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UNESCO OER Toolkit released

October 15th, 2009 Posted by: lukebeaman

UNESCO (with support from their Communications and Information Sector) released their OER Toolkit today as a resource for academics and institutions, who are interested in participating in open education projects. The toolkit has also been created with a special focus on developing countries according to the press release, the draft facilitated by Philipp Schmidt of the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

The toolkit is hosted on the OER_Wiki and will potentially be released as a refined PDF version in future if there is support from the community. As ever in the OER world, UNESCO advise that the toolkit is a work in progress (hence the wiki hosting) and as such may change and evolve over time as the outlook and oppotunities afforded the OER movement do.

The toolkit is primarily designed for academics with an interest in finding and using OER relevant to the courses they teach, or who wish to publish OER that they have developed – OpenLearn allows people to do this in the LabSpace. Some sections of the toolkit, however, are aimed at institutional decision-makers and academics that may aspire to set up their own OER projects. This content could also be of interest to institutional planners, IT staff or librarians who are interested in setting up an OER project and could benefit from understanding the academic’s perspective.

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