Open education

Not to be confused with open science, open educational practices, open educational resources, or open learning.

Open education is an international learning standards and education policy open standards movement based on open source openness.

It was created inspired by the historiography of history of education educational movements of the twentieth century such as popular education, community education, and critical pedagogy, all of which promote the widening participation and inclusiveness in society based on open access with the aim of information access to learning and training in informal and formal education systems, mainly through online and distance education.

Its main products are open educational resources (OER), open source software educational technologies (edtech), open science, open research projects, and open educational practices.

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