Latifa Chahbi, Loubna Terhaz, Khalid Berrada and Alan Levine (Morocco, USA) have created a new ad hoc team to tackle the issue of judgement. The analysis then shifts to North Africa, where OER have long been championed, and the global vision provided by Alan Levine. References abound, and experiences are used to show that this…

Must one be naive to share? That is the initial question that motivates the contribution of Dorothy Laubscher, from North-West University in South Africa. Her field experience in South Africa is put to good use: it is far away… and yet universal. And also, a beautiful enthusiasm that brings hope.

This is a complicated subject in some countries. Is there, in certain forms of sharing, a more or less well-disguised colonialism? It is with great pleasure that we welcome Mpine Makoe (University of South Africa), Darrion Letendre and Robert Lawson (NorQuest College, Edmonton, Canada) to try to answer this delicate question.

Two articles chose the unhealthy relationship between Gollum, Tolkien’s fictional character, and his ring to illustrate the difficulty of sharing. Pierre Antoine Gourraud (Nantes Université, France) shares out of conviction. He is aware that science is built on people borrowing from each other and that participating in this science means plundering and being plundered.

Mitja Jermol (Slovenia) and Fawzi Baroud (Lebanon) tackle a recent obstacle: do the successes of generative AI make OER obsolete? Starting from two very different perspectives, they come to similar and unexpected conclusions: producing open educational resources has never been more important!

Javiera Atenas and Leo Havemann (University of Suffolk and University College London, United Kingdom) note that while teacher-researchers readily agree to share the results of their research, the same is much less true when it comes to educational outcomes. Why does this difference exist? In their analysis, they also propose solutions.

Am I legitimate in sharing? This question, which we all ask ourselves, is the starting point for the article by Marcela Morales (Mexico), co-executive director of Open Education Global. Her analysis and answer should reassure us…

Sharing, education… Two very powerful words that naturally go hand in hand. What could be more fitting than asking a poet, an activist, a great educator to introduce us to the debates of this Open Education Week? Ahmed Galai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2015, does us the great honor of launching our series of…

Every year in early March, open education is celebrated during OEWeek (Open Education Week), promoted by Open Education Global. This year, sharing is our common thread. We have identified 16 obstacles or challenges to sharing: some are real and may be related to a lack of technological or legal knowledge. Others are related to our…