Dreamweaving Open Educational Practices

Dreamweaving Open Educational Practices
Impacts on teaching and learning
Our student teachers gave different reasons on how OER influenced their teaching
learning process. Everyone in the group accepted that their teaching-learning
process has become more attractive; “…teaching learning process became more
attractive than previously…”
We categorized the other reasons as follows:
• Could develop new lesson plans in a modern way using new facts
• Attractive, appropriate and correct teaching aids could be found instead of
making an effort to make them.
• Knowledge was updated as it was shared with others.
• Students were motivated to search for new information.
• Ability to understand the new creative activities such as number games, magic
squares… etc.
• Usage of computer that was abandoned in the past was revived.
Our teachers stated these facts based on observing the increase in the assignment
marks of students. In addition, teachers have mentioned their feelings through final
concept maps.
Future plans
Our student teachers are planning to perform the facilitative role of a teacher in
a fruitful manner by using more resources and by engaging in this programme
throughout. They wanted to increase their knowledge on OER more and more.
They also wanted to raise awareness and educate other members of their staff
about OER.
“…we need to educate the other members of the staff as well as the other teacher
friends about this programme.”
They said that then they could share and exchange knowledge and resources with
all. They thought that they can update the knowledge through frequent usage
of OER. They also believed that if teachers can perform their role with such new
technology, it will be more productive for students as well. These teachers have
identified a large number of OER sources used to fulfill their above goal, as evidence.
In the future they plan to get information for assessments and evaluation of
students as well as to exchange knowledge through OER and therefore they
n eed mo re webs i tes th ro u gh wh i ch O E R i s ava i l ab l e. T h ey wi l l take s u ch steps to
promote OER, because these are the groups who are really interested and motivated.
They also need to write and publish books etc to disseminate their knowledge.
Their continuous involvement in seeking and sharing knowledge through OER will
be a good trend that will contribute to a positive future of school education.
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