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Open education policies are “formal regulations regarding support, funding, adoption, and use of Open Educational Resources (OER) and/or Open Educational Practices (OEP). Such policies are designed to support the creation, adoption, and sharing of OER and the design and integration of OEP into programs of study”.
A unique approach for an institutional certification on OER was implemented in 2022 in Austria: Austrian higher education institutions can use the OER certification to show and verify their activities and competences, approved will be an institutional OER policy, an OER repository and a certain number of coworkers with an own national OER ...
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 Cape Town Open Education Declaration is a major international statement on open access, open education and open educational resources. It emerged from a conference on open education hosted in Cape Town on 14 and 15 September 2007 by the Shuttleworth Foundation and the Open Society Institute . [ 1 ]