Dreamweaving Open Educational Practices

The Open University of Sri Lanka
It was a great pleasure for us to be team members of such an innovative project. As
coordinators and research assistants it was a great challenge to motivate student
teachers to remain in the project continually. Though we really wanted to keep in
touch with the students all the time, we faced some hiccups in the process due to
personal and official activities and time constraints. Though the situation was such,
we were fortunate to have several self-motivated students. We were really happy to
observe that they were able to engage in the activities provided, with the guidance
provided. After the Mid-Intervention workshop, we have to have a close monitoring
of the activities done by the students. When we visited the center, we were able to
monitor the activities carried out by the student teachers in line with the OER project.
Further, we noticed that they were ready to standup confidently in front of their
colleagues, and explain their engagement with OER. We realized those who actively
participated in the online activities as well as other OER-related activities have truly
benefitted and enhanced their teaching-learning process.
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