2nd World Open Educational Resources (OER) Congress

OER for Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education: From Commitment to Action

18-20 September 2017, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Result: Ljubljana OER Action Plan At the 2nd World Congress on OER delegates adopted the Ljubljana OER Action Plan 2017

Result: Ministerial Statement Ministers call for actions in specific key areas to support the mainstreaming of OER

Result: Dynamic Coalition The Slovenian government to create a placeholder to share open educational and OER initiatives, which can be replicated and scaled up across the world

Result: OER Slovenian case —
From Commitment to Action The Slovenian government is implementing open education and OER into its educational system

Result: Global infrastructure for OER First step towards implementing the Ljubljana Action Plan by solving the problem of connecting all global OER sites

Result: Video Collection Portfolio of keynotes and discussions forming the largest collection of OER themed talks

6 Regional Consultations

21 Satellite Events

Virtual Congress

OER for Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education: From Commitment to Action

The 2nd World Open Educational Resources (OER) Congress is scheduled to be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 18–20 September 2017, co-organized by UNESCO and the Government of Slovenia. This event will mark five years since the World OER Congress was held in Paris in June 2012.

The Congress will follow the theme »OER for Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education: From Commitment to Action«, reflecting a strong focus on the role of OER in achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4.

Organized by UNESCO and the Slovenian Ministry of Education, Science and Sport in close collaboration with the Commonwealth of Learning, Creative Commons, the Slovenian National Commission for UNESCO and the UNESCO Chair on Open Technologies for OER and Open Learning (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia) with the generous support of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

About the Congress

100 Member States

30 ministers, deputy ministers and state secretaries

500 congress participants

140 satellite participants

21 satellites

105 countries in the Consultations

260 participants an the Consultations

Honorary Patronage by The Commissioner for Education, Culture, European Multilingualism and Youth

Honorary Patronage by President of the Republic of Slovenia

UNESCO Deputy Director General

UNESCO Assistant Director General for Education

Western Balkan ministers for "Opening up South East Europe"

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I find it odd that UNESCO's draft Recommendation on #OER does not include more language about learners and learning. The draft is heavily skewed towards content which will not fully support the stated Aims and Objectives https://t.co/JruedCUzBc #KSCollab
— Jenny Darrow (@gobman) May 19, 2018

Contribute to the draft #OER recommendation text, deadline 1 June #openeducation @UNESCO https://t.co/dWmn1tKxgf
— ICDE (@icde_org) May 15, 2018

You have a few more weeks to contribute to the draft OER recommendation text. Deadline for inputs, 1 June 2018 https://t.co/ao1W9NELtU
— OEConsortium (@oeconsortium) May 14, 2018

Invitation to contribute to the #UNESCO Recommendation on Open Educational Resources (#OER) https://t.co/qbOjNloaR1
— 3CL (@3CLMT) May 14, 2018

Open invitation: please contribute to the draft OER recommendation of UNESCO - deadline June 1st https://t.co/skkbTRRycI
— Open Education (@Open_Education) May 14, 2018

A draft UNESCO Recommendation on Open Educational Resources (#OER) text is currently being prepared. https://t.co/lnhn14AGna Deadline for inputs is 1 June 2018.
— Michael Kopp (@koanmi) May 14, 2018