Find here, at a glance, all the articles in the #SharingIsAChallenge series
As part of Open Education Week (OE Week) and in collaboration with the UNESCO RELIA Chair and EUniWell (European University of Wellbeing), we explored, throughout March, the obstacles that arise when we wish to share our educational resources and the challenges we must then overcome.
30 authors from 15 countries collaborated and, through these 17 articles written in 6 different languages, shared with us the obstacles they encountered during their experiences of sharing, and proposed solutions to overcome them and take on the challenge of making sharing easier.
This initiative was made possible thanks to collaborative work. Our warmest thanks to all the authors for accepting our invitation and rising to the challenge!
10 Feb 2026
Sharing… Our challenges for 2026
Every year at the beginning of March, open education is celebrated during OEWeek (Open Education Week), promoted by Open Education Global.
This year, sharing is our guiding thread. We have identified 16 obstacles or challenges to sharing: some are real and may be linked to a lack of technological or…
10 Feb 2026
03 Mar 2026
Beyond Prestige: Whose Knowledge Counts in Open Education?
Am I legitimate in sharing? This question, which we all ask ourselves, is the starting point of the article by Marcela Morales (Mexico), Co-Executive Director of Open Education Global. Her analysis and her answer should reassure us…
03 Mar 2026
04 Mar 2026
“My Precious”: Why Academics Guard Their Teaching Resources and Data (But Happily Share Their Articles)
Javiera Atenas and Leo Havemann (Suffolk University and University College London in the United Kingdom) note that while research professors are willing to share their research findings, this is much less the case for those in education. Why is there such a difference? In their analysis, they also offer…
04 Mar 2026
05 Mar 2026
Do we still need OER in the age of AI?
Mitja Jermol (Slovenia) and Fawzi Baroud (Lebanon) tackle a recent obstacle: do the successes of generative AI make OER obsolete? Starting from two very different perspectives, they come to similar and unexpected conclusions: producing open educational resources has never been more important!
05 Mar 2026
09 Mar 2026
Open Educational Resources Under Siege: The Risk of Losing “My Precious” out of Fear of Plunder
Two articles chose the unhealthy relationship between Gollum, Tolkien’s fictional character, and his ring to illustrate the difficulty of sharing. Pierre-Antoine Gourraud (Nantes Université, France) shares out of conviction. He is aware that science is built on people borrowing from each other and that participating in this science means plundering…
09 Mar 2026
10 Mar 2026
Open Education: When Sharing Becomes Colonization
This is a complicated subject in some countries. Is there, in certain forms of sharing, a more or less well-disguised colonialism? It is with great pleasure that we welcome Mpine Makoe (University of South Africa), Darrion Letendre and Robert Lawson (NorQuest College of Edmonton, Canada) to try to answer this…
10 Mar 2026
11 Mar 2026
The Naivety We Need To Outgrow
Must one be naive to share? That is the initial question that motivates the contribution of Dorothy Laubscher, from North-West University in South Africa. Her field experience in South Africa is put to good use: it is far away… and yet universal. And also, a beautiful enthusiasm that brings hope.
11 Mar 2026
12 Mar 2026
From Judgement to Sharing: Rethinking Teaching Practices in the Era of Open Education
Latifa Chahbi, Loubna Terhaz, Khalid Berrada and Alan Levine (Morocco, USA) have created a new ad hoc team to tackle the issue of judgement. The analysis then shifts to North Africa, where OER have long been championed, and the global vision provided by Alan Levine. References abound, and experiences are…
12 Mar 2026
16 Mar 2026
Who Owns AI-Generated Content?
Perhaps the most famous sharer of all time is Robin Hood. But he was also an outlaw. So it’s quite normal that we should all be concerned about sharing today. What is the reality? When do I have the right to share? And above all… what changes with AI? These…
16 Mar 2026
17 Mar 2026
A Community Through Sharing
Zoltan Lantos is a lecturer and researcher at Semmelweis University in Hungary. His story is one shared by many of his colleagues: it begins with a decision to share resources that initially seemed logical, then sees those resources gradually come to life, and ends with a sense of wonder at…
17 Mar 2026
18 Mar 2026
A Journey into the Hurdle of Complexity
Barbara Class and Henrietta Carbonel from UniDistance Switzerland, and Mathilde Panes from the University of Teacher Education of the Canton of Vaud, rose to the challenge posed by the technical complexities of sharing. They succeeded in explaining to us why these technical issues are, above all, conceptual issues. And they…
18 Mar 2026
18 Mar 2026
Encouraging sharing relies on a systemic and holistic approach
Souhad Shlaka examines the issue of competition through the lens of her own experience as a lecturer and researcher at Mohammed V University (Morocco). The question raised was that of competition being imposed as a model of governance: how do we respond in order to replace it with a different…
18 Mar 2026
23 Mar 2026
Between openness and responsibility: how to make good use of Open Educational Resources
Virginia Rodés and Regina Motz (both from Uruguay, although Virginia is now employed by the Institute for the Future of Education and lives and works in Spain) examine the potential misuse of OER. Their analysis, based on very recent findings, shows above all that simply sharing is not enough. For…
23 Mar 2026
24 Mar 2026
From Obligation to Recognition in Open Education
Are we sometimes expected to share? Is it sometimes counterproductive to force people to share? Answering these complex questions is the challenge taken up by Luc Massou (University of Lorraine, France), who draws on his experience at the French Ministry of Higher Education.
24 Mar 2026
25 Mar 2026
How Authors Can Make Their OERs “Discoverable”
Discoverability… Now that’s a rather strange word. The starting point for our ‘discoverability’ challenge was the realisation that it’s very difficult to ask someone to share something if, for one reason or another, the course you’re sharing is hidden from view. In the so-called Global North, the challenge becomes doing…
25 Mar 2026
26 Mar 2026
Open Educational Resources: Is Sharing Really Time-Consuming?
A fine group of authors has come together to address this significant challenge: that producing OER takes too long. Sophie Depoterre, José-Miguel Escobar-Zuniga, Paul Lyonnaz and Nadia Villeneuve (Leuven, Belgium; Sherbrooke, Canada; Nantes, France; and Laval, Canada). Their conclusion is realistic: yes, it takes time to design an OER! But…
26 Mar 2026
30 Mar 2026
Potential Serendipity over Expectations of Gratitude
Alan Levine is one of the most active advocates in the open world. Every day, he manages to share online a website, an initiative or an idea that advances the open movement somewhere in the world. In this article, he draws on his own experiences to explain why it is…
30 Mar 2026
31 Mar 2026
“Sharing is a Challenge” : the Series Comes to an End, the Sharing Continues
As Open Education Month draws to a close, the series “Sharing is a Challenge” comes to an end. A huge thank you to everyone who made this possible — authors, translators, proofreaders and partners.The 14 male and 16 female authors from 15 countries have written 17 articles in 6 languages:…
31 Mar 2026
