DRAFT text 18 April 2018 - Recommendation on Open Educational Resources (OER)

"Noting these potential benefits, the objectives of this OER Recommendation are as follows:

(i) Capacity building: develop the capacity of all key education stakeholders to create, use and share OER; to use and apply open licenses correctly; and to understand the uses of works covered by copyright exceptions and limitations for education and research purposes in domestic and cross-border settings;

(ii) Developing supportive policy: encourage governments to openly license publicly funded educational materials and develop strategies to enable broad use and adaptation of OER in support of high quality, inclusive education for all learners;

(iii) Inclusive and equitable access to quality OER: OER are shared online and offline, in editable formats, on curated, interoperable, searchable platforms that make them easy to find, use, adapt and share;

(iv) Sustainability models for OER: support and encourage the creation of sustainability models for OER on the national and institutional levels;

(v) International cooperation: support international cooperation between education stakeholders to minimize unnecessary duplication in OER development investments and to develop a global pool of culturally diverse, locally relevant, gender-sensitive, accessible, educational materials in multiple languages."