[Oer-community] Forwarded message from Mike Trucano

Susan D'Antoni susandantoni at gmail.com
Tue Nov 13 06:36:33 MST 2012


Dear Colleagues,

Mike Trucano of the World Bank is also travelling but interested in the
deliberations of our community.

Best,

Susan

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Dear Susan,

As you know, I try to follow developments within the OER community as
closely as I can as part of my work at the World Bank helping to advise
countries on how they can effectively take advantage of innovative
technology-related tools and practices to help meet a wide variety of
educational objectives.  While the term 'open educational resources' has
now been around for a decade, it is only now that I find that it is
becoming part of the mainstream discussion around long-range planing,
resource allocation and pedagogical practices within many ministries of
education.

The upcoming effort to explore some sort of 'OER world map' could be an
important tool to inform such discussions, helping to broaden
considerations around this important topic beyond just the committed
stalwart institutions and individuals who have been so instrumental in
developments over the past decade.

I take it as a given that the results of this work, if it indeed comes to
pass, will be made freely and openly available.  I do hope that it will not
only the results that are made available, however, but also the underlying
data as well. We have recently made a big (and very personally welcome)
commitment to 'open data' here at the World Bank, in a belief that broader
access to data will allow policymakers and advocacy groups to make
better-informed decisions and measure improvements more accurately. Making
whatever data results from an OER mapping initiative available in open
formats can make it more likely that other can easily build on and extend
this effort, eventually (and hopefully) helping to serve a variety of
useful objectives. The OER community has been inspirational for many of us
looking for guidance and examples on how open approaches to information
sharing can work in actual practice. The new initiative you are leading at
Athabasca to map OER initiatives globally would provide a great tool for
policymakers to be better able to locate where related innovations are
occurring, so that related lessons can inform and and inspire innovative
approaches to providing students and teachers with the tools they need to
succeed.

Best of luck!

Regards,
 Mike
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Michael Trucano *
Sr. ICT & Education Specialist
Human Development Network (HDNED)
The World Bank
1818 H St. NW, MSN G7-700, Washington, DC 20433, USA

email: *mtrucano at worldbank.org* <mtrucano at worldbank.org>
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website: *www.worldbank.org/education/ict*<http://www.worldbank.org/education/ict>
Twitter: @*trucano* <http://twitter.com/trucano>,
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