I am creating this blog for the open contest
licensing for educator course (OCL4Ed) first learning reflection.
Mr. Downes pointed out on education material sharing. I totally
agree with this point. Because I signed up for this course, that I am a
lecturer in Information Technology and i want to share my knowledge, ideas and
resources with all my students and others. I like to share because I am
always learning new ways to motivate and inspire learning!.
OER
allow students to gain access to material and ideas that they may not be able
to learn or access within their current educational institution. Its actually sharing
knowledge, learning from others and also collaboration work. Sharing allows learning
more and improving our teaching skills.
Simon
Mahony, Department of Information Studies mentioned that “Using OER is like
getting a guest speaker to supply an expert view or presentation.”
Furthermore
during this course, I had a chance to learn how to create a blog and how to
post my reflections on the forum. Also, reading the blogs of the other participants
and getting to know about their valuable opinions. All of these are new for me.
I
agree that there should be freedom in learning. I feel open is when we do away
with restrictions to the maximum. OER is a great base for accelerated quality mass education strategy
implementation.
With 21st
Century digital freedom allowing people to get access and use to free open educational
resources. And also allow the sharing of knowledge with each other’s. Developing
country like my country Sri Lanka will get the maximum benefit of using OER because
most of our students don’t have much money to buy expensive library books. So
OER can also reduce poverty to quite an extent. Education is very fundamental in
everyone's life. Everyone should get the opportunity to be educated. ♯OCL4Ed
