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The Minister of Education and Training issued Circular No. 61/2026/TT-BGDDT regulating the exploitation and use of open educational resources in higher education activities. Download Create a legal corridor to promote the development of digital higher education, expand access to knowledge, increase the sharing of learning materials. The Circular for the first time uniformly regulates the exploitation and use of open educational resources in higher education activities, creating a legal corridor to promote the development of digital higher education, expand access to knowledge, increase the sharing of learning materials and form a network connecting open educational resources between training institutions nationwide. The Circular is published in the Circular. promulgated to specify the provisions of the Law on Higher Education 2025 and related legal regulations, while meeting the requirements of digital transformation in higher education, contributing to improving training quality, promoting innovation and building a learning society. The Circular takes effect from September 1, 2026. The Circular emphasizes promoting the fundamental and core role of open educational resources in implementing digital higher education, promoting the development of science, technology, innovation and digital transformation; At the same time, it ensures connection and sharing of data and learning materials between training institutions and relevant parties. The Circular also fully regulates the concepts of open educational resources, open licenses, open access rights, open education platforms and the National Open Education Resources Access Portal, creating a basis for connecting, sharing and effectively exploiting legal domestic and international learning resources for training, research and lifelong learning. A notable point is that learning materials, Textbooks, lectures, online courses and academic products created entirely or mainly from state budget sources are given priority for publication under open licenses, unless otherwise prescribed by law or within the scope of publication restrictions. This regulation contributes to expanding access and effective exploitation of learning materials created entirely or mainly from the state budget according to the provisions of law. Open for sharing but must ensure quality, copyright and academic integrity. The Circular stipulates that open educational resources put into use must ensure quality, be attached with an appropriate open license and meet the requirements for integration and sharing in the digital environment. Training institutions are responsible for building quality control mechanisms, appraising, updating and receiving feedback from users to ensure the quality of learning materials. At the same time, the Circular clearly stipulates the rights and responsibilities of organizations and individuals in exploiting and using open educational resources. Users have the right to access, exploit, use, modify, combine and share resources under the terms of the open license; At the same time, must comply with the provisions of law on copyright, intellectual property, source citation, personal data protection, cybersecurity, national security, national defense, academic integrity and relevant legal regulations. For resources that use content created by artificial intelligence (AI), the Circular requires ensuring transparency in accordance with current laws. Form a shared learning materials ecosystem, promoting knowledge sharing throughout the systemA One of the important goals of the Circular is to promote the formation of a network of connection, connection and sharing of open educational resources in higher education. Accordingly, training institutions can use open educational resources as official learning materials, reference learning materials or supplementary learning materials in the training program; used for online courses, scientific research activities, recognition of learning results, credit conversion, and issuance of certificates and diplomas according to current regulations. The Circular requires training institutions to build and develop their open educational resources platform, ensuring the ability to connect to the National Open Educational Resources Access Portal; At the same time, promulgate a mechanism to encourage and recognize organizations and individuals participating in the development of open educational resources and consider recognizing open educational resources as academic products according to the regulations of each training institution. The promulgation of Circular No. 61/2026/TT-BGDDT contributes to perfecting the legal corridor on exploitation and use of open educational resources, promoting the role of open educational resources in implementing digital higher education, improving the quality of training. 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