1. Open Educational Resources (OER) are digitized materials that can be freely used and reused for teaching, learning, and research. OER provide opportunities to improve access to education. 2. OER offer benefits like lowering costs, improving collaboration, and widening participation. They allow educators to efficiently create new materials and adapt existing ones. Learners gain access to new resources. 3. As educational resources transition from analog to digital formats and from closed to open systems, OER can bridge formal and informal learning and support lifelong learning through connectivity and personalization.

1. Making Education More Open with OER Professor Andy Lane, Senior Fellow, SCORE

3. The meaning of open in OER? (Geser, 2007)

4. Designs Many aspects and issues

14. Missing layers in the open educational innovation infrastructure open educational content documents, learning objects, datasets, multimedia, etc… content sharing tools, platforms, devices, etc … sensemaking: community discourse R&E, market intelligence: user behaviour

16. Impact on recruitment, preparation and progression