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OER policies (also sometimes known as laws, regulations, strategies, guidelines, principles or tenets) are adopted by governments, institutions or organisations in support of the creation and use of open content, specifically open educational resources (OER), and related open educational practices.
A large part of the early work on open educational resources was funded by universities and foundations such as the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, [51] which was the main financial supporter of open educational resources in the early years and has spent more than $110 million in the 2002 to 2010 period, of which more than $14 million ...
The International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE): "Open Educational Practices are defined as practices which support the production, use and reuse of high quality open educational resources (OER) through institutional policies, which promote innovative pedagogical models, and respect and empower learners as co-producers on their ...
[1] [2] At this point, the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement was a decade old, the term having been coined in another meeting at UNESCO in 2002. [2] The congress wrote and, on 22 June, formally adopted a ten-point declaration calling on states to realise the benefits of open education.
Open educational resources policy; Open-door academic policy; United Kingdom Accreditation Service; 2011 Commonwealth of Learning and UNESCO Guidelines on Open Educational Resources in Higher Education; 2011 Commonwealth of Learning and UNESCO A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources
The qualifier "open" refers to the elimination of barriers that can preclude both opportunities and recognition for participation in institution-based learning. One aspect of openness or "opening up" education is the development and adoption of open educational resources in support of open educational practices.
Open textbooks and other open educational resources may be found on several platforms, typically organized by universities and non-profit organizations, such as MERLOT. [35] The University of Minnesota Open Textbook library is coordinated through the Center for Open Education and is a repository of downloadable open textbooks.
The aim of this meeting [being] to "accelerate efforts to promote open resources, technology, and teaching practices in education". Individuals and organizations that sign the Declaration share its "statement of principle, a statement of strategy and a statement of commitment". [2] The declaration was released officially [3] on January 22, 2008.