Dreamweaving Open Educational Practices

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The Open University of Sri Lanka Matara Go-getters 9.3 Our first impressions/perceptions At first, we did not have any idea about open educational resources and we had never even heard the term. As teachers, we used to download whatever relevant material from the web as we thought those were freely and easily available. Therefore, when we came to know about OER, we wondered what OER was for. However, we had a curiosity to find out more about it and also to discover its importance. The requirement to draw initial concept maps on our thinking about “Openness in Education” during the orientation session motivated us to think further on this concept (Fig. 9.3.1). Figure 9.3.1: Our initial concept maps 201
Dreamweaving Open Educational Practices Starting point We first came to know about OER by participating in the initial workshop on OER conducted at the Matara Regional centre on 02nd April 2015 by a team of academics from the Faculty of Education of the Open University. In the workshop we had the opportunity to view a short video titled ‘Copying is not theft’. It was an entertaining video with cartoon-like characters but it gave a broad idea which we understood gradually. The video explained the sharing concept of OER very attractively, which would have otherwise involved a lengthy explanation. The video also explained the other concepts in OER such as Remix, Reuse, Revise and Redistribute. After that, the workshop sessions conducted by the OUSL staff enabled us to get a clear idea about the OER concept through hands-on experiences. Also we realized as a result of learning about OER, that our habit of downloading and using materials from the Internet without acknowledgement is a wrong practice. This led us to find and use resources without violating copyrights of others. Adoption/integration of OER After learning about the concept of OER, we realized that these can be used for the improvement of the quality and attraction of the teaching –learning process. We started searching for good quality OER available on the web with the expectation that we would be able to create our own resources in the form of images, texts, and animations etc in the future. We integrated the OER found in our teaching materials. We also downloaded videos, images and other OER from the Internet and translated them to Sinhala and sometimes combined OER with our creations to make new OER and used them for the teaching – learning process (Fig. 9.3.2). Fig.9.3.2: Creating OER in Sinhala 202
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