Kenya national symposium on open education/Participant objectives


 * 1) To assist Ministry of Education in developing open policy for secondary education
 * 2) To improve integration of open education initiatives between secondary and post-secondary sectors
 * 3) To identify strategies for Ministry of Education regarding successful implementation of open policy
 * 4) To harness ODL approaches for open education
 * 5) To identify and articulate the benefits of OER
 * 6) To refine copyright and intellectual property policies in support of OER
 * 7) To implement strategies for awareness and advocacy of OER
 * 8) To identity the implications of OER for curriculum development
 * 9) To leverage reuse and adaptation of OER policies for West Africa
 * 10) To build capability in how to localise OER
 * 11) To improve understanding on how to protect intellectual property when developing and publishing OER
 * 12) To identify strategies to support capacity development for OER
 * 13) To develop institutional OER policies for open schools
 * 14) To determine a way forward for OER in non-formal and informal "schools"
 * 15) To share and learn from our collective experiences in OER
 * 16) To identify how to "fast-track" OER policy development and implementation
 * 17) To interrogative open business models and alternatives for scalable and sustainable implementation of OER
 * 18) To develop guidelines for successful implementation of OER policies
 * 19) To identify how we can use OER resources for providing legal information on copyright, OERs and open licensing for the public.
 * 20) To determine how to reuse, adapt and localise existing OER policies
 * 21) To consider options for merging OER and Copyright / Intellectual property policies.
 * 22) To establish collaborate networks and communities of practice for open education
 * 23) To consider options for incorporating OER in the Kenya free laptop intitiative.
 * 24) To identify strategies for OER deployment
 * 25) To consider alternatives for motivating authors to participate in OER.
 * 26) To consider incentives for OER development.
 * 27) To acquire knowledge and skills for developing OER policy.
 * 28) To identify the next steps for the Ministry of Education in relation to open education.
 * 29) To identify and implement mechanisms to build and scale up existing OER successes for the region.
 * 30) To identify policy solutions for OER to support "out-of-school" youths and young adults.
 * 31) To incorporate OER policy support for nomadic communities.