Recommendation 18 Creative Commons licensing

Recommendation 18. We recommend that the Government consider the advantages and disadvantages of whether all documentation produced by the Ministry of Education for teaching and learning purposes should be released under a Creative Commons licence.

Comment: The major question here must be Why not?
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Relevant discussion points

• The NZGOAL Framework provides a policy imperative for Crown agencies, including the Ministry of Education to release all documentation under open content license. --Mackiwg 02:06, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
• UNESCO's 2012 Paris OER Declaration will result in a call to all member states to openly license publicly funded educational materials. --Mackiwg 02:06, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
• The New Zealand National Symposium on Open Education has proposed the development of a National framework for OER which aims to raise awareness of the potential of OER at all levels – government, tertiary, industry and community and make the case for OER as a public policy matter. --Mackiwg 02:10, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

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