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Defining OER

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Open Educational Resources (OERs) are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.

UNESCO

Education | Public good

UNESCO Chair in OER

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Facilitate mainstream adoption of OER in post-secondary education on a global scale

Support institutions to better achieve their strategic goals using OER

Objective of the job

Job responsibilities

OERu - Flagship initiative

International social innovation partnership

Challenges bring opportunities

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Affordability of course materials

87% of presidents strongly agree/ agree that textbooks and course materials cost too much

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81% of learners report that lack of access to textbooks has had a negative effect on their academic performance

Inside Higher Ed

COEP National Survey

UNESCO Recommendation on OER

Build capacity to find, re-use, create and share OER

Develop supportive policy

Ensure inclusive and equitable access to quality OER

Nurture the creation of sustainability models for OER

Facilitate international co-operation

GOVT MONITORING - (Normative instrument)

Strategies to monitor educational effectiveness and long-term financial efficiency

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Open technology

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Learning complex skills

Can you learn to ride a bike by reading a book?

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OERu's open source NGDLE

Sustainable education

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Strategic tensions

Non-sustainable

Sustainable

Independent

Collaborative

Open collaboration

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu

Elizabeth Warren

Higher level support?

"On the part of rich countries there is excessive zeal for protecting knowledge through unduly rigid assertion of the right to intellectual property ..."

Pope Benedect XVI

LEARN MORE AT

OERu.org