Otago Polytechnic/National Symposium on Open Education/About the Symposium

 OER is a sustainable and renewable resource  

Otago Polytechnic in collaboration with the Commonwealth of Learning Chair in OER and the OER Foundation will convene a national symposium on Open Education.

''On Friday 22 June 2012, the UNESCO World Open Educational Resources (OER) Congress released the 2012 Paris OER Declaration which calls on Governments to openly license publicly funded educational materials. The New Zealand National Symposium on OER will bring together educational leaders and policy makers to consider the strategic opportunities for OER in New Zealand and to explore policy enablers and practices for harnessing the potential of open education approaches for the benefit of the formal education sector in New Zealand. The symposium will commence work on “proposals for action” as the first step towards planning the way forward for a sector-wide response to open education in New Zealand''

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