30 March 2019
12:15–13:15
Moataz Al Alfi Hall
The presentation is intended to persusde partcipants to be actively involved, support and embrace OER initiative in their individual institutions as well as collective efforts on establishing OER consotium among AMICAL member institutions.
Higher education institutions worldwide face significant challenges related to providing increased access to teaching and learning resources while containing costs in the face of budget contraint, OER initiative helps institutions to cater for students’ textbook cost and eliminate barriers to education by providing equal opportunities to students. Open Educational Resources (OER) is an emerging trend in academic community which offers the opportunity to access information free of charge through a customized digital platform with open data, e-books and other educational-resources. OER is therefore an important consideration in order to meet the ever increasing and increasingly varied demand for quality higher education as well as enhancing life-long and personalized learning in the information society.