Libre Educational Resources and Libre Universities Should We Redefine What is An University?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Teemu Leinonen[Edit][Delete]: Libre Educational Resources and Libre Universities âx" Should We Redefine What is An University?, FLOSSE Posse [Edit][Delete] January 6, 2006

Some interesting commentary on the recent UNESCO discussion on open educational resources (OER) ("I was surprised how UNESCO was able to find only North American moderators under the title 'provider perspective'. The 'user perspective' was provided from Egypt, China, African virtual university and a portal of Latin American universities) and on the distinction between OER and Libre Education Resources (LER). "Basically, it (LER) would mean that the content is free to be used for whatever: to changed it and to redistribute it. In practice this would mean releasing the resources under public domain or e.g. under GNU Free Documentation License. More...