Open Educational Resources in Brazil: State-of-the-art, challenges and prospects for development and innovation
| Published | 2011 |
| Periodical | Pages 1-78 |
| Publisher | UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education |
| Country | Brazil, Russia, South America |
ABSTRACT
The book “Open Educational Resources in Brazil: State-of-the-Art, Challenges and Prospects for Development and Innovation”(author – Andreia Inamorato dos Santos) has been out of print. This is the second IITE publication within the series of case studies summarizing best practices of OER development in non-English-speaking countries. The study contains an overview of the Brazilian educational landscape, national educational policy and the strategies of ICT use in education. The author describes existing open digital content repositories with due emphasis on the copyright situation and considers several examples of successful international OER projects which involved Brazilian partners. The book is destined for those who study OER initiatives and projects on a national scale as well as promotion of OER movement worldwide.| Keywords | collaboration · copyright · national educational policy · non-English OER · OER projects · repository |
| Published at | Moscow |
| Language | eng |
| ISSN | 978-5-905175-06-0 |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Rights | © UNESCO, 2011 |
| URL | http://iite.unesco.org/pics/publications/en/files/3214695.pdf |
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