Research Regarding the Access to Open Educational Resources in the Informational Society

The increasing involvement of different categories of people in education surpasses the traditional boundaries whereas the contents and the electronic instruments used to create, share and develop the information are more and more widespread and accepted. These realities provide opportunities for the development and spreading of a wide range of open educational resources, which implies significant challenges for the concept of intellectual property. As a consequence, increased online access to such resources generates individual study which, correlated with the development of the social networks and collaborative learning creates opportunities for pedagogical innovation. The present paper aims at offering an introduction into the vast domain of open educational resources which becomes more and more accepted and used both at the individual level and especially at the level of some prestigious international institutions like UNESCO.