{"id":59942,"date":"2021-10-21T03:51:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T07:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=59942"},"modified":"2021-10-21T03:54:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T07:54:07","slug":"open-educational-resources-a-challenge-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/open-educational-resources-a-challenge-for-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Open educational resources, a challenge for the future"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIn a knowledge-based economy, the creation of new knowledge and its dissemination to as many people as possible play a central role.\u00a0This is the objective pursued by the Open Education movement, which works to develop free educational resources.\u00a0According to Unesco,\u00a0<\/span>these resources include<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u201cteaching, learning or research materials in the public domain or published with an intellectual property license allowing their use, adaptation and distribution free of charge\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Usually, a teacher creating a course or a textbook sees his original work protected by copyright which defines its use and reuse.\u00a0Thanks to this intellectual property protection, the educational resource is made exclusive, i.e. it is possible to prevent someone from using it, and the author has a monopoly on its exploitation right.<\/span><\/p>\n

Its access is often de facto paid.\u00a0What is more, its reproduction, modification and distribution by others is limited, unless expressly authorized with each user.\u00a0Open educational resources, on the other hand, make the educational resource non-exclusive and free to access.\u00a0Its dissemination is also facilitated and derivative works modifying the original course or textbook are permitted under existing free distribution licenses.<\/span><\/p>\n

A range of conditions<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Relying among others on the open universities developed some fifty years ago in Anglo-Saxon countries where there is no academic condition for admission to the education offered, the Open Education movement has seen its practices disrupted by the emergence of the Internet and information and communication technologies.\u00a0These negate the costs of reproduction and distribution.\u00a0Compared to a\u00a0<\/span>school textbook<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in paper format, an online textbook can be easily copied and distributed to as many people as possible in a few clicks, thus becoming a global public good.<\/span><\/p>\n

For public authorities, such as the European Commission or international organizations such as Unesco or the OECD, open educational resources have a dual interest:<\/span><\/p>\n