{"id":330,"date":"2010-04-07T21:30:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T04:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/?p=330"},"modified":"2010-04-07T21:30:07","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T04:30:07","slug":"now-is-the-time-to-make-sure-resources-are-shared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/330","title":{"rendered":"Now is the time to make sure resources are shared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sreb.org\">Southern Regional Education Board (SREB)<\/a> has long been a bastion of sound educational policy recommendations, and they have recently come forth with some very solid guidelines on OER in the report<a href=\"http:\/\/publications.sreb.org\/2010\/10T02_Guidelines_Eff_Pol.pdf\"> &#8220;An Expectation of Sharing: Guidelines for Effective Policies to Respect, Protect and Increase the Use of Digital Educational Resources.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Authored by the SCORE Working Group on Digital Content Rights, this bold and well-written report begins with the assertion that &#8220;most electronic educational resources created in the last decade by teachers and technology specialists&#8230;cannot be used in the classrooms of teachers outside the narrow groups for which they were originally developed&#8221; because no sharing licenses were used. The report then goes on to make some very specific and clear policy recommendations:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. All digital resources developed with public funding should be licensed to share.<br \/>\n2. The least restrictive license possible should be used, specifically <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\/us\/\">CC BY<\/a>.<br \/>\n3. These resources should be housed in accessible digital content repositories with the relevant supporting infrastructure.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThese recommendations are excellent and should be immediately adopted by federal agencies, state departments, and local districts for all publicly funded projects.<\/p>\n<p>With dollars flowing into various new development projects related to RttT, Common Core, national assessments, etc., the time is now to make sure all schools can share in these resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) has long been a bastion of sound educational policy recommendations, and they have recently come forth with some very solid guidelines on OER in the report &#8220;An Expectation of Sharing: Guidelines for Effective Policies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6mlV-5k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}