Die Entwicklung von Open Educational Ressources (Offene Bildungsmaterialien) interessiert in Deutschland leider fast Niemanden. In den USA ist das mittlerweile anders. Dort gibt es zahlreiche Initiativen, die sich um das Thema bilde und auch große Organisationen wie Mozilla und Creative Commons sind mit dabei. Die US-Regierung will sogar zwei Milliarden Dollar in den kommenden vier Jahren bereitstellen, um damit die Entwicklung von offenen Bildungsmaterialien zu finanzieren. Die Bedingung ist: Erstellte Inhalte müssen unter der Creative Commons Namensnennungs-Lizenz veröffentlicht und geteilt werden.
Mehr dazu bei Creative Commons: New federal education fund makes available $2 billion to create OER resources in community colleges.
The U.S. Department of Labor and the Department of Education announced a new education fund that will grant $2 billion to create open educational resources (OER) materials for career training programs in community colleges. The Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant Program (TAACCCT) will invest $2 billion over the next four years into grants that will “provide community colleges and other eligible institutions of higher education with funds to expand and improve their ability to deliver education and career training programs.” What’s more, the full program announcement (PDF) states that all the resources created using these funds must be released under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. The first round of funding will be $500 million over the next year. Applications to the solicitation are now open, and will be due April 21, 2011. Read what our incoming CEO, Cathy Casserly, has to say at the full post.
Und Deutschland verschläft das Thema wieder.