Open Educational Resources in Supporting Online Education During COVID-19

Open Educational Resources in Supporting Online Education During COVID-19

Nadim Akhtar Khan
Copyright: © 2024 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-0094-7.ch004
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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the most significant global crisis that brought humanity to a halt. The world is currently facing many issues evolving through these situations, ranging from health issues, economic breakdown, unemployment due to job losses, and, more severely, the challenges faced in educational setups. The closure of educational institutions and the subsequent shift of classrooms to online teaching led to further crises. The prominent challenges include increased workload, inadequate training, and less familiarity with the availability of ready-to-use online educational resources. Many world organizations and policymakers in the field of education and open learning have unanimously supported the use of open educational resources (OER) in online teaching and learning during the present times. The current study highlights the importance of OER in online learning by reviewing important initiatives, reports, and collaborative arrangements by prominent organizations for promoting the use of OER in online learning as a significant response to COVID-19.
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The literature survey is carried out using reputed databases and search engines like Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, Directory of Open Access Journals, publishing houses like Wiley, Emerald, Taylor and Francis, etc., and other initiatives in the area like OER Research Hub, OERworldmap, OER for Development (OER4D), OER Knowledge Cloud, etc., in an attempt to identify substantial works about different aspects concerning OER and Covid-19. The literature survey, coupled with further digging into the websites and initiative portals of various important organisations and critical players in OER, helped to identify and explore many such important initiatives with substantial contributions to supporting online teaching and learning during the pandemic were considered for this work.

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