Motivation behind the OER movement

The motivation behind open education has three essential pillars:

• It is inherited from the open-source philosophy. Read it HERE.
• It goes hand-in-hand with the open access debate.
  The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation states:“At the heart of the movement toward Open Educational Resources is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that technology in general and the Worldwide Web in particular provides an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse knowledge”. (IJEDICT, 2009)
• It is inspired by innovative teaching and learning pedagogies. Read it HERE.