Today, a more institutional point of view brought to us by Luc Massou (@Luc.Massou), who is involved on the French national strategy on open education at the French Ministry of Higher Education. Luc tackles the question of “obligation”.
While aknowledging that there are some barriers to sharing OER (it is felt like an obligation, it is too time-consuming - an article on this is coming very shortly, or it is additional and unpaid work), Luc gives some inputs to get a different perspectives on them.
And he also addresses the question of “making the production of OER compulsory for teachers”, which, according to him, would be “counterproductive”. At the moment, we need to build an enabling environment with strong support structures and recognition for committing to Open Education.
Here, it is important to specify that something similar has been done with Open Science in Europe. Data and results from scientific research funded by the EU under the Horizon Europe programme (2020-2027) must be published in open access, following the principle of “as open as possible, as closed as necessary”.
From obligation to recognition in open education by Luc Massou
Are we sometimes expected to share? Is it sometimes counterproductive to force people to share? Answering these complex questions is the challenge taken up by Luc Massou (University of Lorraine, France), who draws on his experience at the French Ministry of Higher Education.
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As the creation of an institutional environment favourable to open education is a frequent recommendation in the articles in this series, this article provides interesting insights into the current thinking within the French government. Thanks to @Luc.Massou for the inputs!