The Knowledge Society tends to democratize knowledge. Free licensing movements, where the property is no longer central, but it created is accessible to the community, proliferate today. LEARNING REVIEW has investigated how this trend applies to educational resources.
The movement of the Open Educational Resources (OER or OER, its acronym in English) is basically the initiative to share digitized in an open and free for use in teaching, learning and research for educators and students around the world.
The term was first adopted by UNESCO in 2002, Forum on the Impact of Open CourseWare for Higher Education in Developing Countries, sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, an institution that provides large subsidies to educational and cultural institutions. There was defined as "REA are a resource for teaching, learning and research, which reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license allows your use is free for other people. These include: full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, videos, tests, software and other tools, materials or techniques used to support access to knowledge".