INFORMATION LITERACY IN OPEN EDUCATION RESOURCES AMONG RESEARCH SCHOLARS OF OPEN UNIVERSITY DURING COVID-19

Abstract

Education becomes basic necessity of learning. When learners start their education with the different resources, the authority of the content and trustworthiness become less if learners do not know about the authentic resources. Research scholars highly used the research paper of peer-reviewed and UGC care-list journals. The study aimed to know the level of information literacy towards open education resources among research scholar of Open University. The population for the study consisted of the research scholar drawn from the four schools of the Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Open University, i.e., School of Humanities and Social Science, School of Commerce, School of Computer Science, and School of education. Questionnaires were sent in google form to the researchers, out of that 35(87.5%) respondents fill their responses properly. The findings revealed that major respondents agreed on the lack of awareness of the existing OER, faculty, friends, colleges, social media, and librarians play a vital role to promote or create awareness of OER and useful for learning and updating knowledge in covid-19. Swayam, Moocs, and Epg-Pathshala are mostly used by researchers for accessing the academic video. To creates awareness university needs to organize orientation programs, information literacy programs, workshops, OER training, and development programs.