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8/9/2019 Introduction to OERs (Open Educational Resources) Neil Butcher OER Africa
I have a vision for education systems globallywherein teachers, schools, and institutions, cometogether in some common online space to startsharing the materials they have produced in an effortultimately to ensure all the material that learners willneed to complete their studies successfully can beaccessed legally without any costs of licensing.
There are vast quantities of such material alreadyavailable across the world, from which no-one isgenerating any meaningful commercial return andmany more being produced every week.
These represent a common intellectual capital thatshould be unlocked to drive and support educationrather than kept hidden away from sight.
8/9/2019 Introduction to OERs (Open Educational Resources) Neil Butcher OER Africa
The initial results will be messy and there will be
many problems to solve, such as how to createappropriate curriculum frameworks for storingcontent and mechanisms to help with assessingquality.
But online communities have demonstrated the now
indisputable power and value of lots of peopleworking collaboratively towards a common cause.
And doing this in education has the potential to re-focus education systems, restoring the core values of building and sharing knowledge that underpin good
education, and systematically encouraging us to workwith and learn from each other.