Obama highlights open education in U.S. Open Government Partnership National Action Plan
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| Published | September 2014 |
| Type of work | web blog |
| Periodical | Volume 2014 |
| Publisher | Creative Commons |
| Country | United States, North America |
ABSTRACT
Yesterday at the United Nations, President Barack Obama marked the Open Government Partnership‘s (OGP) third anniversary by announcing that in addition to the commitments outlined in the current U.S. OGP National Action Plan, “The United States will take additional steps to make our government more open, transparent, and accessible for all Americans.”Among the multiple new commitments: “Promote open educational resources, to help teachers and students everywhere.”
The multi-pronged commitment to promote OER is described as the first item in the updated National Action Plan Commitments document
| Keywords | cable green · OER · OGP · open government · open policy · U.S. OGP National Action Plan · YouTube |
| Rights | by/4.0 |
| URL | http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/43817 |
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