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This week, we explored the interesting world of Open Education and through some activities, we had some good discussions about Open Educational Practices (OEP) and Open Education Resources (OER), as well as we were tasked with reflecting on the applicability of these concepts in our own contexts.
After completing this week’s readings, one takeaway for me was that Open Education is, at its core, sharing freely and with open access. Free in the sense that OER are offered free of charge, with freedom of use, and open, to a certain degree, allowing everyone to reuse and modify them.
Open learning is changing the way people can access education and training opportunities, whether for professional development or personal interest. I think that it is important that open learning products are designed with good quality, to facilitate a good and effective experience for the learner(s) that strengthens the acquisition of new information and skills while offering different learning paths, according to their interests and needs.