Dreamweaving Open Educational Practices

The Open University of Sri Lanka
Computing. The students were also introduced to subject-related OER videos that
were useful to enhance their learning via WhatsApp through smart phones. Parents
were made aware of it.
It was not the end of her effort but she had met other teachers, the parents and
students including past pupils and made them aware about OER and sharing OER
emphasizing on their best use and also discussed with them how to utilize the
available multimedia resources and how to obtain the necessary resources. In
addition she has initiated to share the clips she had created as OER through smart
phones, blogs, writing CDs and share with the students.
They were benefited…
“Although integrating OER in teaching is time consuming, later it made the teaching
and planning lesson easy once it is properly done, I also was able to reuse it
and share with it the parallel teachers. OER enhanced the learning of students as
well since the students that showed positive feedbacks after sharing some useful
interactive video materials to do further self-learning” (as cited in one of their stories).
This is the end of a successful journey. …For them OER is no more a dream. They will
share their experiences in the near future with their peer teachers to wake up the
whole country and make the dream of OER come true…
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