Portal:Open Education

Be part of a global celebration of open education
3–7 March 2025

Details: Visit the Open Education Portal on Wikipedia for details of the open education celebration

The Open Education Portal

Introduction

Open Education is an educational movement that is founded on openness.^[1]Open Educators use open educational resources (OER) and follow open education practices to make education more accessible, especially where the money for learning materials is scarce.^[2]. Openly licensed education resources (course materials, lesson plans, textbooks, games, software, etc) that support teaching and learning are used to broaden access to education.

Open Images on Wikipedia - load new batch

Image 1Creative Commons Japan Seminar, Tokyo (2007) (from Creative Commons)
Image 2Computers have allowed for easier collaboration and exposure to students work. (from Renewable assignment)
Image 3Open education and flexible learning (from Open education)
Image 4Open education and flexible learning (from Open education)
Image 5Infographic indicating what qualities a renewable assignment should have. (from Renewable assignment)
Image 6UNESCO Global Open Educational Resources logo (from Open educational resources)
Image 7A sign in a pub in Granada notifies customers that the music they are listening to is freely distributable under a Creative Commons license. (from Creative Commons)
Image 8Lawrence Lessig (January 2008) (from Creative Commons)
Image 9CC some rights reserved (from Creative Commons)
Image 10Creative Commons guiding the contributors. This image is a derivative work of Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix. (from Creative Commons)
Image 11This diagram visualizes an exemplary selection of applications of the paradigm of open educational practices. (from Open educational practices)

More about Open education
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- TU Delft | 2025 OE Ambassadors Awards
- From UNESCO recommendations to local action^[3] at Karlstad University

[1] ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_education

[2] ttps://www.capetowndeclaration.org/read/

[3] ttps://www.kau.se/en/bibliotek/oeweek-2025

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