SHMS is a National program that aims in enriching the educational content to support education. This program seeks to find a sustainable path to partnership in design, improvement, maintenance, and enhancing the quality of the digital educational content and it will contribute in providing more educational opportunities for those who speak the Arabic language. This would be achieved through partnerships with leading international and Arabic institutions for building digital repository, and localizations of the OER and building high-quality Arabic educational content. In addition, it will be opening the way for academics and students in Saudi Arabia to enrich the content through well-defined process to ensure quality.

The objectives of the program are:

• Contributing to the quality of lifelong education.
• Enhancing the quality and accessibility of teaching and learning resources.
• Coordinating in developing creative digital content services and educational practices within the pedagogical framework.
  • Strengthen the coordination in design, development and quality assurance of OER.
• Establish the best open educational practices, products, and outstanding processes through self-evaluation and peer review.
• Encourage researchers and developers to conduct studies and propose guidelines and solutions to enhance the OER system.