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Open and Online Education for
Inclusion and Justice
Being in Relation – Ethics and Values through Educational Collaboration for the Common
Good. Workshop - Bridging the Digital Gap: Ethics and Values for Inclusion
EBBA OSSIANNILSSON. PROFESSOR, DR. SWEDEN
INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR OPEN AND DISTANCE EDUCATION, BOARD MEMBER AND OER
ADVOCACY COMMITTE (CHAIR)
SWEDISH ASSOCIATION FOR OPEN, FLEXIBLE AND DISTANCE EDUCATION, VP

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UN UNESCO
Sustainability Goals
To mainstream Open Education and OER to
help all Member States to create inclusive
knowledge societies and achieve the 2030
Agenda for Sustainable Development,
SDG 4 (Quality education)
SDG 5 (Gender equality)
SDG 9 (Industry, innovation and
infrastructure)
SDG 10 (Reduced inequalities within and
across countries)
SDG 16 (Peace, justice and strong
institutions) and
SDG 17 (Partnerships for the goals)

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About the initiative
UNESCO’s Futures of Education
initiative aims to rethink
education and shape the future.
The initiative is catalyzing a
global debate on how
knowledge, education and
learning need to be reimagined
in a world of increasing
complexity, uncertainty, and
precarity.

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UN TRANSFORMING EDUCATION SUMMIT
An urgent political imperative for our collective future
• Education today is in turmoil. More than 90 % of the world’s children have had their
education interrupted by COVID-19 — the largest disruption of education systems
in history. For many students, especially girls and young women, this break may
become permanent, with potential consequences for their future and for future
generations that follow. The pandemic has also exposed large disparities not only
between countries, but particularly between different learner groups within
countries.
• The Transforming Education Summit was convened in response to a global crisis in
education – one of equity and inclusion, quality and relevance. Often slow and
unseen, this crisis is having a devastating impact on the futures of children and
youth worldwide.
• The Transforming Education Summit is a key initiative of Our Common
Agenda launched by UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, in September 2021.
The Summit took place during the 77th session of the UN General Assembly and
was convened by the Secretary-General with a view to elevating education to the
top of the global political agenda and to mobilize action, ambition, solidarity and
solutions to recover pandemic-related learning losses and sow the seeds to
transform education in a rapidly changing world.

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UN TRANSFORMING EDUCATION SUMMIT
An urgent political imperative for our collective future
• Education is a fundamental human right. It has long held a special place in the hearts and minds of people
across the world, and for good reason. Throughout history, it has been a source of personal dignity and
empowerment and a driving force for the advancement of social, economic, political, and cultural
development. Yet today, beset by inequalities and struggling to adjust to the needs of the 21st century,
education is in crisis. The impacts of this crisis play out over time and often go unseen. But they are profound
and will be felt for decades to come. If we are to transform our world by 2030 as envisaged by the
Sustainable Development Goals, then the international community must give this crisis the attention it
deserves. We must respond decisively, with conviction, imagination and in solidarity to transform education.
Informed by an extensive and inclusive preparatory process, we offer this vision statement to Member States
and the global public to support our joint efforts towards that transformation, to contribute to the upcoming
Summit of the Future, and as a manifesto for collective action.

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TRANSFORMING EDUCATION SUMMIT
An urgent political imperative for our collective future
Support
The Transforming Education Summit was supported by the European
Commission, as well as Dubai Cares, the Lego Foundation, and Qatar Fund

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Open, flexible and distance
education is one strategy that
enables economic, social,
political, and digital justice

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UNESCO OER Recommendation(2019)
• Capacity building: developing the capacity of all key education stakeholders to create, access, re-
use, re-purpose, adapt, and redistribute OER, as well as to use and apply open licenses in a
manner consistent with national copyright legislation and international obligations;
• Developing supportive policy: encouraging governments, and education authorities and
institutions to adopt regulatory frameworks to support open licensing of publicly funded educational
and research materials, develop strategiesto enable the use and adaptation of OER in support of
high quality, inclusive education and lifelong learning for all, supported by relevant research in the
area;
• Effective, inclusive and equitable access to quality OER: supporting the adoption of strategies
and programmes including through relevant technology solutions that ensure OER in any medium
are shared in open formats and standards to maximize equitable access, co-creation, curation, and
searchability, including for those from vulnerable groups and persons with disabilities;
• Nurturing the creation of sustainability models for OER: supporting and encouraging the
creation of sustainability models for OER at national, regional and institutional levels, and the
planning and pilot testing of new sustainable forms of education and learning;
• Fostering and facilitating international cooperation: supporting international cooperation
between stakeholders to minimize unnecessary duplication in OER development investments and
to develop a global pool of culturally diverse, locally relevant, gender-sensitive, accessible,
educational materials in multiple languages and form

14. Inamorato Dos Santos A, Punie Y and Castaño Muñoz J. Opening up Education: A Support Framework for Higher Education Institutions. EUR 27938. Luxembourg (Luxembourg): Publications
Office of the European Union; 2016. JRC101436

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