Open Educational Resources: The Way Forward. Deliberations of an International Community of Interest

The term Open Educational Resources (OER) was adopted at a UNESCO meeting in 2002 to refer to the open provision of educational resources, enabled by information and communication technologies, for consultation, use and adaptation by a community of users for non-commercial purposes. The participants expressed “their wish to develop together a universal educational resource available for the whole of humanity” and “the hope that this open resource for the future mobilizes the whole of the worldwide community of educators”.1