The second guideline refers to the use of both, open educational resources (OER) to support learning (e.g. Campbell and Shin, 2014) and also open exchange of teaching practices with the aim of improving education and training (BCcampus, 2021).
Open educational resources are defined as “teaching, learning and research resources that, through permissions granted by their creator, allow others to use, distribute, keep or make changes in it” (BCcampus, 2021). Minerva project wants to take advantage of the multiple possibilities offered by the Internet to obtain free-access teaching materials adapted to the most diverse uses.
Collaborative platforms (such as Miro, Draw Chats, or others) are an excellent tool to engage students in learning, collaboration, and critical thinking. It encourages collaboration and creative expression, and it enables allocating assignments and providing feedback. The result can be an expression of collective intelligence, when “a group of average people can –under certain conditions– achieve better results than any individual” (Leimeister, 2010:245). Shared work or cloud labor that has been facilitated by the Web 2.0 promotes the expression of collective intelligence. This can be used for problem solving and joint creation. It can be considered the ultimate goal of any active learning activity aiming at community building and/or knowledge building.
The use of open source software and the use of Open Data available on the Internet so that anyone can download, modify and distribute it allows us to take advantage of a large amount of information that the society began to produce in the 21st century.