Open educational resources: Global report 2017
| Published | September 2017 |
| Periodical | Pages 1-92 |
| Publisher | Commonwealth of Learning |
ABSTRACT
Three documents have been developed in the framework of the 2nd World OER Congress. The two documents: Open Educational Resources: From Commitment to Action and the Open Educational Resources: Global Report 2017 provide the outcomes of the six regional consultations and global surveys conducted prior to the 2nd World OER Congress. The third document, Ljubljana OER Action Plan 2017, will be the outcome document of the 2nd World OER Congress and is based on the outputs of the regional consultations, a global online consultation of the document in the months leading up to the Congress and the deliberations of the 2nd World OER Congress. All three documents are complementary and provide a framework for both understanding the current status of OER worldwide and identifying concrete actions to mainstream OER to achieve SDG4.| Keywords | Africa · barriers · Caribbean · challenges · Europe · Latin America · mainstreaming OER · MENA · North America · OER platforms · OER policy · OER repositories · OER research |
| Published at | Burnaby, British Columbia |
| ISBN | 978-1-894975-92-6 |
| Refereed | Does not apply |
| Rights | by/4.0 |
| URL | http://hdl.handle.net/11599/2788 |
| Export options | BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar |
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