Every year, in early March, Open Education is celebrated during the OE week, promoted by Open Education Global. This is an event where groups over the world promote ideas and projects from Open Education.
With the help of our friends at the Unesco Chair RELIA and the EUniWell European University of Wellbeing, we thought it possible to contribute to this OE Week by re-examining the arguments we can use to convince people and institutions to go for Open Education.
We then contacted friends from all continents and asked them if they would like to contribute by writing an article on just one of these arguments.
There were several surprises for us in the hours following the launch of our call.
The teams in charge of the three blogs on which the articles will be initially published are really excited about this, even if they also are having to deal with some (expected) interesting difficulties, especially regarding the different ways to handle multilingualism.
On our UNOE blog, each article will be available in at least 2 of the 4 official languages of the United Nations present in the network: English, French, Spanish, Arabic.
23 articles but only 7 days a week!
For our participation in the OE Week, we had imagined unveiling a “good reason” each day of the week. But with the 23 articles that we’re expecting, and a week only having 7 days, we’ve opted to go for an Open Education Month, in the spirit promoted by our friends from Quebec!
All the material will be under a CC-BY licence, allowing general distribution. So, anyone who sees value in posting, reposting, transforming the posts is encouraged to contact us early so that we can help them.
We hope this operation and the series of resulting articles will enrich our reflexion and also help UNOE appear as a legitimate actor of Open Education.
Join us here in early March to explore 23 good reasons for Open Education throughout the month!
