Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources

Open educational resources (OERs) are free and openly licensed educational materials that can be used for teaching, learning, research, and other purposes. Open educational resources can be very helpful for students who want to learn, teach and research resources for free. According to Joel Smith OERs are designed to increase the number of educated people. The advantages of OER is that students can share information, discuss various topics, and use different methods of teaching. The second advantage about OER is the free availability of online courses. In open educational resources there is no technical barriers, no price barriers, and as few legal permissions as possible. The end-user should be able not only to use the resources and read it but also to adapt it and reuse. 

In Armenia students do not use OERs for several reasons. The first is that students are lazy and second Armenian students do not like to share information or work collaboratively. But as for me I think that OERs can be very helpful for the students who want to be more literate and skillful. As for me I'm going to use open educational resources and hope students in our country will be glad to use alternative methods of learning which is nothing but beneficial and helpful.