Thai Open Educational Resources (OER)

Details of the organization
National Science and Technology Development Agency
Thailand
https://www.nstda.or.th/en/
Governments
  • The organization has a strategy for coordinating WSIS Implementation at the national level: Yes
  • The organization has a national e-strategy: Yes

Information about the project
Thai Open Educational Resources (OER)
Thai Open Educational Resources (OER) is a project under the Online Learning Resources for Distance Learning in the Celebration of Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn’s 60th Birthday Anniversary. It is an ongoing project and has been evolving since 2015. Thai OER aims to provide high quality teaching and learning resources to students, teachers, educators and learners anywhere and at any time, free of charge. The resources include different types of educational materials and cover a range of topics in different fields ranging from science and technology to Thai folk wisdom and traditional arts and culture. These resources are produced and shared in the OER system by different organizations in Thailand under open license. - It supports lifelong learning of the Thai people by providing high quality educational resources which include more than 70,000 records of educational materials that are free of charge and access barriers. The number of users and downloads from Thai OER is continuously increasing to approximately 2,400,000 users and 3,800,000 downloads, at present. - It encourages knowledge production and knowledge sharing in Thai society. Today there are, in both the public and private sectors, more than 88 organizations and more than 1,700 individuals from different fields participating in Thai OER by producing and sharing their quality educational resources. - It concretely promotes academic morality and ethics through open license and open technology platform.
https://oer.learn.in.th
National implementation: Thailand
Ongoing from 15/03/2015 to 31/12/2018
At the beginning of the Thai OER project, NSTDA worked with various government and non-government agencies to develop the project’s detail concept, for example the Information Technology Foundation under the Initiative of Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn; the Ministry of Science and Technology; the Ministry of Education; the Plant Genetic Conservation Project under the Royal Initiative of Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn; and the Office of the Permanent Secretary, the Prime Minister’s Office.

WSIS information
      * E-learning
  • Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
  • Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
  • Goal 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies
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