The UNESCO-COL Policy Forum, organized to examine the results of the 'Taking OER beyond the OER community' initiative, brought together decision makers in governments, institutions and funding bodies representing over 60 countries. The aim of the Policy Forum was to establish a strategy to move forward the results of this initiative to best capitalize on the use of OER for quality higher education provision.

Download the background paper and all presentations made during the forum from the UNESCO Policy Forum website. Among the presentations available are those given by Sir John Daniel of the Commonwealth of Learning, Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic from UNESCO, Martin Bean, Vice-Chancellor of the Open University, UK and Tobias Schonwetter of Creative Commons.

UNESCO Policy Forum website    University World News article

5 January 2011