Dreamweaving Open Educational Practices

The Open University of Sri Lanka
Teacher students stated these facts based on the increase in the marks gained for
assignments of students.
Future steps
However, a few teachers in the group have meaningful and reliable plans.
One teacher stated that she has a plan to publish a book about OER. “…I would like
to make a book about OER...” she mentioned.
Another one wants to increase the knowledge of OER among others. She stated that
“…I would like to introduce OER to other teachers…”
These members have given a large number of OER as evidence.
Everyone accepted that they found OER to be very useful. They also mentioned
that they can design and implement awareness raising programmes to introduce
OER to other staff members in their own schools and other schools as well. They are
alsointerested in creating and add OER in their mother tongue.
These teachers appreciate that this is very good opportunity for them to join as a
member of the OER group in the faculty of education in the Open University of Sri
Lanka.
Last milepost
As the final event an evaluation workshop was held in the Kandy Regional
Centre. During this workshop, the students were given an opportunity to write stories
regarding their journey of this OER programme. Eleven students participated in
this workshop and they were divided into two groups to write the stories. The
participation certificates were also distributed to the participants.
This project is only the first step of introducing a new concept of Open Educational
Resources for the teachers to enhance their teaching-learning process. We hope
that the participants will gain more knowledge and skills in relation to OER and
that theywill be further motivated to integrate them into their teaching-learning
process. Finally, we wish all teachers success in this endeavour of creating,
sharing and integrating OER into the teaching learning process in order to share
them with their future custodians.
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