Op-Ed: ‘Are Open Educational Resources the Key to Global Economic Growth?’

Ambassador David T. Killion, U.S. Permanent Representative to UNESCO, and Sir John Daniel, President and CEO of the Commonwealth of Learning from 2004 to 2012 and UNESCO’s assistant director-general for education from 2001 to 2004, co-authored anopinion piece that appeared yesterday in The Guardian. In the piece, Ambassador Killion and Sir Daniel underscore why open educational resources are the key to global economic growth. The text of their article follows below.

As economic leaders gathered in Los Cabos in June to debate fiscal strategies for restoring global growth, educational leaders were meeting at UNESCO headquarters in Paris to discuss a different kind of solution.

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(Source: blogs.state.gov)