ENHANCING TEACHING AND LEARNING SKILLS WITH OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

Dhaval D. Bhatt; Anjana R.Bunkar

Authors

Dhaval D. Bhatt Parul University, India
Anjana R.Bunkar Parul University, India

Keywords:

Coursera, Courseware, Higher Education, NPTEL, Open Educational Resources, OER, Swayam

Abstract

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials accessible on web at free of cost. It can be freely use, reuse and alter. Open Educational Resources have GNU License that state particularly how the material might be utilized, reused, adjusted and shared with no charges. Open Educational resources have their own attributes and qualities. OER can be utilized by students and faculties both. Student approaches course material with no cost and it is likewise enables faculty to pull out the most essential and solid materials for educating. OER likewise enables staff to modified material according to his/her requirement. Lot of online courses or courseware are available and accessible at free of cost like Coursera, Swayam, NPTEL and many more. It gives opportunities for self learning.The purpose of the present study to provide quick, simple, and easy and user friendly information about open educational resources. This paper will centers around the different accessible open educational resources that can be use in higher education. This paper additionally examines the significance and advantages of open educational resources on students and teaching perspective both. It also provides guidelines about the ways the OER the ways the OER investigates, explores and utilized as a part of most adequately and effectively in higher education.

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