Covid-19 Crisis: UNESCO Call to Support Learning and Knowledge Sharing through Open Educational Resources

In response to the massive disruption of education due to the Covid-19 pandemic affecting 1.57 billion learners in 191 countries, UNESCO has issued a Call to support learning and knowledge sharing through Open Educational Resources (OER) worldwide.

The Call encourages implementation of the OER Recommendation, which  identifies  actions in five main areas: Capacity building and use of OER; Developing supportive policy; effective, inclusive and equitable access to quality OER; Nurturing the creation of sustainability models for OER; fostering and facilitating international cooperation.

This Call highlights the important role of the recently launched Covid-19 Global Education Coalition and the Dynamic OER Coalition, a multi-stakeholder group dedicated to sharing expertise, to facilitate and support joint actions.

The Call is available at: https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/covid19_joint_oer_call_en.pdf

The full article can be found at: https://en.unesco.org/news/covid-19-crisis-unesco-call-support-learning-and-knowledge-sharing-through-open-educational.