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Selected international resources

Creative Commons Kiwi
A free content video streamed from Vimeo Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand.

• UNESCO 2012 Paris OER Declaration formally adopted at the 2012 World Open Educational Resources (OER) Congress held at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris from 20 – 22 June 2012
• Survey on Governments' Open Educational Resources (OER) Policies, published by COL and UNESCO in preparation for the 2012 World Open Educational Resources (OER) Congress
• Guidelines for Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Education, published by COL and UNESCO.
• A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources (OER), published by COL.
• Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning: Open Educational Resources and Change in Higher Education: Reflections from Practice, published by COL and UNESCO.
• Opening up Down Under: the role of open educational resources in promoting social inclusion in Australia, by Bossu, C., Bull, D., and Brown, M. Distance Education, 2012, 33(2):151-164.

Selected New Zealand resources and user submitted institutional case studies

How to submit a New Zealand institutional open education case study

The National Symposium on Open Education invites all institutions to share what they are doing in open education as a reference resource for the symposium. Create an account on WikiEducator, if you don't already have one. Add a link to your case study below. Note: Feel free to consult the detailed help tutorials on how to edit wiki pages.

Creative Commons and schools Mark Osborne, Albany Senior High School
A free content video streamed from Vimeo CORE EDTalks.

1. New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing Framework (NZGOAL) and Declaration on open and transparent government
2. Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand and Poster on Licenses
3. OERu share solutions for Education for All at UNESCO World OER Congress, OER Foundation, 19 June 2012.
4. Opening Education in New Zealand: A Snapshot of a Rapidly Evolving OER Ecosystem, see Chapter 13 of Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning: Open Educational Resources and Change in Higher Education: Reflections from Practice, published by COL and UNESCO.

Examples of educational institutions with open policies

OER university
A free content video streamed from Vimeo OER Foundation.

Organisations who have implemented open policies

• Otago Polytechnic: An IP policy for the times, New Zealand
• Albany Senior High School, New Zealand
• Warrington School, New Zealand. (See also case study in WikiEducator.)
• Commonwealth of Learning Policy on OER
• OER and Copyright Policy for the Commonwealth Open Schooling Association (COMOSA).