Open Educational Resources: Analysis of Responses to the OECD Country Questionnaire

OECD's Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) has worked on Open Educational
Resources (OER) in the past, which led to the publication Giving Knowledge for Free ? the Emergence of
Open Educational Resources (2007). This working paper thus builds on exploratory and forward-looking
research in CERI and invites countries to consider the policy implications of the expansion of OER, its
benefits and associated challenges.
A small OER expert group was established to discuss the subject, link it to other relevant developments in
the field, and develop a draft questionnaire for member countries in order to collect information regarding
the policy context related to OER. The expert group met in June 2011 and for a second time in September
2011. The questionnaire was sent to the 34 OECD member countries in August 2011. It outlined a short
informative note about the benefits and challenges of OER. The responses to the questionnaire are
analysed in this document.