Hi Everyone, Those watching the OER space will be aware of the UNESCO-COL<http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/news-and-in-focus-articles/all-news/news/unescocommonwealth_of_learning_oer_policy_guidelines_to_be_launched_at_the_unesco_general_conference/>OER Policy Guidelines to be launched at the UNESCO General Conference.
I strongly encourage all members of the list to download the Guidelines from the *Commonwealth of Learning* website<http://www.col.org/resources/publications/Pages/detail.aspx?PID=364>because this version carries an open license (CC-BY-SA) under COL copyright which is appropriate for a publication on OER. Unfortunately, the version I downloaded from the UNESCO website earlier today did not contain a copyright statement (unless I missed something.) If so this means that the UNESCO version is all rights reserved :-(. I hope that this is an editorial oversight by UNESCO. Clearly, it would be a missed opportunity for UNESCO to lead by example, especially since they are advocating that member states should adopt government open access license frameworks (as in the case of the New Zealand Government Open Access Licensing Framework <http://nzgoal.info/> adopted by Parliament last year.) New Zealand is a member state and we have already adopted open licensing frameworks. We look forward to UNESCO joining COLs example. mmm UNESCO, you coined the "OER" phrase, now follow through by adopting licenses which support the vision of education for all :-) Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg>, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation <http://www.oerfoundation.org> Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, WikiEducator<http://www.wikieducator.org> Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter <http://twitter.com/#%21/Mackiwg> | identi.ca<http://identi.ca/waynemackintosh> Wikiblog <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg/Blog> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
