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Why openness in education? Why open education?

These questions have been asked by many since the label “open” was applied to education and coined in 1998 by David Wiley.[1] Four years later, UNESCO created the term “open educational resources (OER)” at its 2002 Forum on the Impact of Open Courseware for Higher Education in Developing Countries to describe a new global phenomenon of openly sharing educational resources. [2] This international organization, “the only United Nations agency with a mandate to cover all aspects of education,” believes that building strong education systems around the world will help to eradicate poverty, promote peace, and encourage sustainable development. [3]

There are several resources that examine both OEP (open educational practice a.k.a. open pedagogy) and OER (open educational resources). Some of these are listed below.

  1. See https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Open_Education_Handbook/History_of_the_OER_movement ↵
  2. From https://en.unesco.org/themes/building-knowledge-societies/oer ↵
  3. https://en.unesco.org/themes/education ↵

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