[IAEP] Grants for Open Educational Resources

[Edward Cherlin]

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 13:19, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I intend to apply for creating digital textbook replacements. Anyone
>> else interested?
>
> How about affiliating with Sugar Labs as a Sugar Labs project?

Certainly. I have several pages on the Sugar Labs Wiki about it. This
is the place to start.

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team/Creating_textbooks

>> http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/22912
>>
>> U.S. Department of Education includes OER in notice of proposed
>> priorities for grant programs
>> Timothy Vollmer, August 5th, 2010
>>
>> Today the U.S. Department of Education took another big step in
>> supporting open educational resources (OER). In the Federal Register,
>> the Department released a notice of proposed priorities (NPP):
>>
>>    The Secretary of Education proposes priorities that the Department
>> of Education (Department) may use for any appropriate discretionary
>> grant program in fiscal year (FY) 2011 and future years … This action
>> will permit all offices in the Department to use, as appropriate for
>> particular discretionary grant programs, one or more of these
>> priorities in any discretionary grant competition.
>>
>> The set of proposed priorities specifically mentions OER. Essentially,
>> if the priorities are adopted, it could mean that grant seekers who
>> include open educational resources as a component of an application
>> for funding from the Department of Education could receive priority.
>> OER is included in Proposed Priority 13–Improving Productivity:
>>
>>    Projects that are designed to significantly increase efficiency in
>> the use of time, staff, money, or other resources. Such projects may
>> include innovative and sustainable uses of technology, modification of
>> school schedules, use of open educational resources (as defined in
>> this notice), or other strategies that improve results and increase
>> productivity.
>>
>> As mentioned, the NPP includes a definition of open educational resources:
>>
>>    Open educational resources (OER) means teaching, learning, and
>> research resources that reside in the public domain or have been
>> released under an intellectual property license that permits their
>> free use or repurposing by others.
>>
>> Interested parties may submit comments to the notice of proposed
>> priorities until September 7, 2010. Information about how to submit a
>> comment is described in the notice.
>>
>> --
>> Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin
>> Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation.
>> The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination.
>> http://www.earthtreasury.org/
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Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin
Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation.
The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination.
http://www.earthtreasury.org/