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.