Kenya national symposium on open education/Participant objectives

1. To assist Ministry of Education in developing open policy for secondary education
2. To improve integration of open education initiatives between secondary and post-secondary sectors
3. To identify strategies for Ministry of Education regarding successful implementation of open policy
4. To harness ODL approaches for open education
5. To identify and articulate the benefits of OER
6. To refine copyright and intellectual property policies in support of OER
7. To implement strategies for awareness and advocacy of OER
8. To identity the implications of OER for curriculum development
9. To leverage reuse and adaptation of OER policies for West Africa
10. To build capability in how to localise OER
11. To improve understanding on how to protect intellectual property when developing and publishing OER
12. To identify strategies to support capacity development for OER
13. To develop institutional OER policies for open schools
14. To determine a way forward for OER in non-formal and informal "schools"
15. To share and learn from our collective experiences in OER
16. To identify how to "fast-track" OER policy development and implementation
17. To interrogative open business models and alternatives for scalable and sustainable implementation of OER
18. To develop guidelines for successful implementation of OER policies
19. To identify how we can use OER resources for providing legal information on copyright, OERs and open licensing for the public.
20. To determine how to reuse, adapt and localise existing OER policies
21. To consider options for merging OER and Copyright / Intellectual property policies.
22. To establish collaborate networks and communities of practice for open education
23. To consider options for incorporating OER in the Kenya free laptop intitiative.
24. To identify strategies for OER deployment
25. To consider alternatives for motivating authors to participate in OER.
26. To consider incentives for OER development.
27. To acquire knowledge and skills for developing OER policy.
28. To identify the next steps for the Ministry of Education in relation to open education.
29. To identify and implement mechanisms to build and scale up existing OER successes for the region.
30. To identify policy solutions for OER to support "out-of-school" youths and young adults.
31. To incorporate OER policy support for nomadic communities.