Promoting Use and Contribution of Open Educational Resources

TARGET GROUP: TEACHERS

OBJECTIVES

·        To establish teachers perspectives on OER use in order to determine the uptake of OER in India by identifying the barriers to the creation for the use of OER in India.

SUMMARY

Open educational resources (OER) have emerged as one of the most innovative teaching and learning practices as well as cost-effective mechanisms to improve the quality of educational offerings by optimising the use of available resources. While OER can be used by any institution, universities depending upon packaged learning materials can use OER to improve their cost-efficiency. OER have the potential to transform teaching and learning practices in all educational settings. They can be used to reduce the time to develop courses and programmes, facilitate knowledge sharing, preserve and disseminate indigenous knowledge, and improve educational quality at all levels.

For teachers and students, OER

(i)               provide access to global content that can be localised without restrictions,

(ii)              give them more choices about learning resources and

(iii)            create inclusive learning communities

REFERENCE

http://oasis.col.org/bitstream/handle/11599/2659/2017_Mishra_Promoting-Use-Contribution-of-OER.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y