Open Educational Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace

The term Open Educational Resources (OER) was coined in 2002 during the UNESCO Forum on the Impact of Open Courseware for Higher Education in Developing Countries, convened to consider the potential, for developing countries, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) initiative to put course materials online for open access. The participants in the meeting defined Open Educational Resources as digitalized materials offered freely and openly to educators, students and independent learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research. With their final declaration, the participants expressed