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Survey and Reflection of Open Education Policies

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The world is becoming open with the use of digital technology and internet. Open Education (OE) not only provides learning opportunities for those who do not have access to educational resources and practices, but also provides high-quality resources for those who want to achieve higher goals. Policies are one of the many strategies to quicken the development of OE for improving educational equity and quality. This chapter reviews the policies for OE, and discusses the policies in four levels: the overall policies for OE, policies for open standards, specific policies for constructing Open Education Resources (OERs), and OE policies embedded in other education strategic plans. Policies from different countries and regions are introduced and analyzed in these four levels. Finally, the chapter provides various recommendations for making country-level OE policies.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_education.

  2. 2.

    http://www.oeconsortium.org/about-oec/.

  3. 3.

    http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/42286.

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    http://poerup.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page.

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    https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/OER_Policy_Registry.

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    Open Education Working Group (2014) http://www.oerwales.ac.uk/?p=22.

  7. 7.

    http://www.ouslovenia.net/the-idea/.

  8. 8.

    http://declaration.openscot.net.

  9. 9.

    CC-BY license is one of Creative Common licenses, which was illustrated in Sect. 2.2.2.

  10. 10.

    http://www.sakshat.ac.in/Document/OER_Policy.pdf.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_license.

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    https://www.ict.govt.nz/guidance-and-resources/open-government/new-zealand-government-open-access-and-licensing-nzgoal-framework/quick-guide-agencies/.

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    http://www.ausgoal.gov.au/overview.

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    http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/re-using-public-sector-information/licensing-for-re-use/ukglf/.

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    http://www.oerafrica.org/about-us/who-we-are.

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    http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/article/2013/01/20130128141555.html#ixzz3oUCH1z00.

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    http://www.openeducationeuropa.eu/en/about_this_portal.

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    http://www.anrt.ma/en/missions/genie/presentation-genie-program.

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    http://oermap.org/sector/informal/page/2/.

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    http://publishingperspectives.com/2012/03/survey-what-is-the-biggest-obstacle-to-arab-digital-publishing/.

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Acknowledgments

Authors wish to acknowledge partial support from NSERC and China Scholarship Council. This chapter is supported by the 2012 national key project of 12th five-year plan for educational technology “Strategies and models for promoting the faculty development (126220656).”

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  1. Educaiton School, Hangzhou Normal University, 16 Xuelin St., Xiasha Higher Education Zone, Hangzhou, 310036, Zhejiang, P.R. China

    Junfeng Yang

  2. Athabasca University, 1200, 10011 109 Street, Edmonton, AB, T5J 3S8, Canada

    Kinshuk

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  3. The Arab League Educational Cultural and Scientific Organization, Tunis, Tunisia

    Mohamed Koutheair Khribi

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Yang, J., Kinshuk (2017). Survey and Reflection of Open Education Policies. In: Jemni, M., Kinshuk, Khribi, M. (eds) Open Education: from OERs to MOOCs. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-52925-6_2

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