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Pete Forsyth and the Wikimedia Public Policy Initiative: Open Education and Policy

Pete Forsyth lives and breathes wikis. He is owner and lead consultant at Wiki Strategies, and has extensive experience in working within online peer production communities, specifically the production of open educational resources (OER) using wiki-based web sites like Wikipedia. Forsyth was the Wikimedia Foundation’s first Public Outreach Officer and key architect of the Wikipedia Public Policy … Read More “Pete Forsyth and the Wikimedia Public Policy Initiative: Open Education and Policy”

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Paul Stacey from BCcampus: Open Education and Policy

Paul Stacey by BCcampus / CC BY Paul Stacey is the Director of Communications, Stakeholder and Academic Relations at BCcampus. Headquartered in Vancouver, BCcampus provides services in support of educational technology and online learning to British Columbia’s 25 public colleges and universities, their students, faculty and administrators. The BC Ministry of Advanced Education provides funding … Read More “Paul Stacey from BCcampus: Open Education and Policy”

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The Right to Research Coalition's Nick Shockey: Open Education and Policy

Nick Shockey is the Director of the Right to Research Coalition (R2RC) and the Director of Student Advocacy at the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). The R2RC is an international alliance of 31 graduate and undergraduate student organizations, representing nearly 7 million students, that promotes an open scholarly publishing system based on the … Read More “The Right to Research Coalition's Nick Shockey: Open Education and Policy”

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Mark Surman from the Mozilla Foundation

The Mozilla Foundation is unabashedly committed to a free and open web. They see it as a vital part of a healthy digital ecosystem where creativity and innovation can thrive. We couldn’t agree more. And we couldn’t be prouder to have Mozilla’s generous and ongoing support. We were recently able to catch up with Mark … Read More “Mark Surman from the Mozilla Foundation”

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Jeff Mao and Bob McIntire from the Maine Department of Education: Open Education and Policy

Maine has been a leader in adopting educational technology in support of its students. In 2002, through the Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI), the state began providing laptops to all students in grades 7-8 in a one-to-one laptop program. In 2009, Maine expanded the project to high school students. The one-to-one laptops paved the way … Read More “Jeff Mao and Bob McIntire from the Maine Department of Education: Open Education and Policy”

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Robert Cook-Deegan of the Center for Genomics at Duke

Sharing becomes a slippery slope when it comes to genomics: we need massive amounts of data in order to understand the human genome, but issues of privacy, abuse, and the distrust of institutions stand in the way. So how do we resolve this? We talked to Robert Cook-Deegan, the director of the Center for Genomics, … Read More “Robert Cook-Deegan of the Center for Genomics at Duke”

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Flat World Knowledge's Eric Frank: Open Education and Policy

At the beginning of this year we announced a revised approach to our education plans, focusing our activities to support of the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement. In order to do so we have worked hard to increase the amount of information available on our own site – in addition to an Education landing page and the OER … Read More “Flat World Knowledge's Eric Frank: Open Education and Policy”

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