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UNESCO-IIEP forums
There’s no doubt that everyone in the open educational space is interested in maximizing the benefits of open educational resources to global educational systems, both formal and informal. At times, though, it seems this may be the only thing the community as a whole agrees upon. If you are interested in getting an inside look at the debates raging in the open educational resources community, there’s no better place than the forums that have been hosted by UNESCO’s IIEP.
In a field as rapidly and widely developing as open educational resources, vigorous debate is both expected and for the most part healthy. In particular, the forums have helped me to forge connections with people and projects I otherwise would not have known about. Of particular interest to me was the forum on what open education could learn from the open source software movement–this was the site of some of the more active exchanges, and the discussion provides an interesting looks at where community members do and do not see overlaps with the models of open source software.
Susan d’Antoni and the rest of the staff at IIEP deserve a great deal of appreciation for their efforts in facilitating these discussions.
