Hawai'i Senate OER Bill Update: Amended language saves the day | Phil Hill

ab1630's bookmarks 2018-02-14

Summary:

"On Friday I reported about SB2328, a bill that passed (with amendments) the Hawai'i Senate Committee on Higher Education and would have mandated open educational resources (OER) for all courses at all 10 University of Hawai'i campuses. And if there were no adequate OER materials for a course? ". . . the faculty member or lecturer responsible with providing instruction for the course shall create the instructional materials and offer those materials free of charge to students through open educational resources."

This bill was a disaster in the making. Not only would it have been unworkable in terms of funding and intellectual property ownership, it would also have set back the OER movement by associating OER with unfunded faculty mandates and reduction of academic freedom. All this from good intentions but apparently shallow understanding...."

Link:

https://mfeldstein.com/hawaii-senate-oer-bill-update-amended-language-saves-day/

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Date tagged:

02/14/2018, 17:49

Date published:

02/14/2018, 12:49