open educational resources

1. OPEN EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCE MEANING
Submitted by :Jishnu Ratheesan Submitted to ;Anuja teacher
Physical science ,1st
Sem
KUCTE ANCHAL WEST
B .Ed College

2. INTRODUCTION
Open educational resources means teaching, learning, and research materials intentionally
created and licensed to be free for the end user to own, share, and in most cases, modify .The
term "OER" describes publicly accessible materials and resources for any user to use, re-mix,
improve, and redistribute under some licenses .These are designed to reduce accessibility
barriers by implementing best practices in teaching and to be adapted for local unique
contexts. The development and promotion of open educational resources is often motivated
by a desire to provide an alternative or enhanced educational system.
While collaboration, sharing, and openness have been an
on-going feature of educational" and research practices "past and present" the term "OER"
was first coined to describe associated resources at UNESCO's 2002 Forum on Open Course
ware which determined that "Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning, teaching and
research materials in any format and medium that reside in the public domain or are under
copyright that have been released under an open license, that permit no-cost access, re-use,
re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution by others."

3. MEANING OF OPEN
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE
Open educational resources (OER) are part of a range of processes employed by researchers
and educators to broaden access to scholarly and creative conversations. Although working
definitions of the term OER may vary somewhat based on the context of their use, the 2019
definition provided by UNESCO provides shared language useful for shaping an
understanding of the characteristics of OER. The 2019 UNESCO definition describes OER as
"teaching, learning and research materials that make use of appropriate tools, such as open
licensing, to permit their free reuse, continuous improvement and repurposing by others for
educational purposes.
While collaboration, sharing, and openness have "been an on -
going feature of educational" and research practices "past and present" the term "OER" was
first coined to describe associated resources at UNESCO's 2002 Forum on Open Courseware
,which determined that "Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning, teaching and
research materials in any format and medium that reside in the public domain or are under
copyright that have been released under an open license, that permit no-cost access, re-use,
re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution by others.
These definitions also have common elements, namely they all:
#cover use and reuse, repurposing, and modification of the resources;
#include free use for educational purposes by teachers and learners
#encompass all types of digital media.[28]

4. TOPIC ELABORATED
Given the diversity of users, creators and sponsors of open educational resources,
it is not surprising to find a variety of use cases and requirements. For this reason, it may be
as helpful to consider the differences between descriptions of open educational resources as it
is to consider the descriptions themselves. One of several tensions in reaching a consensus
description of OER (as found in the above definitions) is whether there should be explicit
emphasis placed on specific technologies. For example, a video can be openly licensed and
freely used without being a streaming video. A book can be openly licensed and freely used
without being an electronic document. This technologically driven tension is deeply bound up
with the discourse of open-source licensing. For more, see Licensing and Types of OER later
in this article.
There is also a tension between entities which find value in quantifying usage of OER and
those which see such metrics as themselves being irrelevant to free and open resources.
Those threatened by OER, or those requiring justification for the costs of implementing and
maintaining the infrastructure or access to the freely available OER. While a semantic
distinction can be made delineating the technologies used to access and host learning content
from the content itself, these technologies are generally accepted as part of the collective of
open educational resources. Since OER are intended to be available for a variety of
educational purposes, some organizations using OER neither award degrees nor provide
academic or administrative support to students seeking college credits towards a diploma
from a degree granting accredited institution. However, many degree granting institutions
have intentionally embraced the use of OER for research, teaching and learning, seeing their
use and creation as in aligning with academic or institutional mission statements ..In open
education, there is an emerging effort by some accredited institutions to offer free
certifications, or achievement badges, to document and acknowledge the accomplishments of
participants.

5. CONCLUSION
From the above topic we can reach a conclusion that open educational resources are the
materials which are intentionally created and spread with the idea of creating or building the
aspect of knowledge about a particular topic .Another speciality of open educational resource
is that it is freely accessible in all manner. The motive behind open educational resources is
to create a good parallel education system. It reduces various barriers of accessibility to a
particular educational resource .So ,we can hereby understand the relevance of open
educational resource in data collection and its analysing.
REFERENCE
# Wikipedia
#Educational technology –By Agarval