CEST published a White Paper on Open Education

Centro de Estudos Sociedade e Tecnologia (CEST) launches a White Paper on Open Education. These documents from CEST aim to discuss the impact of new technologies on society. The current paper is authored by Fabio Nascimbeni, a researcher at CEST, graduated in Economics with a specialization in international administration and PhD in Labor Network for Development.

Open Education is an umbrella term that combines the idea of ​​knowledge sharing with the power of the Internet to improve access and efficiency in the educational world, through the adoption of resources, tools and learning practices based on open sharing practices.

Today the Open Education movement is moving from the concept of “open educational content” toward the “open education as a whole” in Brazil as well as in a number of other countries, with the support of the leading global networks in this field.

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