Open Education Café. Developing Supportive Policy
Channel: European Network of Open Education Librarians
Date: 2022-10-14

OE Champions Catherine Cronin (Independent Open Educator & Open Researcher, Ireland), Melissa Highton (Director of Learning, Teaching and Web Services and Assistant Principal for Online and Open Learning, University of Edinburgh, Scotland), Antonio Martínez-Arboleda (Academic lead for OEP and Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education, University of Leeds, UK), and Marc van Oostendorp (Professor of Dutch and Academic Communication at the Radboud University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands) talk about their experiences relating to Area 2 of the UNESCO Recommendation on OER: Developing Supportive Policy.

See also our OE bite on Area 2 here: https://youtu.be/7I75Peh99W8

Join ENOEL: https://sparceurope.org/what-we-do/open-education/enoel/

LINKS SHARED DURING THE SESSION
OE Champions project: https://openscholarchampions.eu/openeducation/champions/
OE bite on the second area of action of the UNESCO OER Recommendation: https://youtu.be/7I75Peh99W8
OEP page on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources_policy
Recent talk from Antonio and Lorna at Leeds: A global challenge: digital and open education for inclusive societies https://leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2022/04/15/a-global-challenge-digital-and-open-education-for-inclusive-societies/
University of Edinburgh revised OER Policy here https://www.teaching-matters-blog.ed.ac.uk/a-new-oer-policy-for-the-university/
https://open.ed.ac.uk/open-policy/
Edinburgh University OER Service is here https://open.ed.ac.uk/
https://ses.leeds.ac.uk/info/22149/a-z_of_policies_and_key_documents/645/open_educational_resources_taught_students
Guide to Developing Enabling Policies for Digital & Open T&L, Report based on national consultation in Irish HE (2021) https://hub.teachingandlearning.ie/resource/guide-to-developing-enabling-policies-for-digital-and-open-teaching-and-learning/
Defining and Developing ‘Enabling’ Open Education Policies in HE - presented at UNESCO HE Conf. http://oars.uos.ac.uk/2481/ 
"How to milk a cow" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhabl9vtb4U you can download this video under open licence here https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/02%3A%20Good%20milking%20practice%20I%20-%20Hand%20milking/1_mb3r8ewc
"OE Policies: Guidelines for Co-Creation", by Atenas, et al., https://zenodo.org/record/4281363#.Yzv71VLMIqt
University of Edinburgh blogpost about Open Textbooks for music education https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/opentextbooks/
University of Leeds Library vision “ Knowledge for All” https://spotlight.leeds.ac.uk/libraries-vision/
A global commons: turning research into educational material with Wikimedia https://leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2022/06/10/a-global-commons-turning-research-into-educational-material-with-wikimedia/
https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/help-consultancy/is-skills/edinburgh-award/digital-volunteering-wikipedia
Edinburgh University booklet of case studies of use of Wikimedia in Education is here https://open.ed.ac.uk/wikimedia-in-education/
7 policy examples in the National Forum policy guide -- one of these was the Univ Edin OER Policy. Lorna Campbell shared details on how the 2016 policy was reviewed prior to releasing updated version in 2021 https://hub.teachingandlearning.ie/resource/guide-to-developing-enabling-policies-for-digital-and-open-teaching-and-learning/