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[CC-Europe] European Commission consultation on "Opening Up Education"

From: Timothy Vollmer <tvol AT creativecommons.org>
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Cc: Cable Green <cable AT creativecommons.org>, Catherine Casserly <cathy AT creativecommons.org>, Paul Stacey <pstacey AT creativecommons.org>
Subject: [CC-Europe] European Commission consultation on "Opening Up Education"
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:12:00 -0700

Greetings CC Europe--

Some of you may have seen this but I would like to bring it to everyone's attention--https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33832. The Commission is thinking about how to support Open Educational Resources and ICTs for education. They now have a public consultation period open on the subject (closes 13 November). CC has been in touch with Ricardo Ferreira, a Policy Officer from the EC who's helping run the consultation.

The two goals they hope to make progress on, kickstarted by the consultation:

1. Encourage and help EU member nations to move toward broad open education policies as called for the Paris OER Declaration

2. Make commercial elementary school textbooks freely available and openly licensed after the commercial textbook publishers have recouped their costs and profit (3-5 years).

Ricardo urged CC to respond to the formal questionnaire, and we can be in touch with him directly too. Ricardo said specifically that it'd be great to have CC's European voice be heard--in fact the EC would prefer it this way. CC would like to submit a response that incorporates as many CC Europe affiliate teams as possible that are interested in commenting on this consultation. I've attached the consultation document and the questionnaire.

Working with Jonas and Cable, we suggest the following process:

1. Interested affiliate teams look over the consultation document and questionnaire and submit responses to Jonas and Timothy by 1 October.

2. CC HQ will condense the responses into a single document and re-share this with CC Europe affiliates by 15 October.

3. Affiliates should review this, provide any feedback, and let us know if you wish to be listed as a signatory by 1 November.

4. CC HQ will look at feedback and produce final response to be submitted on or about 7 November with a list of signatories behind it.

5. Individual affiliates are of course welcome to submit their own responses if they wish.

If there are questions feel free to send them along. Thank you,

timothy

Attachment: opening up education consultation.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

Attachment: opening up education questionnaire.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

[CC-Europe] European Commission consultation on "Opening Up Education", Timothy Vollmer, 08/28/2012