Policy and development

International OER policy: milestones

• Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002)
• UNESCO Forum on Open Courseware (2002)
• UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) & Global OER Community (2005)
• Cape Town Open Education Declaration (2007)
• Dakar Declaration on OER (2009)
• Commonwealth of Learning/UNESCO Guidelines on OER in HE (2011)
• 2012 OER Paris Declaration

Asia region

• Chinese Quality Open Course Project (2011)
• Indonesia Higher Education Law

Some readings about OER policy and practices:

1. Policy Guidelines for the Development and promotion of Open Access to Scientific Information and Research (2011)
2. Policy Recommendations for open educational practice (2012)
3. A Grand Tour of OER Policy (2014) by Robert Farrow

POERUP is an organisation carrying out research to understand how governments can stimulate the uptake of OER by policy means. The result is a global inventory of over 300 relevant national and other large-scale OER initiatives and 11 country reports and 5 mini-reports.