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"Open educational resource policies (OER policies) are principles or tenets adopted by governing bodies in support of the use of open content—specifically open educational resources (OER) -- and practices in educational institutions. Such policies are emerging increasingly at the national, state/province, and local levels."
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 ...
OEP represent teaching and learning techniques that draw upon open and participatory technologies and high-quality open educational resources (OER) in order to facilitate collaborative and flexible learning. [3] [4] Because OEP emerged from the study of OER, there is a strong connection between the two concepts. [5]
To support interoperability, OER Commons is an experimental node in the Learning Registry, a joint US Department of Education and US Department of Defense initiative to support educational content and platform interoperability. [9] The OER Commons contains custom curated resource collections, or microsites.
An open textbook is a textbook licensed under an open license, and made available online to be freely used by students, teachers and members of the public.Many open textbooks are distributed in either print, e-book, or audio formats that may be downloaded or purchased at little or no cost.
In 2011 ISKME announced a matching grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to support the Big Ideas in Beta program, focused on incubating innovation in education. [23] In 2017, the American Association of School Librarians recognized ISKME's OER Commons as one of the nation's best websites for teaching and learning. [24]
OER Project is a non-profit open educational resources provider co-founded in 2011 by Bill Gates and David Christian.Originally known as Big History Project (BHP), the titular course was intended to enable the global teaching of the subject of Big History, which has been described as "the attempt to understand, in a unified way, the history of Cosmos, Earth, Life and Humanity."
Reinforce the development of strategies and policies on OER. Promote the understanding and use of open licensing frameworks. Support capacity building for the sustainable development of quality learning materials. Foster strategic alliances for OER. Encourage the development and adaptation of OER in a variety of languages and cultural contexts.