Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning materials such as courses, textbooks, media, and tools that are open licensed and freely available. As traditional education faces challenges in providing high quality education while keeping costs low, OER offer a solution by enabling universal access to knowledge through open licensing. OER allow instructors and learners to use educational content freely in any way and on any device. This can help achieve high quality universal education through open and technology-enabled learning resources.

1. Need for
Open Educational Resources (OER)
Presentation: Matus & Lavanya Concept: Lionel Paul

4. Providing high quality education to the
learners while containing the costs is a
common challenge that educators face
globally.

6. Current information technology development
has highlighted the deficiencies and challenges
in the traditional education system.

9. Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning
materials such as structured courses, course reference
materials, books, assessments, audio, video, software,
tools, technology, techniques and other related
materials that enable knowledge acquisition. They
include intellectual property licenses that govern open
publishing of materials, design-principles, and
localization of content.

12. Open license can raise
the education standards globally.

13. The open license enables the instructors
and learners to use the content anywhere,
anytime and in anyway they deem fit.

14. • Users don’t have to be concerned about how
long the OER can be used.
• There are a wide variety of devices both
mobile and static where OER can be used
effectively.
• High quality education to all can be achieved
by open content and technology
intergradation.

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17. References
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