Open Educational Resources (OER) describes any educational resources (including curriculum maps, course materials, textbooks, streaming videos, multimedia applications, podcasts, and any other materials that have been designed for use in teaching and learning) that are openly available for use by educators and students, without an accompanying need to pay royalties or licence fees.
In todays everchanging digital world, the concept of learning is changing. If once the power was to have the right information, in today’s online world, where we can easily access the information, the real power is how to manage with available information.
This guide is prepared by UNESCO, to offer answers for a specific’s terms and definitions, but as well to provide guidance on how to search, find and access to the OERs.
OERs today can be very powerful tools for free of charge self-learning. They can be particularly useful for professional development on a specific topic.
VET practitioners can benefit using OERs for self-learning and self-development, particularly when all other resources for general education, does not offer enough information for a specific’s vocations.
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Project No. 2022‐2‐ES01‐KA210‐VET‐000096341
Project No.
2022‐2‐ES01‐KA210‐VET‐000096341