As a starting point I suggest you to follow this link and watch a video about open educational resources which will give you an overall understanding of this phenomenon. This what I did because I didn't know anything about OER Now let me discuss a notion of Open Educational Resorces (OER) from my point of view. OER is an open resourse available for everyone who need it. It's a kind of free online learning. The idea of it is to create an online/virtual space full of various resources for people who do not have access to the information they need. As we live in the technology century we should consider using it for educational puposes as wisely as possible. From the economic point of view having educated and inteligent generation is very important in this fast developing world and of course in this case the access to higher education is obligatory. But now it is difficult to find a single University which can provide its students sufficient resources. We need a new education extending tool. Thus, creating such kind of online resources and giving students access to them freely from different parts of the world will be of great help. Of course OER is a great tool but its design and creation cost a lot of money and effort. Maybe that's why in Armenia we don't have so well developed OER and that should make us think about trying to develop and improve it for coming generation.
As you see OER is of great importance and the evidence of it is that the first world OER congress will be held 20-22 June 2012 at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France. The Congress aims to influence educational planning worldwide and to encourage governments to support the development and use of open educational resources.
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