SWAYAM OER for Empowering Teachers.
Overview
SWAYAM OER for Empowering Teachers.
OER for Empowering Teachers
OER provides teachers with the opportunity to create, share, and remix materials for their individual classrooms. The flexibility of OER allows educators to customize educational content to their students' skills and learning styles. Additionally, it can provide lower-cost alternatives to physical textbooks and supplies. OER thus offers teachers a more time-effective, cost-effective, and flexible way to innovate and create educational resources.
What is OER for Empowering Teachers
Open Educational Resources (OER) is a term used to describe free and openly licensed materials that can be used, reused, edited, and shared through digital technologies. It provides teachers with access to a variety of resources that can be incorporated into learning activities. OER empowers teachers by giving them the autonomy to create original content and create customized, dynamic learning experiences for students.
Overview OER for Empowering Teachers
Open educational resources (OER) have already impacted educational systems around the world. In higher education more specifically, it has benefited learners, and has influenced institutional strategic plans and policies. Additionally, the benefits of OER also extend to staff in higher education, such as academic staff. For this group, OER can provide opportunities for collaboration, promote curriculum innovation and student led content development, as well as contribute to university teachers’ much needed continuing professional development. In this paper, we examine the potential of OER to build capacity of academic staff in higher education, in particular to overcome some equity and access issues that they may face. It also examines some existing activities and strategies for professional development in higher educational institutions and provides some recommendations for academics, academic developers, institutions, and the sector in general.