IT and Education: International workshop “Open Educational Resources and Intellectual Property Rights” in Moscow

May 31 – June 1, 2011 Moscow is holding the International workshop “Open Educational Resources and Intellectual Property Rights” which has been organized by UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE), UNESCO Moscow Office and the UNESCO Communication and Information Sector together with the National Research University “UNESCO Department on Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Rights” – Higher School of Economics.

The Workshop will contribute to a wider strategy “Fostering ICT-enhanced learning through knowledge sharing, Open Educational Resources (OER), networking and cooperation” by promoting OER movement in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and other non-English speaking countries through elaboration of guidelines for the production and use of OER and recommendations for the application of open licenses.

The workshop addresses the following issues:

- Global tendencies in OER.

- OER in CIS, China and other non-English speaking countries.

- IITE gateway to OER in CIS.

- IITE online course on Open Educational Resources.

- UNESCO CI Sector OER Community and OER Platform.

- Open licenses and Creative Commons under different jurisdictions.

- Russian/CIS legislation and Creative Commons licenses.

- Strategies for the promotion of open licenses.