Special report on the role of open educational resources in supporting the sustainable development goal 4: Quality education challenges and opportunities

TY - JOUR

T1 - Special report on the role of open educational resources in supporting the sustainable development goal 4

T2 - Quality education challenges and opportunities

AU - McGreal, Rory

N1 - Funding Information: Nevertheless, there are several national open access initiatives, including the federal government's Open Data pilot project, which enables access to content that can be used to support OER development. In addition, the Tri-Council funding agencies—Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)—have all agreed on a Tri-Agency Open Access Policy, supporting open access publishing of all federally-funded research. While, this federal policy focuses on research publications, many of these, when used for teaching, can be considered to be OER. There is confusion between OER and open access, along with the concept of openness in general; there is a large grey area between open access and OER, in addition to openness. Even so, the federal government policies support the principle that all publicly-funded content should be openly accessible and reusable. Funding Information: This paper was made possible by a grant from the Canadian Commission for UNESCO.

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85035770827&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.19173/irrodl.v18i7.3541

DO - 10.19173/irrodl.v18i7.3541

M3 - Journal Article

AN - SCOPUS:85035770827

SN - 1492-3831

VL - 18

SP - 292

EP - 305

JO - International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning

JF - International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning

IS - 7

ER -