2nd UNESO World Open Educational Resources (OER) Congress

The 2nd World Open Educational Resources (OER) Congress was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 18–20 September 2017, co-organized by UNESCO and the Government of Slovenia. This event marked five years since the World OER Congress was held in Paris in June 2012.

It was organized by two X5GON partners, namely the Slovenian Ministry of Education, Science and Sport in close collaboration with the Slovenian National Commission for UNESCO, the Jožef Stefan Institute and its  UNESCO Chair on Open Technologies for OER and Open Learning with the generous support of knowledge 4 All Foundation, University College London and University Nantes with its UNESCO Chair in OER, coordinating and facilitating around 21 satellite events.

The Congress has hosted the kickoff of X5GON and achnowledged at as one of its main results in synchrosnising with the policies in delivering the first building blocks for an open and artificial intelligence powered infrastructure to easily connect all global OER sites/siloses and provide a digestion pipeline for understanding content including by th use of machine translation, reasoning, recommendation, automatic curation, personalisation and aggregation of OER.

Group Photo 2nd World Open Educational Resources (OER) Congress

H.E. Dr Milan Brglez, President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia

Slovenian organizing team for the 2nd World Open Educational Resources (OER) Congress

H.E. Dr Maja Makovec Brenčič, Minister of the Republic of Slovenia of Education, Science and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia

Mr Indrajit Banerjee, Director, Knowledge Societies Division, UNESCO

Mr Tibor Navracsics, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport

Ministerial Panel: The Importance of OER for SDG 4 from the National Perspective