As an educator and founder of a nonprofit education institute, I believe, as does recent TED Prize winner,

As a self-professed metadata geek, I’ve recently been participating in an online discussion about metadata and the Learning Registry. I have to say, it feels as if I’m on a merry-go-round that won’t stop, because for the past 10 years I’ve engaged in dozens if not hundreds of conversations about the use of OER (open education resources) metadata concerning these same issues: Do we need it?

Michael Q. McShane’s article, “Open Education: Is the federal government overstepping its role?” (Winter 2017) makes the case that educators are essentially consumers of open education resources (OER) who lack the time, skill, and support to handle the “administrivia” required to be serious developers of content and pedagogy that can meet the needs of their students. Yet this is precisely what educators and librarians are doing nationwide.

Education Policy Analysis Archives is a peer reviewed, independent, open access, multilingual journal. EPAA/AAPE just published a special issue & two videos commentaries (in English)

Models of Open Education in Higher Education

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As one of six regional accrediting commissions recognized by the US Department of Education, the Senior College Commission of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) is responsible to serve as “a reliable authority to assure institutional quality and integrity.” WASC entered a redesign process in 2010 to take significant steps to enhance its role as an agent of quality assurance and public accountability. In doing so, WASC will give greater attention to student success and student learning in the accreditation process.

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This chapter presents a research-based professional learning model and open educational practice rubric that supports the emergence of school librarians as instructional leaders in the curation and use of OER content. After discussing a case study that led to the codification of the model and the rubric, the chapter more fully explores the model’s connection to the American Library Association Core Values of Librarianship. PDF attached below. 

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