This document discusses open educational resources (OER). It defines OER as teaching, learning and research materials that are freely accessible and openly licensed. OER can take various forms, including lesson plans, videos, textbooks and journals. The document outlines several benefits of OER such as expanded access to learning materials and cost savings for students. It also notes some potential difficulties with OER like quality concerns and technology issues. Examples of OER repositories and Indian OER initiatives are provided.

1. NAME – Arundathi KL
APPLICATION NUMBER -
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AFFILIATION – Acharya Institute of Technology
OER-
Open Education resources
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2. OER
What ?
 Publicly accessible materials and resources for any user to use, re-
mix, improve and redistribute under some licenses.
 Open educational resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly
licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for
teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes.
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3. OER
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4. OER
 “Teaching, learning and research materials in any medium, digital or
otherwise, that reside in the public domain or have been released under
an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and
redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions. Open
licensing is built within the existing framework of intellectual property
rights as defined by relevant international conventions and respects the
authorship of the work”.
Participants:
 Students
 Teachers
 Researcher
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5. OER - different forms
 to educational resources (lesson plans, quizzes, syllabi, instructional modules,
simulations, etc.) that are freely available for use, reuse, adaptation, and sharing.
 Ex: Learning Objects
 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
 Images (www.flickr.com)
 Video (www.academicearth.com, YouTube)
 Audio (http://itunes.stanford.edu)
 Open Textbooks (www.wikibooks.org)
 Journals (www.doaj.org)
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6. OER - repositories
 Google scholar- source for scholarly article, free to use.
 Google classroom
 Creative commons
 OER Commons
 Wikipedia
 Moodle
 SlideShare
 Edx
 Swayam
 Others: Coursera, Blackboard
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7. OER – Indian initiatives
National Coordinators for MOOC
 AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) for self-paced and international courses
 NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning) for Engineering
 UGC (University Grants Commission) for nontechnical post-graduation education
 CEC (Consortium for Educational Communication) for under-graduate education
 NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training) for school education
 NIOS (National Institute of Open Schooling) for school education
 IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University) for out-of-school students
 IIMB (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore) for management studies
 NITTTR (National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research) for Teacher Training
programme
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8. OER - benefits
 Expanded access to learning – can be accessed anywhere at
anytime
 Ability to modify course materials – can be narrowed down to
topics that are relevant to course
 Enhancement of course material – texts, images and videos can
be used to support different learning styles
 Rapid dissemination of information – textbooks can be put
forward quicker online than publishing a textbook
 Cost saving for students – all readings are available online,
which saves students hundreds of dollar
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9. OER - difficulties
 Quality/reliability concerns – some online material can be edited by anyone
at anytime, which results in irrelevant or inaccurate information
 Limitation of copyright property protection – OER licenses change "All
rights reserved." into "Some rights reserved.", so that content creators must be
careful about what materials they make available
 Technology issues – some students may have difficulty accessing online
resources because of slow internet connection, or may not have access to the
software required to use the material
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10. Acknowledgement
 Course name: Academic Writing
 Course code: ugc19_ge03
 It is a great platform to learn many good technical aspects of AW.
 Gained many things through AW course and will be a milestone
in my career.
 It’s a great learning and Thank You AW team
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11. Sources:
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources
 Academic writing
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