Dreamweaving Open Educational Practices

Dreamweaving Open Educational Practices
We created new OER in Sinhala for our students. Sometimes we translated existing
OER into Sinhala and developed it further. We were able to use presentations,
audios, videos, etc. to our lessons and such additions made our lessons more attractive
to students. When we were using OER we became more and more familiar
with the new technology. It was helpful for the development of our careers. We had
the opportunity to compare our knowledge with the global knowledge. It helped
to develop our knowledge further. We got more confidence to teach than earlier
by using OER. We are pleased to note that we developed our personalities through
such activities.
Impacts on the teaching-learning process
The concept of OER directed us on a different path. We became more creative and
practical teachers by using OER. We practiced to use new technology for our lessons.
We applied multimedia resources for our teaching and learning process. By
doing all those activities teaching and learning process was further enhanced. We
were further motivated to teach and students were also motivated to learn. When
we were using presentations, audios, videos and other different types of OER, we
were able to attract students into the teaching-learning process, and students’ understanding
of subject matters was also enhanced. Finally we became successful
and popular teachers among the students and staff.
Futureplans
We introduced this novel concept of OER to our colleagues at school. The newly
recruited teachers liked to apply this concept to their teaching-learning process.
We wish to introduce this concept to other teachers of our school too. This concept
is also helpful for A/L students, and we hope to make them aware of OER. It is a
novel concept for PGDE student teachers. So we hope this concept will be
introduced to other teachers who had followed PGDE in the OUSL and also to those
who wish to follow PGDE at OUSL in the future. We hope to hold a workshop for
school teachers and introduce this concept. We will seek the support of our school
principal for this purpose.
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Anuradhapura Regional Centre, OUSL
Trend-setters
Rev. N .Indrarathana Thero
H.G. Mahima Padmachandrani
W.M Nalika Subashini
H.G. Mahima Padmachandrani
L.Ranjan Gonsalkorala
W.M. Sunil Weerakoon
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