2. WARM-UP ACTIVITY
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Suggest any three kinds of Educational
Resources that Improve the educational
processes and facilitate learning.
(To respond to this activity please go to the menti.com and use code 16397340)
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3. OUTCOMES
At the end of this
Session, you are
expected to be able
to:
1 define OER concept,
give an overview of international development
related to the OER movement,
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2
identify OER.
4. OUTLINE OF THE
FIRST SESSION
1 Open Education
2 Definitions of OER
3
Need for OER
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Benefits of OER
5
Development of the open movement
6 Merits and challenges of using OER
5. OPEN EDUCATION
Opening up and sharing
knowledge is necessary if
we are going to solve the
world’s most pressing
challenges!
https://vimeo.com/434
01199 Open Courseware
(OCW)
Open Educational
Resources
(OER)
Open Access
(OA)
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6. WHAT IS OER?
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Open Educational Resources
(OER) are teaching, learning,
and research materials that
are either (a) in the public
domain or (b) licensed in a
manner that provides
everyone with free and
perpetual permission to
engage in the 5R activities.
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7. OER DEFINITIONS
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"At Hewlett, we use the term “open education”
to encompass the myriad of learning
resources, teaching practices and education
policies that use the flexibility of OER to
provide learners with high quality educational
experiences. Creative Commons defines OER
as teaching, learning, and research materials
that are either (a) in the public domain or (b)
licensed in a manner that provides everyone
with free and perpetual permission to engage
in the 5R activities– retaining, remixing,
revising, reusing and redistributing the
resources."
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
8. OER DEFINITIONS
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"digitized materials offered freely and openly
for educators, students, and self-learners to use
and reuse for teaching, learning, and research.
OER includes learning content, software tools
to develop, use, and distribute content, and
implementation resources such as open
licences."
OECD (Organization for Economic Co-
operation and Development)
9. OER DEFINITIONS
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"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."
UNESCO
10. OER DEFINITIONS
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"[O]pen educational resources should be freely
shared through open licences which facilitate
use, revision, translation, improvement and
sharing by anyone. Resources should be
published in formats that facilitate both use
and editing and that accommodate a diversity
of technical platforms. Whenever possible, they
should also be available in formats that are
accessible to people with disabilities and
people who do not yet have access to the
Internet."
The Cape Town Open Education Declaration
11. OER DEFINITIONS
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"Open Educational Resources are teaching and
learning materials that you may freely use and
reuse, without charge. OER often have a
Creative Commons or GNU license that state
specifically how the material may be used,
reused, adapted, and shared."
OER Commons
12. OER DEFINITIONS
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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.
Recommendation on Open Educational
Resources (OER) 2019
13. KEY FEATURES
OF OER
OPENCOPYRIGHT
LICENSE
REQUIRED
RIGHT OF ACCESS,
ADAPTATION,
AND
REPUBLICATION
NON-
DISCRIMINATORY
(RIGHTS GIVENTO
EVERYONE,
EVERYWHERE)
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14. LET'S CHECK YOUR LEARNING
1. What does OER stand for?
a. Open Education Resources
b. Open Educational Resources
c. Open Education references
d. Open Educational Resourcing
2. OER is the sub-set of the term:
a. Open Education
b. Open courseware
c. Open Access
d. Open Software
3. The term “Free” means the same as “Open”
a. True
b. False
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15. DEVELOPMENT OF THE OPEN
MOVEMENT
15
1999 2001 2002 2008 2010
The University of
Turbingen
(Germany) and the
Open University
(UK) released
some educational
resources for free.
The
Massachusetts
Institute of
Technology (MIT)
(USA) takes an
OER initiatives
MIT released 32
courses with
open license
The Cape
Town Open
Education
Declaration
Stanford
University offers
first MOOC
2012 2019
The 2012 OER
Paris
Declaration
Recommendat
ion on Open
Educational
Resources
(OER) 2019
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2017
Year of Open
Education
16. NEED FOR OER
1. Low availability of good-quality educational materials.
2. The cost of access in many locations is very high and
increases each year.
3. Lack of inclusive and equitable quality education
4. Lifelong learning is an essential part of 21st century
world
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17. BENEFITS OF OPEN EDUCATION AND OER
• Achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4), which calls for the international community to ensure
inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
• Meet the needs of individual learners, effectively promote gender equality, and incentivize innovative
pedagogical approaches.
• Provide a self-paced learning facility for students
• Is accessible and affordable for all
• Provide access to huge amounts of learning resources
• Gives flexibility and greater autonomy
• Available any time any ware for everyone, including individuals with disabilities and individuals coming from
marginalized or disadvantaged groups.
• Offer reusability of intellectual capital
• Support self-learning and collaboration
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18. IMPORTANCE OF
OER
• Equal access to our collective knowledge
• OER has the potential to jump-start careers and economic development in
communities that lag behind.
• OER is going to democratize learning and transform the classroom and teaching
• Promoting lifelong learning
• Bridging the gap between formal-informal and non-formal
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19. LET'S CHECK YOUR LEARNING
1. Some OER Encourage “Repurposing” which means:
a. You can adopt the resource for a new context
b. You must preserve the resource as it is
c. You must preserve the purpose of the resource
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20. CHALLENGES OF
USING OERS
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Sourcing of appropriateOpen Educational Resources
Understanding open licences
Requirement of new skills
Predominance of the traditional mindset
Robust internet connectivity andGood ICT availability
Incentivisation of lesson creation
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21. KEY
TAKEAWAYS
✓ OER are digital as well as non-digital educational material
✓ OER are a subset of Open Education, Open Accesses (OA)
Journals, and Open CourseWare (OCW)
✓ Open Education provides access to quality teaching-learning
material (TLM)
✓ Open Educational Resources (OER) and the open movement
have recently evolved after 2000
✓ Challenges:
• Lack of access to digital devices and the internet
• Lack of digital skills to find appropriate open educational
material over the internet
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22. “BE OPEN, SHARE YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND RESOURCES
WITH OTHERS FOR A BETTER WORLD”
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