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Open Education Now

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Catherine Cronin

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Commonwealth of Learning, National Forum

Discipline(s)

Teaching & Learning

Topic(s)

Accessibility and Inclusion, Open Education, Teaching and Learning Practice

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CC BY-SA

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Video

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National Forum

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Open Education Now. The potential benefits of open education are often considered in three areas: expanding access to education, enhancing pedagogy, and advancing equity.

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The potential benefits of open education are often considered in three areas: expanding access to education, enhancing pedagogy, and advancing equity. With a long history, open education gained increased attention in 2020 as educators responded to the Covid-19 pandemic. In April 2020, UNESCO called on the global community to support the use of open educational resources “with a view to building more inclusive, sustainable and resilient Knowledge Societies”. In a time when local and global inequalities have been exposed so dramatically, how can open educational resources and practices (OER and OEP) facilitate practical and equitable approaches to learning, teaching and assessment in our respective contexts?

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Cronin, C. (2021). Open education now. National Resource Hub (Ireland). Retrieved from: https://hub.teachingandlearning.ie/resource/open-education-now/ License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA).

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