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There is global action on copyright reform for education. One session explored the international evidence that “copyright is broken” for education. Speakers at this session highlighted local concerns:
- Teresa Nobre, Portugal: Europe has harmonized rights but not exceptions.
- Delia Brown, Australia: under the current statutory licensing scheme Australia pays more than anybody else in the world to provide content for education.
- Michael Geist, Canada: Publishers & copyright collecting agencies cite Canada as a worst case scenario for fair dealing for education but Michael regards it as a best case. The Supreme Court of Canada are “copyright rock stars” handing down five decisions which interpreted fair dealing as a user’s right- thereby balancing rights.
Image: Right Copyright slogan from Communia http://rightcopyright.eu/spread-the-word/
Open Education Resources
Cable Green presented a really interesting session on mainstreaming open educational resources (OER) by hooking into sustainable development goals (SDGs). Cable challenged: what if instead of a traditional class, a teacher had curriculum that worked on a health issue based in the relevant subject but with all content open licensed and contributed to SDG?
Citizen scientists
David Wiley has blogged about time spent on “disposable assignments”. This could be re-tasked to build, revise, remix, and curate OER to work on/ solve SDGs. OERS can be continuously updated because of the open licence.
Students changing the world
Open practices can shift to students and teachers building, revising and creating community around OER. Students want their work to make a difference in the world.
Open textbooks
Student societies lead the argument on the cost of education. Students are not buying textbooks because of cost.
Open Policy
A growing body of research shows that integrating Open Educational Resources in teaching and learning improves student retention and outcomes.
There was so much more to the 2017 Creative Commons Global Summit than I have mentioned here. for more perspectives, I recommend these Summit Blogs.]]>