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OEC represents its members and provides advocacy and leadership around advancement of open education globally. OEC works with its members to build capacity to find, reuse, create and share Open Educational Resources (OER), develop open policy, create sustainable open education models, and enable international collaboration and innovation. OEC annually coordinates and hosts Open Education Week, the Open Education Global conference, and Open Education Awards for Excellence. Collectively these efforts aim to bring high quality, inclusive education to all learners around the world.</p> <h4><strong>Our Mission</strong></h4> <p>We promote, support and advance openness in education around the world.</p> <h4><strong>Our Vision</strong></h4> <p>Empowerment through education.</p> <p>We envision a world where everyone, everywhere has access to the high quality education and training they desire; where education is seen as an essential, shared, and collaborative social good.</p> <h4><strong>Our Values</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Global focus</li> <li>Openness</li> <li>Equity</li> <li>Collaboration</li> <li>Multiculturalism</li> </ul> <h4><strong>Our Activities</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Awareness raising</li> <li>Networking and community development</li> <li>Advocacy and advising</li> <li>Capacity building and training</li> <li>Implementation support</li> <li>Consultancies</li> </ul> <h4><strong>What is Open Education?</strong></h4> <p>Open education encompasses resources, tools and practices that employ a framework of open sharing to improve educational access and effectiveness worldwide.</p> <p dir="ltr">Open Education combines the traditions of knowledge sharing and creation with 21<sup>st</sup> century technology to create a vast pool of openly shared educational resources, while harnessing today’s collaborative spirit to develop educational approaches that are more responsive to learner’s needs.</p> <p dir="ltr">The idea of free and open sharing in education is not new. In fact, sharing is probably the most basic characteristic of education: education is sharing knowledge, insights and information with others, upon which new knowledge, skills, ideas and understanding can be built. Open Education seeks to scale educational opportunities by taking advantage of the power of the internet, allowing rapid and essentially free dissemination, and enabling people around the world to access knowledge, connect and collaborate. Open is key; open allows not just access, but the ability to modify and use materials, information and networks so education can be personalized to individual users or woven together in new ways for large and diverse audiences.</p> <h4 dir="ltr"><strong>Why is Open Education important?</strong></h4> <p>Education is an essential tool for individuals and society to solve the challenges of the present and seize the opportunities of the future. However, the current provision of education is limited by educational institutions’ capacity, consequently, this resource is available to the few, not the many. The digital revolution offers a potential solution to these limitations, giving a global audience unprecedented access to free, open and high-quality educational resources.</p> <p>People want to learn. By providing free and open access to education and knowledge, people can fulfill this desire. Students can get additional information, viewpoints and materials to help them succeed. Workers can learn something that will help them on the job. Faculty can exchange material and draw on resources from all around the world. Researchers can share data and develop new networks. Teachers can find new ways to help students learn. People can connect with others they wouldn’t otherwise meet to share information and ideas. Materials can be translated, mixed together, broken apart and openly shared again, increasing access and allowing new approaches. Anyone can access educational materials, scholarly articles, and supportive learning communities anytime they want to. 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