Open Educational Resources (OER) development, adaptation and use
Authors: A.Texeira, L.Morgado, Universidade Aberta, Portugal; A.A.Fuente, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
Having successfully completed all training material, you will be able to:
- understand the Open Educational Resources and Open education Practices
- describe/identify specific characteristics of OER
- describe the evolution of the OER movement
- find, select, assess an OER
- use an OER in a VM context
- produce/reuse an OER for a VM context
Unit 1. OER/OEP concept, history and contexts
1.2.1 What defines a OEP?
An OEP is defined as an Educational resources developed in open environments can be continuously improved and adapted for use by a wider community of educators. Therefore, OER call for the notion of OEP which relates to any educational activity involving the creation, use, or dissemination of an adaptive open learning resource.
In the words of Teixeira (2012) inclusive OEP can be best defined as practices which support the (re) use and production of OER in the framework of educational policies that promote innovative pedagogical models, and respect, empower and emancipate learners as co-producers on their lifelong learning process.
Beyond access to open learning architectures, the focus of open education is now on learning as a process that can be built and shared in an inclusive way.