- With the development of science and technology, the ways of education have become more diverse. We can quickly get the learning resources we need from various places. When we browse the Internet, what resources do we have that can be reprinted, modified and used at will? During this week’s study, I realized that there is a difference between online educational content and publicly licensed informative content.
In my understanding, I think online education content is an excellent learning resource — an advantage of online education is that as long as we have the network and terminal equipment, we can learn anytime, anywhere. Open license education content is also a type of online education content, but the difference is that these educational resources all show an open license. The four most popular licenses are usually the most popular, and there are a total of 16 combinations. When we want to access, copy or modify these educational resources to apply to our courseware, we need to understand the rights reserved by these different licenses.
- Generally, OER is the learning material and teaching that are freely accessible with an open license or in a public domain. Under these different licenses, the users can use, remix, improve and redistribute. Here I will show you where to find open learning resources, and I will give an example of an OER.
- Based on the evaluation guide found in the tutorial, I feel that the information given in this instructional video is accurate without any significant content errors. The information it provides is also clear and well understood. For multimedia resources, the quality of this video is also high. In the video, the instructor encourages us to try it ourselves. However, I think he should better give an example to lets us participate more in the class. Here the given license is CC, which is the most common one. It used when an author wants to give other people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that the author has created.
- In conclusion, OER can help our learning quality more efficiently. As a student, OER has a lot to do in my daily life. For example, textbooks are always a costly expense, and I think it is also very unfriendly, and it is too cumbersome to carry. After knowing OER, I can better search the learning resources I want online, such as e-books, so that I can learn at any time as long as there is an internet. For those professional workers, OER can also help them to find suitable courseware to better build their teaching content without being overwhelmed.
All in all, I think OER is a significant development. There are still many weak areas in the world where children cannot get the same education as others. As online resources become more comprehensive, these children can get a good education as long as they have an Internet connection. In other words, while providing so many learning resources, OER also guarantees high quality, allowing us to ingest professional knowledge that is sometimes incomprehensible in the classroom.
