Open Education and the Sustainable Development Goals: Making Change Happen

dc.contributor.author Lane, Andy
dc.contributor.editor Gaskell, Anne
dc.coverage.spatial Global en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2017-11-20T23:58:23Z
dc.date.available 2017-11-20T23:58:23Z
dc.date.issued 2017-11
dc.description.abstract Education for All has been a concept at the heart of international development since 1990 and has found its latest instantiation within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as SDG 4, ‘Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all’. Open education, in the form of resources and practices are both seen as contributors to SDG4 as evidenced by the recent 2nd World Open Educational Resources Congress. The ambition for open education to contribute to the SDGs is clear from this and other gatherings but the means to make it happen are not as clear, and many have claimed that little has happened since the SDGs were launched in 2015. To help address this apparent gap, this paper: (1) sets out the scale and scope of the SDGs; (2) reviews the potential contribution of open educational resources and practices to support the SDGs, and (3) uses a framing of power and systems thinking to review the way open education activities might be fostered within tertiary education in all local, national and regional contexts in order to support the SDGs, and not just SDG 4. It will also tentatively propose a theory of change that brings together power relationships, systems thinking and open education as key components and provide a case study of how this might work in practice through a newly funded project proposal. It is hoped that this theory of change and proposal will be a starting point for wider debate and discussion on how to make change happen in this important arena. en_US
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.56059/jl4d.v4i3.266
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/11599/2815
dc.publisher Commonwealth of Learning (COL) en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Journal of Learning for Development;vol. 4, no. 3
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ en_US
dc.source.uri http://jl4d.org/index.php/ejl4d/article/view/266/256 en_US
dc.subject Open Educational Resources (OER) en_US
dc.subject Models and Frameworks en_US
dc.title Open Education and the Sustainable Development Goals: Making Change Happen en_US
dc.type Article en_US
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