Since 2018, when it was created, the Open Education Policy Game has been a major social technology supporting collaborative analysis and implementation of open educational policies in institutions committed to the democratization of knowledge. Now with the support of the UNESCO Chair in Distance Education it is relaunched in 2024 in an updated version, providing a more comprehensive perspective in line with the UNESCO 2019 OER Recommendation, as well as a greater focus on open practices, collaboration, sustainability, shared governance, digital public goods and digital rights.

Developed by the Open Education Initiative, a research group at the University of Brasilia (UnB), the Game is a pioneering social technology, and was built with the collaboration of administrators, educators and technicians from public and private education throughout Brazil. The first version, already available in three languages (Portuguese, English and Spanish), was played in different education contexts in Brazil and in various countries including Argentina, Peru, Cuba, the United States, Serbia, Slovenia, Namibia and Tanzania; it has been well reviewed and has had very positive results providing an mechanism to grasp and grapple with basic concepts and the importance of participatory management in open policy-making. It was also adopted as a main resource for the ‘Open Education Leaders’ course supported by UNESCO Brazil in 2020-2021, which had 200 education professionals from different regions of the country as participants.