| Open Education is often associated with the popular concept of Open Educational Resources (OER) – freely accessible, openly licensed resources that are used for teaching, learning, educational, assessment and research purposes. But Open Education is much more than just OER and involves aspects like opening up relevant educational data and changing both institutional and wider culture.
The Open Education Working Group from Open Knowledge International brings people together to promote Open Educational Practices and Open Educational Resources, as well as Open Policies, Open Science and Open Data in education. The Open Education Working Group has been established to bring together people and groups interested in open education. Its goal is to initiate global cross-sector and cross-domain activity that encompasses the various facets of open education. |
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By Javiera Atenas & Leo Havemann — We’ve recently returned from the OER19 conference in Galway, Ireland, where we had the opportunity of running the third edition of the Open Education Policy Co-creation (OEPC) workshop, and the outcomes were very interesting! But let’s start from the beginning. This workshop was originally developed in the context […]
By Werner Westermann (Versión en Castellano disponible en: El texto escolar será digital y abierto) Enough is enough! The issue of K-12 Textbooks in Chile cannot resist any longer. The straw that breaks the glass was the journalistic research which discovered that 1.7 million public textbooks were burnt in recycling plants during 2013 to 2016. […]
By Daniel Villar Onrubia — This month it is 30 years (CERN 2019) since Sir Tim Berners-Lee came up with his idea for an ‘information management system’ that effectively set the ground for the hyper-connected world that a considerable part of the global population now live in (thought still not truely worldwide). Originally conceived to […]
Guest post by Werner Westermann & Carlos Ruz Just as the new Open University of Recoleta was announced in November 2018, it immediately sparked a nationwide discussion about the public role of universities, due to an informal institution calling itself university. Recoleta’s major, the leader of a traditional but impoverished borough in Santiago, has been […]
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