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The Open University of Sri Lanka Jaffna Pioneers 6.3 Our first impressions on OER At first the term OER was introduced by our lecturer at a day school and we were informed about the project on OER integrated teaching and learning. We were astonished to hear that we will be given a chance to participate in this innovative project. Earlier we had no idea about OER. We used non-electronic materials, web pages and text books as our teaching aids as we were not aware of OER. Therefore, we expressed our consent to participate in the project. After the first intervention workshop conducted in March 2015 and through the awareness program we got to know about the OER concept. We were amazed to know that a lot of OER are available without any cost which can be used for teaching and learning easily. We understood that OER are helpful to improve access to learning opportunities by sharing knowledge and learning resources. The OER movement seeks to stimulate, facilitate and increase the growth of the learning resources freely available on the Internet. One of our team members, Rev. E. Edwinathan appreciated his experience of the first intervention workshop as follows: 30th March 2015 - “It is a very useful programme. Today I could learn about the OER concept. It helps me a lot to my teaching practice. Through this OER, I will plan out better lesson plans in future.” Further, Kingston Sumanraj also expressed his opinion as follows: 30th March 2015- “First and foremost I enjoyed OER programme enthusiastically. I learned a lot of this programme. I hope it helps me to enhance my teaching-learning processes” After this workshop we wondered how we should integrate OER our teaching in our schools. At the very beginning we were not aware of how to download or integrate OER in our teaching and learning process. However we perceived this as a wonderful experience. Starting point of OER in our profession We started to use OER as teaching materials in our classroom activities after the first workshop. With the help of our colleagues we searched OER that are free to 115
Dreamweaving Open Educational Practices use, adapt, mix and share. We tried to use the OER in our teaching and learning process in numerous ways. Eventually we realized that OER have become a part of our teaching carriers. During our Postgraduate Diploma Teaching Practice period we successfully used OER as teaching-learning aids in our lessons. We are proud to say that our team leader Rev. Fr. Edwinathan was the pioneer in OER integrated teaching in Jaffna. He successfully integrated an OER, a video to teach the topic “Parliament” for his Civics lesson. It was observed by our lecturer and a master teacher. This experience was shared with other participants and they were also motivated towards OER integrated teaching. Adoption and integration of OER We integrated OER at the various steps of our lessons. Especially we used OER in engagement, explanation and evaluation steps. We created PowerPoint presentation with the integration of OER during our class room teaching activities. For example, one member had downloaded the Sri Lankan parliament history from an OER repository and used it to introduce parliament activities with the help of a multimedia projector in the class room. Another member has directed the students to make a cube histogram with the help of OER. We felt that we have developed the skills to use valuable educational material for our students without any cost. Further, one of our team members Karthika found and shared many useful OER. Some important links shared by her are given in Table 6.3.1. Challenges and frustrations After the awareness workshop we were interested in finding OER and tried to use them in our teaching-learning process with great motivation. However, we didn’t have enough time to spend in the internet for OER searching. Some of us didn’t have enough knowledge of using computers either. We were also affected by the lack of English knowledge. We were unable to find teaching aids or materials as OER for all the subjects. We didn’t have a good internet connection most of the time. Further, most of us teach in remote areas where internet facilities are not available at all. We were unable to find OER in Tamil. Because of these experiences, we faced difficulties in integrating OER in our lessons, Most of the time LMS was also not available. We felt frustrated due to these reasons. But our enthusiasm towards the OER and motivation from our lecturers helped us to overcome these challenges and march towards our targets. 116
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