Open Educational Resources

Today`s my post is closely connected with Open Educational Resources (OER) about which I have no idea before our technology class. According to  Brown and Adler  (2008)   in today`s world people should not have one fixed career, instead people should try to have multiple careers and learn more. So Open Educational Resources can be one of the supporting resources for that. Here people can freely find different kind of courses, which I saw exploring them in terms of class .Open educational resources include also , modules , textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge (Smith,2011).  OER offer  useful resources both for teaching and learning. As  Smith (2011) claims OER help many people to increase the education and  get access to many useful resources. 

The main positive thing also is that people can get all those things freely. They also mention that no one wants to use garbage no matter the resources are close or open. Of course, lots of people work hard in order to create these kind of licensed resources which  people can use for educational purposes.  

The main disadvantage  about these resources is that many times people think open resources have default low quality and what  is selling has better quality. I myself sometimes think so. That is really fantastic when  you have such resources under your hand and can use them anytime anywhere, but many people have no idea about the existence of such resources. If we talk about the Armenian learners the implementation of OER will so challenging. I am sure that many people will not be willing to share their materials. I should say that we learned to work together and share information here at AUA. In the Armenian universities or schools students do most of the homework individually. It`s our culture sometimes we do not want to share what we have or know, as we think that belongs only to ME. That is to say we do accept or like collaborative learning. Many people may be surprised by this BUT this is true. Many learners also will not bother them to search or learn something without teacher. We like to be under pressure, we like to be checked. It is a pity but this is true for sure. 

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