Learning Beyond Textbooks

"The Brazilian Project on Open Educational Resources: Challenges and Perspectives is a project that works to leverage the international discussion around Open Educational Resources to the Brazilians’ reality and perspectives. The objectives of the project include developing a Green Paper mapping the situation of OER in Brazil....The initial recommendations arising from the Green Paper include the following: publicly funded educational materials should be considered to be public goods and made available under the international definitions of OER....The OER-Brazil project has been asked by members of Congress there to help draft a bill which would mandate public access to publicly funded educational materials following a joint Congressional hearing before the Commission on Education and the Commission on Technology and Innovations...."