Openness is one of the most influential drivers of change in education and training today, especially for educational organizations both in adult learning as well as in higher education. Open educational resources (ОER) as a manifestation of the principle of openness is gradually becoming an integral part of the educational environment in higher education.
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OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES: SOME USAGE ASPECTS Lavryk T.V.1, head of pedagogical innovations laboratory Saharova Natalia, student of translation speciality Sumy State University 1metodist@dl.sumdu.edu.ua  Openness is one of the most influential drivers of change in education and training today, especially for educational organizations both in adult learning as well as in higher education [3]. Open educational resources (ОER) as a manifestation of the principle of openness is gradually becoming an integral part of the educational environment in higher education. The ОER conception is based on the principle of guaranteeing a right to education for everyone.  OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. OER include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge [4]. There are some special OER repositories, in which they are classified by a subject area, levels of education and types of materials. Good examples of relevant OER repositories and other sites are outlined by Welch and in the annotated guide to finding OER produced by the Commonwealth of Learning [1; 2; 5]. While looking for OER in repositories the attention should be paid to the type of Creative Commons license of a resource. The usage and adaptation of existing OER for a lecturer is more effective way in the active introduction of e-learning, than the creation of new teaching aids. Despite the fact that there is a significant amount of OER repositories, the question of their usage in higher education is under-represented. This is due to the fact that until now the focus was on “opening up access and availability”. The authors assert that transition to the stage of “improving learning quality” through OER is just in the process now. There are 5 possible ways of using OER in materials of the training (seminar) workshop to introduce institutions to OER [1]: – to enhance an existing course or offering by adding OER; – to improve existing materials by replacing it with OER; – to create new part of materials by using or re-purposing OER; – to create new courses by using, re-using and re-purposing OER; – use students to generate OER. Research conducted on the impact of teachers’ participation in Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education OER training has shown that OER professional development workshops have supported teachers in creating, using, sharing and reusing OER. Specifically, research revealed that teachers have not only created their own OER since participating in the workshops, but have also incorporated OER into their teaching practices and have used it for their own learning [3].  References: 1.  Commonwealth of Learning. One-day workshop on the use, re-use, and re-purpose of OER. Retrieved from http://col-oer.weebly.com/workshop-on-use-and-re-use-of-oer.html 2.  Glennie, J., Harley, K., Butcher N., van Wyk T. (2012) Perspectivea on open and distance learning: Open Educational Resources and change in higher education:reflections from practices. Commonwealth of Learning. Retrieved from http:// http://www.col.org/ PublicationDocuments/pub_PS_OER_web.pdf 3.  OEP Roadmap for Education Professionals. Retrieved from http://www.oer-quality.org/publications/guide/roadmap/professionals/ 4.  OER defined. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Retrieved from http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education-program/open-educational-resources 5.  Welch, T. (2011). Finding and evaluating OER. [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from http://www.saide.org.za/resources/newsletters/ Vol_17_no.5_2011/Content/Finding%20OER.pdf  Електронні засоби та дистанційні технології для навчання протягом життя : тези доповідей  VIII Міжнародної науково-методичної конференції, м. Суми, 15–16 листопада 2012 р. – Суми : Сумський державний університет, 2012. – 148 с.  

Open educational resources: some usage aspects

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OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES: 
SOME USAGE ASPECTS 
Lavryk T.V.1, head of pedagogical innovations laboratory 
Saharova Natalia, student of translation speciality 
Sumy State University 
1metodist@dl.sumdu.edu.ua 
 
Openness is one of the most influential drivers of change in education and training today, 
especially for educational organizations both in adult learning as well as in higher education [3]. 
Open educational resources (ОER) as a manifestation of the principle of openness is gradually 
becoming an integral part of the educational environment in higher education. 
The ОER conception is based on the principle of guaranteeing a right to education for everyone.  
OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been 
released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. 
OER include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, 
and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge [4]. 
There are some special OER repositories, in which they are classified by a subject area, levels of 
education and types of materials. Good examples of relevant OER repositories and other sites are 
outlined by Welch and in the annotated guide to finding OER produced by the Commonwealth of 
Learning [1; 2; 5]. While looking for OER in repositories the attention should be paid to the type of 
Creative Commons license of a resource. 
The usage and adaptation of existing OER for a lecturer is more effective way in the active 
introduction of e-learning, than the creation of new teaching aids. 
Despite the fact that there is a significant amount of OER repositories, the question of their usage 
in higher education is under-represented. This is due to the fact that until now the focus was on 
“opening up access and availability”. The authors assert that transition to the stage of “improving 
learning quality” through OER is just in the process now. 
There are 5 possible ways of using OER in materials of the training (seminar) workshop to 
introduce institutions to OER [1]: 
– to enhance an existing course or offering by adding OER; 
– to improve existing materials by replacing it with OER; 
– to create new part of materials by using or re-purposing OER; 
– to create new courses by using, re-using and re-purposing OER; 
– use students to generate OER. 
Research conducted on the impact of teachers’ participation in Institute for the Study of 
Knowledge Management in Education OER training has shown that OER professional development 
workshops have supported teachers in creating, using, sharing and reusing OER. Specifically, 
research revealed that teachers have not only created their own OER since participating in the 
workshops, but have also incorporated OER into their teaching practices and have used it for their 
own learning [3]. 
 
References: 
1.  Commonwealth of Learning. One-day workshop on the use, re-use, and re-purpose of OER. Retrieved 
from http://col-oer.weebly.com/workshop-on-use-and-re-use-of-oer.html 
2.  Glennie, J., Harley, K., Butcher N., van Wyk T. (2012) Perspectivea on open and distance learning: Open 
Educational Resources and change in higher education:reflections from practices. Commonwealth of 
Learning. Retrieved from http:// http://www.col.org/ 
PublicationDocuments/pub_PS_OER_web.pdf 
3.  OEP Roadmap for Education Professionals. Retrieved from http://www.oer-
quality.org/publications/guide/roadmap/professionals/ 
4.  OER defined. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Retrieved from 
http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education-program/open-educational-resources 
5.  Welch, T. (2011). Finding and evaluating OER. [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from 
http://www.saide.org.za/resources/newsletters/ 
Vol_17_no.5_2011/Content/Finding%20OER.pdf 
 
Електронні засоби та дистанційні технології для навчання протягом життя : тези доповідей  
VIII Міжнародної науково-методичної конференції, м. Суми, 15–16 листопада 2012 р. – 
Суми : Сумський державний університет, 2012. – 148 с. 
 


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