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Open Education Global has several networks of OER experts that are open for others to join including:

• Community College Consortium for OER
• OE LATAM
• Regional Leaders of Open Education Network

There are a growing number of professional development courses for educators including:

Creative Commons Certificate SPARC Open Education Leadership Program OERu Open education, copyright and open licensing in a digital world Open Education Network Certificate in OER Librarianship

Most of these courses are openly licensed making them adaptable and reusable by others.

This is both a promise and a challenge associated with OER. Open education goes beyond simply opening access to knowledge. It involves a set of values, principles and open practices that aren't based on the model of a competitive marketplace but rather on that of a collaborative, shared, global public good. It transforms education from something done autonomously into something co-created by regional and global networks that make education by, for and with society.

The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science was adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO at its 41st session, in November 2021 https://en.unesco.org/science-sustainable-future/open-science/recommendation

The Open For Antiracism project is a good example of efforts to build OER that are non-discriminatory.

The Open Pedagogy Notebook provides some good examples of these innovative pedagogical options. A big part of the innovation involves co-creation of teaching and learning materials by teams of educators and learners working together. This reduces redundancy and creates higher quality by tapping into the knowledge and expertise of multiple people. Another key innovation involves engaging learners in assignments that produce outputs that benefit the public.

Implementation of the Recommendation is a shared activity involving both governments (taking legislative measures as noted in 2.) and education providers (such as institutions and schools) who put the recommendation into practice. In some ways the Recommendation itself provides a framework for policy / legislation and a framework for building a institutional implementation strategy / plan around.

This is a key area of action. What are governments doing? Is OER connected to digital and online education efforts associated with COVID response? Is OER linked to Open Access, Open Science and other forms of open across the academy? How can governments learn from and work with the open education community to make informed legislative action?

Add examples of existing legislative action. How effective have they been? ROI of investments?

Add examples of new policy. Add examples of existing policy that prohibits or disincentivizes open education being removed or revised.

The Open Education Global annual Open Education Awards for Excellence recognize and celebrate exemplary OER work, advances, research and success stories

I think the question is not so much "what is the sustainability model for OER?" but "is non-OER based education sustainable?"