OECD Releases New Report About Open Educational Resources, Full Text Free to Download

New from OECD.
Title

Open Educational Resources: A Catalyst for Innovation

Authors

Dominic Orr

Michele Rimini

Dirk van Damme

Source

OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation

Abstract

Education is the key to economic, social and environmental progress, and governments around the world are looking to improve their education systems. The future of education in the 21st century is not simply about reaching more people, but about improving the quality and diversity of educational opportunities. How to best organise and support teaching and learning requires imagination, creativity and innovation.

Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research materials that make use of tools such as open licensing to permit their free reuse, continuous improvement and repurposing by others for educational purposes. The OER community has grown considerably over the past 10 years and the impact of OER on educational systems has become a pervasive element of educational policy

This report aims to highlight state of the art developments and practices in OER, but also to demonstrate how OER can be a tool for innovation in teaching and learning.

Several figures and data tables.

Direct to Full Text Report (148 pages;PDF)

Full Text Also Available by Chapter and in French

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