Sussan Huggins

2. The Year of Open is a global focus on
open processes, systems, and tools,
created through collaborative
approaches, that enhance our education,
businesses, governments, and
organizations.
Is the Year of Open?

3. 15 years ago the term “Open Educational
Resources” was created,
the Budapest Open Access Initiative was
launched,
WHY is 2017 the Year of Open?
2017 marks some significant milestones for open education:

4. And the first Creative Commons
licenses were released;
10 years ago the Cape
Town Open Education Declaration was
written;

5. 5 years ago the first Open
Education Week took place and
the first OER World Congress
was held, resulting in the
Paris OER Declaration.

6. HOW you can get involved
>Download and display the Year of Open banner
and logo
>Host a webinar or event in your community
>Add your events to the Year of Open Events
calendar
>Write an opinion or editorial article
>Participate in an open initiative
>Contribute to an Open Perspective topic
>BE SOCIAL …..#YearofOpen

7. Post an Impact story:
https://www.facebook.com/yearofopen/
Use #YearofOpen

8. MONTHLY TOPIC
Participate in the monthly topics....
What is …… Open Education? Open Access?
Open Source Software? Open Science? Open
Policy? Open Licenses? Open Pedagogy?

10. Upcoming Open Perspective topics
include:
Open Pedagogy Open Culture
Open Science Open Licenses
Open Policy Open Web
Open Degrees

11. What’s Next?

12. Contact me with your ideas
Susan Huggins, Communications Director
Twitter: @SusanHuggins
Susan.Huggins@oeconsortium.org