The 21st Century

The open access movement has gained increasing traction within universities, leading to the creation of numerous courseware repositories of open educational res (do #OER address the Unesco priorities?

Addressing a major concern of Member States, UNESCO has released a new publication entitled Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access to demystify the concept of Open Access and provide concrete steps on putting relevant policies in place.

UNESCO encourages international peace and universal respect for human rights by promoting collaboration among nations.

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Open educational resources (OER) are becoming a feature of education all over the world though the uptake is often very patchy. Mostly it's a grassroots movement with groups of teachers and individual schools or colleges taking admirable initiatives. However top-down support for OER is still unusual and without this I don't believe that OER can become mainstream.

In full partnership with the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and through the generous support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, UNESCO is organizing the 2012 World OER Congress, which will take place on 20 – 22 June 2012 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.

A survey pulling together 560 non-governmental organization (NGO) workers that was designed to demonstrate how NGOs are using wireless technology to help reach various social, civil, economic, and political goals.

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