During the recent HOME conference in Porto, participants discussed and agreed the text of a declaration about MOOCs and the opportunities they present in Europe. This Porto Declaration on MOOCs highlights the opportunities that MOOCs offer for scaling up Higher education to reach wider audiences in Europe and which offer the kind of flexible, creative and modern approach to learning that today’s complex world requires. It calls for more openness: open access, open licensing policy, and open pedagogy and urged governments and institutions within Europe to support and actively implement the Paris OER Declaration of UNESCO (2012). It also stated that a cohesive and collaborative pan-European response is the only way to achieve these aims. Read the full declaration here.
