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Creating an Open Education Policy: A Guide for Institutions
A practical walk-through of drafting an open education policy: deciding scope, choosing licenses, getting approval and tracking whether anyone actually uses it.
Institutions and Work
Policy and Initiatives
Frameworks, policies and outreach projects for putting openness into practice.
Creating a Culture of Openness: Strategies for Implementing Open Education
Change-management steps for encouraging staff to share teaching work openly: incentives, recognition, training and ways to handle honest resistance.
Creating an Open Education Framework: A Guide for Institutions
The parts of an institutional open education framework: goals, roles, licensing, quality checks and review cycles, and how they fit together as a whole.
Developing Open Education Initiatives for Community Engagement
How to plan an open education outreach project: finding local partners, running workshops, and gathering community feedback that shapes what happens next.
Developing Open Education Policy and Practice
Why written open education rules often fail in daily teaching, and how support, training and feedback can narrow the gap between policy and classroom practice.
Online Learning and the Future of Education Policy
How governments and education ministries fold online and open provision into a national education strategy, from goals and infrastructure to funding and oversight.
Online Learning and the Future of Education Policy: A Discussion of the Issues
The competing issues policy makers must weigh when regulating online learning, including funding, quality assurance, equity and regulation, and why each choice has costs.
Open Education and the Future of Education Policy: A Discussion of the Issues
The policy questions governments face on open education: licensing publicly funded work, procurement of materials, teacher time, and how to evaluate the results.
Open Education and the Future of Education Reform: A Review of the Trends
How open education fits into wider education reform efforts, why many reforms fade, and which patterns suggest that some changes last longer than others.
The Open Education Initiative: A Global Effort to Improve Access to Education
A survey of the main types of international and national initiatives aimed at widening access to education, and how they are typically organized and funded.
The Open Education Movement: A Catalyst for Change in Education Policy
How advocacy for open education becomes formal policy, step by step: from small pilots and evidence to institutional rules and national requirements.
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