CERI - Recent publications

Teaching, Learning and Assessment for Adults: Improving Foundation Skills

This book provides a strong foundation for understanding the fundamental issues at stake in the sector of adult learners with low skills in language, literacy and numeracy.

Exemplary case studies, international literature reviews and country reports are downloadable for free on the Internet.

Cross-border Tertiary Education: A Way towards Capacity Development

This book discusses the concept of capacity-building for tertiary education through cross-border education, emphasising the critical role of quality assurance and trade negotiations.

Understanding the Brain: The Birth of a Learning Science

This book provides new insights about learning, synthesing existing and emerging findings from cognitive and brain science.

Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources

The rapidly changing phenomenon of Open Educational Resources and the challenges it poses for higher education.

Evidence in Education: Linking Research and Policy

The publication looks at the issues facing educational policy makers, researchers, and stakeholders – teachers, media, parents – in using evidence to best effect.

Understanding the Social Outcomes of Learning

Education is vital for economic success, both at the national and the individual level. But education also has significant social effects. This report is OECD’s first attempt to gather and synthesise developments in measuring these social effects.