Open and free education: an interdisciplinary field of action serving the scientific, social and pedagogical perspectives of French-speaking higher education? ; L’éducation ouverte et libre : un champ d’action interdisciplinaire au service des perspectives scientifiques, sociales et pédagogiques de l’enseignement supérieur francophone ?

International audience ; (Re)Impelled by Unesco since 2016, the notion of open education (OE) aims at "sustainable development goals" (SDGs) and thus "ensuring equitable, inclusive and quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for all". It is now being deployed on an international scale via multiple initiatives within French-speaking higher education establishments, notably at the political, organizational, inter-individual relations and even academic professions' usage levels.However, research into its effects in French-speaking higher education is still in its infancy, and the feedback from experience is currently fragmented and empirical. It was against this backdrop that Nantes Université, in cooperation with Chaire Unesco Open education resources and artificial intelligence (OER-AI), brought together some twenty international researchers and professionals to explore the possibilities from a scientific point of view. These two days of contributions gave rise to the creation of an interdisciplinary symposium comprising five papers that humbly initiated the conceptualization of OE according to three approaches: sociotechnical(Albero, 2010), mesological (Cristol, 2022) and political (Lascoumes & Le Galès, 2005). Each of them questions and explains in context how OE is already contributing to new forms of interaction between stakeholders and to the multidimensional transformation of the frenchspeaking higher education establishments that are strategically anchored in it. ; (ré)Impulsée par l’Unesco depuis 2016, l’éducation ouverte (ÉO) vise des objectifs de développement durable (ODD), et ainsi, tend à assurer à tous et à toutes une éducation équitable, inclusive et de qualité, des possibilités d’apprentissage tout au long de la vie. Elle se déploie désormais à l’échelle internationale via de multiples initiatives au sein des établissements d’enseignement supérieurs francophones, notamment au niveau politique, organisationnel, des relations interindividuelles voire des usages par les professions ...