Need for Open Educational Resources (OER)Presentation: Matus & Lavanya Concept: Lionel Paul

Education Challenges Woldwide

Many countries have a goal to provide fundamental or basic education to all.

Accomplishing this goal has been a huge challenge to these countries and it continues to be so.

Providing high quality education to the learners while containing the costs is a common challenge that educators face globally.

What is the need?

Current information technology developmenthas highlighted the deficiencies and challenges in the traditional education system.

There is a great need for quality education that can be easily accessed globally.

The education that is provided also needs to be flexible, adaptable, and personalized.

OER and the current technological developments can be an answer to providing such education.

What is OER?

Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning materials such as structured courses, course reference materials, books, assessments, audio, video, software, tools, technology, techniques and other related materials that enable knowledge acquisition. They include intellectual property licenses that govern open publishing of materials, design-principles, and localization of content.

Key Benefits

Open license can raise the education standards globally.

The open license enables the instructors and learners to use the content anywhere, anytime and in anyway they deem fit.

• Users don’t have to be concerned about how long the OER can be used.

• There are a wide variety of devices both mobile and static where OER can be used effectively.

• High quality education to all can be achieved by open content and technology intergradation.

Education is the birthright of every human being; like how the sunshine,

moonlight, breeze and storm, are equally experienced by every living soul,

so should the experience of learning be enjoyed by everyone.

Thank you very much for your attention.

Please contact gearED teamif you are interested in our project.

Thank you!

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