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International Organisations (IOs) have been advancing the international OER policy agenda since 2002 (See the final report from a Forum [17] facilitated by UNESCO in 2002 during which the term OER was coined). In this respect, IOs have been issuing OER declarations, recommendations, and providing policy support, policy advice, awareness raising ...
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 ...
[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.
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 ...
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
OER Commons, created by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, was developed to serve curriculum experts and educators in discovering open educational resources (OER) and collaborating around the use, evaluation, and improvement of those materials. [1]
Open Educational Resource (OER) Universitas is a collaboration of post-secondary educational institutions and other organisations with the aim of providing opportunities to learn from open educational resources and gain credit at costs lower than traditional degrees. [1]
The resulting Paris OER Declaration (2012) reaffrmed the shared commitment of international organizations, governments, and institutions to promoting the open licensing and free sharing of publicly- funded content, the development of national policies and strategies on OER, capacity-building, and open research.