2019 UNESCO Recommendation on OER
Action Area 2 – Supportive Policy
AI and OER Initiatives
The convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and Open Educational Resources (OER) unlocks transformative opportunities for personalized learning, intelligent content recommendations, and automated translation. To fully harness these benefits, policies must emphasize the ethical deployment of AI in OER, ensuring transparency, fairness, and equitable access. Strategic investment in AI-powered OER platforms should prioritize inclusive design, proactive bias mitigation, and robust multilingual capabilities, fostering a more accessible and globally impactful learning ecosystem.
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Open University of Tanzania Case Study
The Open University of Tanzania (OUT) is an open and distance learning (ODL) institution, operating through a network of 30 regional centres and ten coordinating centres spread throughout the United Republic of Tanzania and beyond the country borders to other parts of Africa. OUT has engaged in several open educational resources (OER) initiatives, starting from 2008 when it began working with OER Africa.
OER Africa collaborated with the OUT management team, the OUT Institute of Educational and Management Technologies (IEMT), and the OUT Library to implement the activities of the Institutionalization of OER Practices Project. The project was framed by a Participatory Action Research approach designed to share and disseminate the project outcomes. -
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Case Study
This initiative focused on policy, practice, and research regarding health-related OER. It covered eleven disciplines at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The initiative was inspired by the reality that CHS had an increasing number of medical students and therefore an increased demand for practical sessions. However, students were often unable to see what was happening in practical sessions because of their large numbers.