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1 Individual Responses 1.1 Adult and Higher Education 1.2 School Sector 2 Policy

Individual Responses

Adult and Higher Education

• Policy on intellectual property and security

• Clear and stated IP Policies

• Less politics internally - how to reduce and defuse

• Commitment at highest levels to open education and making policy to ensure it happens

• Clear ICT policy - University level decisions regarding privacy and confidentiality

• Competition and Sharing

• Recognition of learning and teaching occurring outside of official learning management system

• Ensuring government department understand each other's systems / needs for systems

• Advocacy and 'front of house'

• Promote standards agenda
  • Accessibility
  • Technical specifications
  • Metadata

• Help education leaders and senior executives understand and encourage open education

• TAFE sector - Interoperability across sectors

• Quality assurance guidelines to be flexible enough to accommodate Open Source Software

• Management resistant and afraid of adopting e-learning strategies much less open source sharing. Question is how to break down this wall?

• Management support

• Incentive

• Valuing diversity of practice and difference

• Copyright and IP surrounding research findings

• Open government department and collaboration

School Sector

Policy

Policy

• Policies imposed by state/federal govts that restrict choice

• 2 problems:

1. teachers pushing for change bumping up against system control
2. systems trying to promote change and support teachers to change (inertia)

• open does not equal policy
• policy does not equal anything goes

• The making of rules is to protect against litigation, difficult to make policy for rules

• Child protection – Fear of litigation
• Teenagers not aware(or low level following ) of boundaries/law. Openness requires the relaxing of control, that is, the devolving of responsibility of behaviour to students.
• Therefore the probability of breach of current rules is increased.

• Openness is unwieldy, much harder to manage, and control – increase restrictions decrease open education, reduce control increase breaches of current codes of conduct.

• Open is more work, more time because of following problems

• Competition - Schools, Teachers, Classes. Tribes.
• Open innovation is the sharing between competitors

• leadership
• risk avoidance mentality with policy makers
• open education policy not flexible?
• tension between guidelines / rules / standards =/ open
• learning spaces changed to encourage collaboration

• how can we construct an ongoing philosophical dialog drawing on the cape town declaration regarding the strengths of open space learning and the shadows or limitations.

• demonstrated success in classroom can override policy dictated by the system

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