Supporting Learning and Knowledge Sharing through Open Educational Resources (OER)

"OER provide a promising solution to access, create and share knowledge and support learning for learners of all grade levels, as well as for teachers, teacher trainers and educators, parents, educational policy makers and governmental bodies. Beyond this, they carry value for a wide range of constituencies, including cultural institutions (such as libraries, archives and museums) and their users, researchers, civil society organizations (including professional and student associations), publishers, the public and private sectors, intergovernmental organizations, copyright holders and authors, as well as media and broadcasting groups. They can help meet the needs of individual learners, including persons with disabilities and individuals coming from marginalized or disadvantaged groups, and effectively promote gender equality as well asincentivize innovative pedagogical, didactical and methodological approaches....

Today we are at a pivotal moment in history. The Covid-19 crisis has resulted in a paradigm shift on how learners of all ages, worldwide, can access learning. It is therefore more than ever essential that the global community comestogether now to foster universal access to information and knowledge through OER. Our joint action aims at managing the challenges of this and future pandemic crisis’ for learners, as well as to laying the foundation for integrating systematically best practices to increase the sharing of knowledge for the post-Covid-19 future of learning...."