Open Access in Education – conference in Bulgaria
On June 18th a round table on in Education took place in Sofia under the initiative of DIGITAL REPUBLIC and have provided a platform for discussion on the current issues on European scale. The event was part of the official calendar of the European Parliament Bureau Bulgaria and has been performed in the perspective of […]
How to develop Open Education in Poland? Workshop at the University of Gdańsk
On June 13 a group of Polish non-governmental organizations, researchers and librarians working in the field of open education met in order to discuss on recommendations for better public policies for open education. The aim of the meeting was also to network with people and institutions who are interested in developing open education in Poland. […]
2nd OER Policy Forum in Warsaw
For two days in Warsaw, over 40 experts, activists and officials from 23 countries were discussing the best way to create and implement public policies on openness in education at national and international levels. The perfect opportunity for doing this was the second OER Policy Forum, organized on 1-2 of June by Centrum Cyfrowe (the […]
Let’s make copyright right. Right now. For education.
Can every teacher in Europe display YouTube videos during his or her lesson? Or photocopy the entire book for their students? Share the images found in the Internet? The answer is – no, not every of them and not everywhere. The rules that govern what is allowed and what is not allowed for the educator […]
Active OER: Beyond open licensing policies
In 2015, the Polish government launched an online repository of open, Creative Commons Attribution-licensed e-textbooks, covering the core curriculum for primary and lower secondary education. With this goal achieved, we ask ourselves: is our work done? After five years, open education activists finally saw their advocacy work bear fruit. In parallel, the government changed the textbook funding model, […]
