Encouraging Creativity in the Educational Organizations through the Use of Open Educational Resources

Authors

  • Lamees Abbas

Keywords:

Open Educational Resources, OER, OLnet, OpenLearn, Activity Theory, Creativity

Abstract

The design of educational material has a history of allowing people to

present an individual expert view (the researcher as academic teacher) and a

published base of knowledge (the academic teacher as text book writer) . As

learning has moved online and has now become more open a new dynamic of

communication is emerging from the teacher to the learner, from the teacher

to the teacher, and from the organisation to the world. In exploiting these

new dynamics there are changes in motivations for creating and designing

materials, but are there also chances to embrace a new creativity? In this

paper we use an activity theoretic approach to look at three sources of

evidence for impact from taking an open approach to learning resources. First

impact on an organisation to identify its role as an enabler for creativity and

change. Second on the educator and the way reuse of content allows selection

of new patterns of design. Third impact is on the learner as open educational

resources blends content with social. The cases present evidence that seeing

open resources as change agents can lead to the release of creativity for

organisations, for teachers and for learners.

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Published

2017-05-23

How to Cite

Abbas, L. (2017). Encouraging Creativity in the Educational Organizations through the Use of Open Educational Resources. Palestinian Journal for Open Learning & E-Learning, 5(9). Retrieved from https://journals.qou.edu/index.php/jropenres/article/view/413

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 9 (2015): المجلد الخامس- العدد التاسع - كانون ثاني 2015

Section

searchesEn

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