NATIONAL SEMINAR

AT AGGARWAL
COLLEGE

AJIT SINGH
ASST. PROFESSOR
SHEELA DEVI INSTITUTE OF MGT. & TECH.

BARKHA SINGH
COMMERCE FACULTY
DAV CENTENARY COLLEGE, FARIDABAD
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 Advantages of OER

Open Educational Resources (OER) offer

Cost-efficient method of improving the quality of teaching

and learning

Economical commercial textbooks and learning materials

Higher education
 OER include items

Free textbooks, courses,

Course materials,

Streaming audio/video of classroom

lectures,

Tests,
 Improving the Quality of Teaching and
Learning through
Resource Sharing and Collaboration

OER enable teachers and learners to access

the best educational resources.

OER movement promises to steadily enhance

the quality of teaching and learning.

The dramatic expansion of OER has created

great new opportunities for improving
teaching and learning.
 Different Types of OER Meet
Different Needs
OER Digitized Library Collections
:Digitized Library Collections are another fast-
growing form of OER.

Open Textbooks : Open textbooks can be

traditional textbooks that have been made
available online or new works created by
talented faculty who wish to share their
knowledge.
 Different Types of OER Meet
Different Needs
Intellectual Property Management:
Concerns about intellectual property (IP)
issues related to copyright.

Online Tools Support and Empower the

OER Community : There is also a growing
set of online tools that are making it easier
than ever to find, use, create and distribute
OER.
 Moving OER into the Educational
Mainstream:
Challenges and Opportunities
Sustenance and Promotion for
contribution towards OER

Strategy :

Tool Improvement for efficient OER production

process

Encouraging the wider educational community

to participate.
 Moving OER into the Educational
Mainstream:
Challenges and Opportunities
Acceleration of adaptations for OER for
specific applications and groups of learners.

Strategy :

Greater variety of educational contexts.

Advancement will encourage the creation of

additional high-quality OER content
 Open Educational
References
Khan Academy
A library of more than 1,600 video tutorials covering
most of the K-12 math curriculum and an increasing
number of other subjects.
http://www.khanacademy.org/

Wikipedia : Wikipedia is the undisputed champion

of user-driven collaborative encyclopedias.
78 million visitors monthly, and more than 91,000
active contributors working on more than
16,000,000 articles in more than 270 languages.
 Open Educational
References
Public Library of Science
PLOS is run by a non-profit organization of scientists
and physicians working to make the world’s medical
and scientific literature open and accessible.
http://www.plos.org/

WikiEducator
WikiEducator has links to free and open textbook
sources.
http://wikieducator.org/Free_ textbooks
 Online Study Material
Websites
www.authorstream.com
www.slideshare.com
www.slideworld.com
www.docstoc.com
www.citehr.com
www.scribd.com
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