Kenya national symposium on open education/About the Symposium

 OER is a sustainable and renewable resource  

The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) in collaboration with the Kenyan Ministry of Education will convene a regional symposium on open education with guests from a number of countries.

''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 Kenya National Symposium on OER will bring together educational leaders and policy makers to consider the strategic opportunities for OER in the region and to explore policy enablers and practices for harnessing the potential of open education approaches for the benefit of the formal education sector in Kenya and the region. The symposium will commence work on “proposals for action” building on existing OER foundations to progress the way forward for a sector-wide response to open education in Kenya and the region.''

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