2010 Hewlett OER Grantees Meeting

Wiki page for participants of the international panel and cross-national breakout sessions to share thoughts and ideas

Panel
International OER Policy: Sharing Goals and Objectives Across Countries


 * Moderator: Melissa Hagemann, Senior Program Manager, Information Program, Open Society Institute


 * Ben Janssen, Senior Policy Advisor, Open University of the Netherlands
 * David Kernohan, UKOER Programme Manager, JISC
 * Wayne Mackintosh, Director, OER Foundation
 * Catherine Ngugi, Director, OER Africa
 * Abel Caine, Program Specialist, Section for ICT in Education, Science and Culture, Information Society Division, UNESCO
 * Carolina Rossini, Coordinator, OER Brazil & Fellow, Berkman Center at Harvard University. Green-Paper - The State and Challenges of Open Educational Resources in Brazil

Guidelines for Panel members


 * Provide a short overview, maximum of 5 mins
 * No slideshow presentations allowed

Breakout session: Cross-national collaboration

 * Intended / possible outcomes for the session?
 * Opportunity for session participants to continue the discussion generated by the panel.
 * What are best practices for working with Ministries of Education?
 * What are the other national actors which need to be included in this debate and how?
 * Are there policies that apply across country lines? (Do countries have similar problems, which open space for collaboration?)
 * Are there opportunities for participants to contribute findings to the OLNet research pool?
 * Are there opportunities for countries to collaborate with each other to help achieve their respective policy objectives?
 * Ask participants to help identify exemplars of cross-national collaboration in OER? --Wayne Mackintosh 04:48, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
 * What are the opportunities and barriers to cross-national collaboration -- --Wayne Mackintosh 04:48, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Is cross-national collaboration desirable in OER? --Wayne Mackintosh 04:48, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Would it be helpful to develop a communications channel to share information among the national projects? The Poles and Brazilians are beginning to discuss this.
 * Session design
 * Do we know how many participants are likely to join the session? Eg should be consider small group work or work in plenary? --Wayne Mackintosh 04:56, 16 March 2010 (UTC)