Abstract
Open Educational Resources (OERs) have gained increased attention for their potential to provide equitable and accessible educational facilities for people worldwide. Obviating demographic, economic, and geographic educational boundaries can be the OERs slogan. Realization of this promise is an inevitable target of eLearning, thus offering education new challenges. In this observation paper, we express OERs altruistic and idealistic reasons as well as their opportunities and advantages for three groups of eLearning stakeholders, namely learners, teachers, and educational institutions. Also, this paper addresses open questions such as what are the current limitations and challenges of developing and distributing OERs in the fast changing global educational environment.
Highlights
Fattaneh Taghiyareh is Associate professor of Computer Engineering, Software and Information Technology, at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, where she has served since 2001
Hornung-Prähauser, and Schaffert (2007) argue that experts who understand Open Educational Resources (OERs) as the means of leveraging educational practices and outcomes will define OERs based on three core attributes as: access is provided free of charge, contents are liberally licensed for reuse, educational systems/tools/software are used for which the source code is available
We have attempted to show that OERs increasingly play a fundamental role in education and training processes on a world-wide scale
Summary
Recent information and communication technology development leads to a significant progress towards realization of the eLearning slogan “providing educational services for everyone at any time and in any place”. Along with the possibility of lifelong learning can lead to the full development of the human personality In this respect, UNESCO has actively endeavored to disseminate OERs around the world, and operates its own OERs platform (http://www.oerplatform.org/). Aggregating various definitions offered for OER, this concept can be defined as: OERs are digital materials, i.e. resources supporting training, learning, and research activities, which are available, entirely free of charge to all interested students, teachers, and self-learners (Hylén, 2005). Implementations: Intellectual property licenses to promote open publishing of materials, design principles of best practice, and localization of content.
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