Regional Policy Fora on Open Educational Resources
In order to raise global awareness for the June 2012 Open Educational Resources Congress, UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) hold a number of Regional Policy Forums on Open Educational Resources in all UNESCO regions.
Their purpose were threefold:
- to profile Open Educational Resources activities in the region;
- to obtain further details about government Open Educational Resources policies or intentions and,
- to seek input to the Declaration that will be presented to the World Open Educational Resources Congress in June 2012.
The Regional Policy Forums were scheduled as follows:
Africa
21-22 February 2012, Pretoria, South Africa
>> Agenda
>> List of participants
>> Final Report
>> Photo Gallery
>> Video 1 (in French) / Video 2 (in English)
Latin America
28-29 March 2012, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
>> Agenda
>> List of participants
>> Final Report
>> Video 1 (Portugese and Spanish with English subtitles)
Europe
17 April 2012, Cambridge, United Kingdom
>> Open Courseware Consortium (OCW) and Support Centre for Open Resources in Education (SCORE) Event
>> List of participants
>> Final report
Asia and the Pacific
23-24 April 2012, Bangkok, Thailand