As we learned in our podcast for this week’s lesson, open
education is all about making education material easily accessible to a wide
audience. An example that was discussed was making course materials and
lectures from a university to be accessed by anyone over the Internet for free.
This open learning experience offers the opportunity for a motivated connected
learner to learn just about anything on their own time and typically without
cost. When I find myself struggling with a certain lesson of topic, I often use
the open education source, MIT OpenCourseWare which is a tool that offers a
variety of free courses and video lessons. There are many other colleges such
as Yale, Harvard, and UC Berkeley that offer free online educational material, not
only is there study help for students but open content for teachers too. Open content allows for teachers to reuse,
revise, remix, or redistribute educational material for their teaching. Access
to these materials allows for students to obtain higher quality and up to date
materials, allowing for a better future for our advancing society.
Open educational resources (OER) are materials meant for teaching or learning that are either available to the public without cost or have been released under a license that allows them to be freely used, changed, and shared with others.An article from Education Week gives an overview about how OER is different from other online materials, how it relates to the federal education law, and how it is used. It also talks about how the majority use of OER by teachers is to provide additional practice and sources for an existing lesson. On the other hand, these resources can also be used for those who do not have access to education and wish to expand their learning, which makes open educational resources a beneficial tool for today's youth.
Check out my comments on Kathryn's and Alexis's Blog Post #3!
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