Global Congress to Support Implementation of the UNESCO OER Recommendation: from commitment to action

The Open Education Global Conference is the main annual venue for Open Education practitioners, policy builders and decision makers. Supporters, advocates and students from all countries are encouraged to participate to benefit from the broadest view of Open Education.

Open Educational Practices are developing in all countries and have shown to be resilient in today’s extraordinary circumstances. Open Educational Resources (OER) are today at the heart of Open Education as they are what allows an open transmission of educational knowledge and the application of Open Education Practices.

In November 2019, UNESCO adopted, through its general assembly, the Recommendation on OER. This important document sets goals and landmarks to which all the signatory countries agreed.

The edition of Open Education Global 2021 & 2022 is a series of two events aimed at supporting UNESCO’s Recommendation and the Dynamic OER Coalition which has been constituted to support and advance the global agenda for open education.

The conference’s program will be aligned with the Recommendation both through its purpose and its full organization: the action areas of the Recommendation will be the building blocks of the conference and of the Call for Contributions:

1. Capacity Building: Focus is on ways global open education community is advancing capacity to create, access, re-use, adapt and redistribute OER
2. Policy: Focus is on ways global open education community is developing supportive policy
3. Access: Focus is on how global open education community is generating effective, inclusive and equitable access to quality OER
4. Sustainability: Focus is on engaging the global open education community with nurturing the creation of sustainability models for OER
5. International Cooperation: Focus is on engaging global open education community in international cooperation to advance UNESCO OER Recommendation

The main areas of action emphasized by UNESCO in the Recommendation are also important for the Conference; therefore, we aim to hold this conference in such a way that inclusiveness, multilingualism and universality take full meaning.