The UNESCO OER Toolkit is designed as a toolkit for developing country universities. It draws on experience from institutions around the world to describe in practical terms how universities can:

• •.identify Open Educational Resources (OER) and share them with academics and students; 

• •.integrate Open Educational Resources into teaching and learning practices; 

• •.publish their own Open Educational Resources. 

It is aimed at individual academics and decision-makers in higher education institutions that are interested in becoming active participants in the OER world, as publishers and users of OER.

Over the past few years a significant number of initiatives and projects have emerged to support the development and sharing of Open Educational Resources (OER) – so be welcome to join this movement, be it as a education institution, service provider, or as an interested individual.

The UNESCO OER Toolkit is there to help you understanding how to benefit from and use free and open educational resources. If you are familiar with FOSS, then the concept of OER should not be to strange to you anyway.

About Open Educational Resources (OER)

The Open Educational Resources (OER) movement can be traced back to developments in open and distance learning (ODL) and the emergence of collaborative peer-production communities, such as developer communities for open source software projects. The term Open Educational Resources describes digitalized materials offered freely and openly for use and re-use in teaching, learning and research. The term was first used in July 2002 during a UNESCO forum on the potential of open courseware for higher education in developing countries. Most definitions agree that OER include content, software tools, licenses and best practices.

UNESCO OER Toolkit

http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=UNESCO_OER_Toolkit