The fifth International Day of Education is celebrated on 24 January 2023 under the theme “to invest in people, prioritize education”.
What parallels can we draw between this day, the OER Recommendation and OER capacity building?
How do these fit with OER and the UNESCO OER Recommendation that we discussed in March 2022? While the International Day of Education does not specifically link to OER, we note that the day provides an opportunity to showcase OER within each of the critical areas, or create OER where they are not available.
The concept note stresses the need to capacitate policy makers, teachers and educators to make education transformative, while one of the OER Recommendation’s areas of action is to build stakeholder capacity, as we highlight below. Here, we briefly examine each of the critical areas from the UN Transforming Education Summit, to show how OER and other available resources can help with operationalising the Recommendation. Read more
