Greetings Open Education Friends:

Open Education Resources (OER) have a central role* to play in Sustainable Development Goal 4: Education which calls for the international community to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all” with its key pillars of access, equity and inclusion.

Together with UNESCO, Slovenia is inviting countries to collaborate, explore and exchange best practices in the digital and open transformation of education. Slovenia will organize and host the 2nd World OER Congress in cooperation with the Commonwealth of Learning, Creative Commons, the UNESCO Chair on Open Technologies for OER and Open Learning, the Knowledge 4 All Foundation and other partners.**

(1) Please mark your calendar and plan to attend the 2nd World OER Congress: 18-20 September 2017 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

(2) Congress web site (under construction): http://www.oercongress.org

(3) OER Stakeholder Survey: http://rcoer.col.org/surveys.html

• this survey is for all of us to complete
  

(4) OER Congress Regional Consultations: http://rcoer.col.org

• locations / dates: http://rcoer.col.org/venues--dates.html
  
• objectives: http://rcoer.col.org/about.html
• draft agenda attached

(5) Government Survey

• Ministries of Education have received an online OER survey (see attached for the offline version).
  

I hope many of you will be able to participate in the regional consultations, and I look forward to seeing you at the 2nd World OER Congress!

Warmest regards,

Cable