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Summary
Summary
Education systems today face two major challenges: expanding the reach of education and improving its quality. Traditional solutions will not suffice, especially in the context of todays knowledge-intensive societies. The goal of the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement is to equalize access to knowledge worldwide through openly and freely available online high quality content. UNESCO has contributed to building global awareness about this movement by facilitating an extended conversation in cyberspace. Over a two-year period, a large and diverse international community discussed the concept and potential of OER in a series of online forums. The background papers and reports are now available in print, and provide food for thought for all those intrigued by OER its promise and its progress.
Table of Contents
Contributing authors | p. 13 |
Foreword | p. 15 |
Introduction | p. 17 |
Section 1 A First Forum: Presenting the Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement | |
1 Open Educational Resources: an introductory note | p. 29 |
2 Providing OER and related issues: an introductory note | p. 35 |
3 Using OER and related issues: an introductory note | p. 49 |
4 Discussion highlights | p. 61 |
Section 2 Ongoing Discussion | |
5 A research agenda for OER: discussion highlights | p. 85 |
6 A 'Do-It-Yourself' resource for OER: discussion highlights | p. 97 |
7 Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and OER | p. 105 |
Part 1 An introductory note | p. 105 |
Part 2 Discussion highlights | p. 113 |
Section 3 A Second Forum: Discussing the OECD Study of OER | |
8 Mapping producers and users | p. 127 |
9 Why individuals and institutions share and use OER | p. 135 |
10 Discussion highlights | p. 143 |
Section 4 Priorities for Action | |
11 Open Educational Resources: the way forward | p. 161 |