On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Edward Cherlin <[email protected]> wrote:
> I intend to apply for creating digital textbook replacements. Anyone > else interested? > How about affiliating with Sugar Labs as a Sugar Labs project? > http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/22912 > > U.S. Department of Education includes OER in notice of proposed > priorities for grant programs > Timothy Vollmer, August 5th, 2010 > > Today the U.S. Department of Education took another big step in > supporting open educational resources (OER). In the Federal Register, > the Department released a notice of proposed priorities (NPP): > > The Secretary of Education proposes priorities that the Department > of Education (Department) may use for any appropriate discretionary > grant program in fiscal year (FY) 2011 and future years … This action > will permit all offices in the Department to use, as appropriate for > particular discretionary grant programs, one or more of these > priorities in any discretionary grant competition. > > The set of proposed priorities specifically mentions OER. Essentially, > if the priorities are adopted, it could mean that grant seekers who > include open educational resources as a component of an application > for funding from the Department of Education could receive priority. > OER is included in Proposed Priority 13–Improving Productivity: > > Projects that are designed to significantly increase efficiency in > the use of time, staff, money, or other resources. Such projects may > include innovative and sustainable uses of technology, modification of > school schedules, use of open educational resources (as defined in > this notice), or other strategies that improve results and increase > productivity. > > As mentioned, the NPP includes a definition of open educational resources: > > Open educational resources (OER) means teaching, learning, and > research resources that reside in the public domain or have been > released under an intellectual property license that permits their > free use or repurposing by others. > > Interested parties may submit comments to the notice of proposed > priorities until September 7, 2010. Information about how to submit a > comment is described in the notice. > > -- > Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin > Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. > The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. > http://www.earthtreasury.org/ > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
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