Name: French Ministerial Strategy for OER and Open Education in Higher Education: National Recommendations and Actions Plan
Start: 2026-10-09T14:15:00-0400
End: 2026-10-09T14:45:00-0400

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French Ministerial Strategy for OER and Open Education in Higher Education: National Recommendations and Actions Plan

Friday October 9, 2026 2:15pm - 2:45pm EDT

4 Room T

ID: 33871

The French ministerial roadmap 2023-2027 for digital technology in higher education sets out 26 measures aimed at strengthening five principles: sovereignty, security, digital responsibility, open data, and the use of cloud computing. Among these, measures 9 and 10 focus on promoting open educational resources (OER) and developing a national strategy for open education. These actions are coordinated within the framework of the Digital Committee for Student Success and Institutional Agility (COREALE), whose role is to steer digital transformation and promote student success. This presentation addresses the foundations, operating methods, stakeholders, recommendations and actions plan from measures 9 and 10, which build a national framework for French universities and higher schools from public sector. Those two measures aim to achieve the following two objectives: “Improving the visibility and interoperability of educational resources by promoting open educational resources” (measure 9) and “Developing a national strategy for Open Education” (measure 10). As with the ministerial digital strategy’s other measures, the approach is bottom-up in order to define deliverables based on a broad consensus, designed and validated in collaboration with stakeholders and experts in the field of documentation and of pedagogical and digital engineering. The first national deliverable of measure 9 (Massou & Boulet, 2025) proposes 12 recommendations based on training needs for academic staffs and students, considering pedagogical collaborations and technical environments to cover the complete life cycle of OER (5R). It clarifies which open licenses, metadata and permanent identifiers are relevant for OER to improve their openness, interoperability and visibility in other resources’ catalogs. It insists also on accessibility and multilingual issues. This deliverable was expanded to include an action plan in 2026 with two methodological guides (on legal and documentation matters) and a digital platform to facilitate indexing of OER (using standards of metadata). The second national deliverable of measure 10 will consist on recommendations to build a national strategy on open education in higher education, similar to the national plans for open science launched by our ministry in 2018 and 2021. The following topics will be addressed in a broader and ecosystem-based approach of open education: Awareness-raising, communication, and promotion; Regulation, funding, and business models; National and international partnerships; Professional development for teachers and support staff; Accreditation and recognition of open learning; Research and evaluation; Governance and management support. The action plan that will follow this deliverable will involve the practical implementation of this national strategy starting in 2027 across the entire French higher education system.

Speakers

Luc Massou

Scientific advisor, Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Space (France)

Luc Massou is full professor of Information and Communication Sciences at University of Lorraine (France) and serves as a scientific advisor to the General Direction for Higher Education and Professional Integration (DGESIP) at the Ministry of Higher Education, Research, and Space... Read More →

Céline Joiron

Vice-President, University of Picardie Jules Verne (France)

Céline is Vice-President of the Association of Digital Vice-Presidents for Higher Education and Research (VP-Num) in France and she is also the Executive Vice-President for Digital Strategy and Artificial Intelligence at University of Picardie Jules Verne. She is an associate professor... Read More →

Friday October 9, 2026 2:15pm - 2:45pm EDT
4 Room T MIT Samberg Conference Center, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge MA 02139 USA

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