Fostering Governmental Support for Open Educational Resources Internationally: Europe

Abstract

The focus of our project is fostering governmental support for OER. Here in the Europe region there are vibrant OER initiatives under way in a number of countries. However, if our experience in other regions is any guide, these initiatives would be more sustainable if the governments of the region had more proactive policies on OER.//Stamenka has done a first analysis of Europe Region governments’ responses to our survey about OER policies and I will share that later. Globally we have received replies from over one hundred jurisdictions and they are being analysed in South Africa for presentation at the World OER Congress.