TY - JOUR T1 - Conference Report: Open Education 2007 JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2007 A1 - Andrew Pullin A1 - Kamal Hassin A1 - Monica Mora AB - Open Education Resources (OER) are educational material and resources that the general public can freely use for teaching, learning, and research. Like Open Source Software (OSS), OER contain content that is freely reused and redistributed without the traditional restrictions imposed by copyright. OER also includes the tools used to develop, improve, and distribute this content to communities. The Open Education 2007: Localizing and Learning conference was held at Utah State University in September. The conference focused on the ability of people to learn as simply publishing OER content online does not guarantee that it can be effectively used for learning. This theme was investigated from two perspectives. The first was from the developer perspective with the sharing of efforts to localize the educational content and make it more relevant to the people using it. The second was from the user perspective where organizations utilizing or deploying OER spoke of their experiences, challenges, and successes. This report provides an overview of the sustainability, localization, technological, legal and interoperability issues raised at the conference. It concludes with the authors' views regarding the future direction of OERs, based on their research being conducted at Carleton University's Technology Innovation Management program. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/59 IS - November 2007 U1 - Carleton University Andrew Pullin received a B.Sc. in Combined Honours Chemistry and Computer Science from Carleton University in 2006. He is currently a Master's student in the Technology and Innovation Management within the Faculty of Engineering at Carleton University. His research interests include open source project ecosystems, open source licensing and open educational resources. He currently acts as Associate Director for Shad Valley Carleton and serves on the Board of Advisors to Virtual Ventures. U2 - Carleton University Kamal Hassin received a B.Eng. in electrical engineering from Carleton University in 2004. He is currently a Master's student in Carleton University's Technology Innovation Management program. His research interests include software intellectual property management, intellectual property law, open source licensing, and open educational resources. U3 - CIDETYS Monica Mora received a Master's degree in Technology and Innovation Management from Carleton University. She has worked for the Technological University of Panama in different positions, including assistant professor and assistant of the President of this university. She is currently part of the technical committee of CIDETYS which was created to advise the Board of Directors and plan the first activities of the programme. ER -