With respect to OERs, modding is often a practice that is explictly encouraged. Modding enables users of an OER (whether 'teachers' or 'learners' re-use and adapt the resource to suit their own particular purposes. 

Open education is a term you have probably heard, but do you know what it means? As its name suggests, it relates to two concepts – openness and education – but it means a whole lot more. What are its aims, benefits and limits? This guide offers a number of tips and avenues for action to help answer these questions and encourage you to make the most of open education. There is a strong focus on open education in the Louvain 2020 strategic plan. UCLouvain wishes to align itself with a vision of the future and the need to share resources, practices, knowledge, tools and more in order to improve access to education, including outside the confines of the University, and education itself. The open education movement is already well established at UCLouvain. Many teachers have shown an interest and have already embraced it. What about you? This guide is intended to help you navigate open education. It explains concepts such as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), Open Educational Resources (OERs), OpenCourseWare (OCW) and Creative Commons (CC) licences.
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Open Education, un terme que vous avez probablement déjà entendu mais savez-vous pour autant ce qu’il signifie ? Un terme qui sous-entend l’ouverture, l’éducation mais qui ne s’y limite pas. Quel objectif ? Quels avantages ? Quelles limites ? Autant de questions auxquelles ce cahier tentera de répondre en vous livrant quelques clés et pistes d’action pour vous emparer de l’Open Education. Dans son plan stratégique Louvain 2020, l’UCLouvain accorde une attention parti-culière au mouvement de l’Open Education. L’université souhaite répondre à une vision d’avenir, à un besoin de partage des ressources, de mise à disposition de pratiques, de connaissances, d’outils, etc. afin d’améliorer l’accès et l’efficacité de l’éducation y compris au-delà de ses frontières. Le mouvement de l’Open Education est déjà bien ancré au sein de l’université. Nombreux sont les enseignant·e·s qui s’y intéressent et se sont déjà lancés dans la pratique. Et vous ? Ce cahier se veut être un guide pour vous accompagner dans l’Open Education. Il ouvre les portes de certaines notions telles que les Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), les Open Educational Resources (OER), les OpenCourseWare (OCW) ou encore les licences Creative Commons (CC). Bonne lecture !
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Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.

Powtoon presentation on Open Educational Resources produced for the Elearnin Pedagogy Master's in Open University - Portugal.

Apresentação do Powtoon sobre Recursos Educacionais Abertos na UC de Materiais e Recursos para e-Learning, do Mestrado em Pedagogia do e-Learning da Universidade Aberta - Portugal

New version with better sound and sub-titles in English, already available!