Digital resources and English as an additional language in higher education: possibilities for internationalization

Rodrigo Esteves de Lima-Lopes; Terezinha Marcondes Diniz  Biazi

doi:10.5007/2175-8026.2021.e79735

Authors

Rodrigo Esteves de Lima-Lopes Universidade Estadual de Campinas http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3681-1553
Terezinha Marcondes Diniz Biazi Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8599-8786

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2021.e79735

Abstract

Given the recognition of the Open Education Resources (OER) movement in the global scenario, this paper provides an overview of the OER implementation efforts, based on two documents: OER Global Report 2017 and Ljubljana OER Action Plan 2017. The first analyzes the OER progress from 2012 to 2017. The second presents recommended actions and strategies to harness the potential of open-licensed resources. We argue that these documents helped to compose the actions and strategies from the 2019 UNESCO OER Recommendation, which, in turn, motivated UNESCO and partnerships to produce an OER guide under the Pandemic COVID-19, following the 2019 OER Recommendations. Aligned with the innovative experiences brought by the guide, we emphasize the relevance of OER for knowledge sharing.

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