OER learning material for students

Presented by- Sunil Saini
Librarian, KVS ZIET Chandigarh

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Some Questions about OER

 What are the Open Educational Resources?
 Is OER is same as e-learning?
 Is OER is same as Open learning/ Open Education?
 What is open licence of OER?
 Who will guarantee the quality of OER?
 How can education benefit by harnessing OER?
 What are the best way to build capacity of OER?
 What are the benefits of OER in education system?

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What is Open Educational Resources (OER)

Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type
of educational materials that are in the public
domain or introduced with an open license. The
nature of these open materials means that anyone
can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share
them.

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OCW- Open Course Ware

 It is a free and open digital publication of
high quality university‐level educational
materials.

 These materials are organized as courses, and
often include course planning materials and
evaluation tools as well as thematic content.

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Is OER the same as e-learning ?

 OER is not synonymous with online learning or e-
learning.

 A lot of e-learning courses may harness OER, but this
does not mean that OER are necessarily e-learning.

 OER is not a resource based learning.

 Resource-based learning provides a basis for
transforming the culture of teaching across all
educational systems to enable those systems to offer
better quality education to significantly larger numbers
of students.

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Is OER the same as open learning/open education?

 Although use of OER can support open
learning/open education, the two are not the
same.

 Open educataion requires systematic analysis of
assessment and accreditation systems, student
support, curriculum frameworks, mechanisms to
recognize prior learning.

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What is Open Licence for OER?

 openly licensed content belongs in the public domain
does not mean that author gives up all of their rights to
this material.

 There is a legal framework to govern how OER are
licensed for use. Like Creative Commons .

 Creative Commons (CC) provide legal mechanisms to
ensure that authors of materials can retain
acknowledgement for their work while allowing it to
be shared.

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 Can seek to restrict commercial activity.
 Can aim to prevent people from adapting it if

appropriate.

 Within this framework, the CC licences allow authors,
in a user-friendly way, to grant other people the right
to make copies of their work and, if they wish, to
allow other people to make changes to their work
without seeking permission.

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Who will guarantee the quality of OER?

 One or more dedicated agencies should take full
responsibility for assuring that OER shared in
repositories online are of a high quality.

 Responsibility for assuring the quality of OER used in
teaching and learning environments will reside with
the institution,.

 Programme/Course coordinators
 Individual educators responsible for delivery of

education.

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How can education benefit by harnessing OER?

 OER have tremendous potential to contribute to
improving the quality and effectiveness of education.

 As the ICT infrastructure in growing in educational
institutions.

 It is becoming increasingly important for them to
support in a planned and deliberate manner for
development and improvement of curricula, ongoing
programme and course design.

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Important OER for Schools

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 Students can learn best by doing and creating, not by
passively reading and absorbing.

 OER gives the opportunities to the students through
re-use and adaptation of that content can make a
significant contribution to creating more effective
learning environments.

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 OER is a key to productive systems is to build on
common intellectual capital, rather than duplicating
similar efforts.

 OER has potential to build capacity by providing
institutions and educators access, at low or no cost

 All things being equal, collaboration will improve
quality.

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Benefits of OER

 It allow more personalised learning, better learning
experience.

 An improved use of resources

 It promote equity by increasing the availability of
knowledge because individuals may learn anytime,
anywhere, with the support of anyone, using any
device.

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Benefits of OER

 By using OER, students are exposed to different
educational resources that are in accordance with
their learning style.

 They can learn how to release their work under an
open license and to improve quality of teaching
practice and encourage pedagogical innovation

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Benefits of OER

 Teachers can compare their own teaching materials
with other teachers all around the world.

 Learners can become more active participants in
educational process through a collaboration in virtual
communities of learning.

 Finally OER can reduce the cost of accessing
educational materials.

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What are the best ways to build capacity in OER?

The skills required for institutions to harness OER
effectively .
 Expertise in advocacy and promotion of OER for

improving the quality of learning and teaching in
education.
 Programme, course and materials design and
development expertise.
 Technical expertise.
 Monitoring and evaluation expertise

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 Expertise in curetting and sharing OER effectively.

 Communication and research skills to be able to
share information about OER.

 Raising awareness of the potential of OER and the
requirements for successful use.

 Identifying best-practice examples of use of OER.

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OER Adoption Pyramid model

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References

 HTTPS://LIBRARY.EDUCAUSE.EDU/RESOURCES/2018/6/7-THINGS-YOU-SHOULD-
KNOW-ABOUT-OPEN-EDUCATION-CONTENT

 OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES: A GUIDE TO FINDING AND USERS OERS IN
THE CLASSROOM. (N.D.). IN GOUCHER COLLEGE LIBRARY. RETRIEVED
FROM HTTPS://LIBRARYGUIDES.GOUCHER.EDU/C.PHP?G=242548&P=1612887

 SCHULTE, L. (2018, MAY 22). THE PROS AND CONS OF OER. DIRECT
NETWORK. RETRIEVED FROM HTTPS://DIRECTNETWORK.MBSDIRECT.NET/THE-
PROS-AND-CONS-OF-OER

 SOOTS, B. (2014). EVALUATING OER QUALITY AND STANDARDS ALIGNMENT:
IT MAY BE FREE, BUT IS IT ANY GOOD? EDWEB.NET. RETRIEVED
FROM HTTPS://MEDIA.EDWEB.NET/EDWEBINAR/?VIEW=20150602EDWEBNET22

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