Open Educational Resources: Challenges and Perspectives

Open Educational Resources is a concept that needs to be understood and appreciated from national perspectives and, mainly, from different structures of educational systems and strategies. Education is a deeply contextual and continuous process, so the global themes of access and openness must be studied in local implementations if they are to take root in local communities.

Brazil has taken one of the leading positions in the A2K, Open Source/free Software and Open Access movements, but still has taken small steps in consolidating an Open Education Resources strategy based in a structured approach. It is also notorious that some of the projects born during the current administration are technology driven, lacking a clear position inside a contemporary tendency. And unlike Open Access, which draws on the "invisible colleges" of research in which a biologist in Brazil has much in common with a biologist in Germany, Open Education must draw on much more local culture to make learning appropriate and lifelong. There is a significant need to both identify the global aspects of the OER movement and to learn skills and strategies to localize those aspects through the creation of country and community specific implementations.

Thus, in order to understand the complexity of a possible existing scenario of Open Educational Resources in Brazil and to propose recommendations, structuring the way forward, some basic research and mapping is needed.

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Education

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