A Study: Importance of Open Educational Resources (OER) for Teaching and Learning Process

Abstract

OERs are any form of teaching-learning materials with an open license and are freely available in the public domain. Generally, OERs refer to online materials that can be adapted, reused, shared and even used for commercial purpose. Thus, OERs are reusable teaching-learning materials. OERs can be as short as small text, pdf files. audio, video, image file, graphics, animations etc., as well as big files like textbooks or whole courses. The OERs that are arranged in a logical and sequential manner to accomplish particular objectives are called “learning objects”. And, OERs developed as a whole course are called as massive open online course (MOOC). Open educational resources (OER) cover a wide range of online formats, including online textbooks, video recorded lectures, You Tube clips, web-based textual materials designed for independent study, animations and simulations, diagrams and graphics, some MOOCs, or even assessment materials such as tests with automated answers. OER can also include power point slides or pdf files of lecture notes. In order to be open educational resources, though, they must be freely available for at least educational use.

Keywords-  Oer, Mooc, Swayam.