[TOS] OT (sort of): Curriki’s Christine Mytko: Open Education and Policy

[Karsten Wade]

Great article, thanks for passing along.  If I get a chance to, I'll
invite the subject, Christine Mytko, to join this list.

On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 10:09:44AM -0700, tosmaillist.neophyte_rep at ordinaryamerican.net wrote:
> http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/22899
> 
> Opening paragraphs:
> 
> At the beginning of this year we (Creative Commons) announced a
> revised approach to our education plans, focusing our activities to
> support of the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement. In order to
> do so we have worked hard to increase the amount of information
> available on our own site – in addition to a new Education landing
> page and our OER portal explaining Creative Commons’ role as legal and
> technical infrastructure supporting OER, we have been conducting a
> series of interviews to help clarify some of the challenges and
> opportunities of OER in today’s education landscape.
> 
> One major venue for the advancement of OER is through policy change at
> the local, state, federal, and international levels. We recently had
> the chance to talk to Christine Mytko, who is advancing OER at the
> local levels through her work as a K-12 educator and the lead science
> reviewer at Curriki. As a teacher, Christine brings a unique
> perspective to the conversation around open education and policy, and
> gives us important insight into how teachers on the ground are
> thinking about copyright and using Creative Commons and OER.
> 
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