Based on the same fundamental principles of openness as the original OER Wiki - which was created in 2005 by the UNESCO International
Institute for Educational Planning - the new Community offers a greater number of features including news announcements, web
and e-mail discussions, blogs, wikis, photo, video and file sharing, and a debate function.
The OER Community is hosted on the UNESCO-maintained Platform for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The original UNESCO OER Wiki is still available but will shortly be locked with any historically valuable content transferred to the new WSIS OER Community.
In partnership with ICDE and other key European institutions, UNESCO is a member of the Open Educational Quality (OPAL) Initiative to develop a Framework of OER Practices that improve quality and innovation in education.
21 February 2011