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Free OER and CC online course: OCL4Ed Workshop

Written by Cheryl Foong on 11th May 2012

To celebrate 10 years since UNESCO coined the term “Open Educational Resources”, the OER Foundation is hosting a free online training workshop on OERs, Copyright and Creative Commons licensing. When: 20 June –  3 July 2012 (to coincide with the UNESCO … Continue reading →

UNESCO’s New OER Global Logo

Written by Cheryl Foong on 10th May 2012

UNESCO has released a new OER logo which allows the global OER community of practitioners, projects and researchers to create a common identity. The OER Global Logo by Jonathas Mello is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC … Continue reading →

Vocational Training Packages licensed under CC

Written by Cheryl Foong on 3rd May 2012

    We’ve blogged recently about various overseas developments in the global OER movement (here and here), so it’s great to be able to highlight an Australian Government initiative in this arena as well. Training.gov.au (TGA), the database on Vocational … Continue reading →

Australian Government IP Manual and Guidelines on Licensing PSI

Written by Cheryl Foong on 24th April 2012

The Australian Government has recently released two documents which implement the Government’s Statement of Intellectual Property Principles for Australian Government Agencies: Guidelines on Licensing Public Sector Information for Australian Government Agencies; and Australian Government Intellectual Property Manual (“IP Manual”). Both … Continue reading →

NY Times highlights the significance OER

Written by Cheryl Foong on 23rd April 2012

An article in the New York Times, Building Schools Out of Clicks, Not Bricks, has recently emphasised the importance of the growing Open Education Resources (OER) movement, and its potential to close the knowlege divide between different regions around the … Continue reading →