Dreamweaving Open Educational Practices

Dreamweaving Open Educational Practices
teaching-learning processes. During the second stage of the teaching practice we
integrated OER in our teaching learning processes. One of our team members, S.
Sathiyan successfully integrated OER in an ICT lesson under the Topic of ‘Numbering
Systems’. We found many OER using Google and embedded them in our lesson
plans. We shared OER resources with our colleagues. We shared the lesson plan
through OUSL-LMS to other colleagues. We used OER to illustrate difficult and unknown
concepts to our children in an effective way (Fig. 6.5.1).
Fig. 6.5.1: An OER found and shared by us
Our team members T. Sutharsan and S. Sathiyan successfully conducted OER-integrated
lessons. The OER helped us to broaden our knowledge. Logic Gates and Truth
tables in ICT were difficult to demonstrate to the students but OER gave a better
way to explain the subject. It provided free sharing and collaborative opportunities
within the educational realm. We linked OER with various steps of 5E lesson plan. It
was very useful to save our time in making some written documents. We were able
to use OER to replace traditional text books, dramatically lowering the cost that
students pay for their education. OER enabled us to actively engage our students in
their learning. Table 6.5.1 indicates some examples of OER integrated by us.
Challenges
We faced many challenges in identifying and recognizing OER materials. Earlier we
had little knowledge of OER and their licenses. Availability of OER materials for the
region and local languages were also very few. We faced difficulties to get internet.
When we integrated OER in our teaching practices we had to struggle with many
inconvenient situations. Lack of internet facilities, inadequate laboratory facilities
of schools were some of the barriers to adopt OER in teaching-learning process.
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