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Pedagogy is the act of teaching, which is more elaborately described as a way of teaching in which theory and practice of learning are mostly taken under consideration. Also, the psychological development of learners is noticed (Wiley, 2018). It is used in several other ways, but here it is associated with education only. Some teachings adapt this way to understand the nature of their students. Open educational resources are easily attainable. Open resources have helped students a lot. It can be through videos, audios, or any other thing. Teachers or students can make videos related to the topic (Rebecca (Beck) Pitt, 2020). Videos can help others too and the voice notes can also be shared. Open resources are free for everyone. Presentations and tutorial videos can also be very helpful. Books, guides, pictures, or voice notes regarding lectures can also be posted on open educational resources. Summarized videos and notes are easy to post. These summarized videos can cover a lot of topics in very little time (Maimoona, 2017). OER enabled pedagogy should keep data on the digital platforms so that more people get advantage from it. The 5R permission is the characteristic of OER. Retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute are 5R permissions.

It must reuse the data again and again. The data must be saved, so if by chance, it gets deleted or corrupted, it was already stored. Its several copies should be made, which resembles the original one. Data must also be corrected if any mistakes are present. It must be examined properly. It should be distributed again, and several copies should be stored and sent further so that there is no chance of losing data, and people can easily access it. It is most important for teachers and learners to get it (Wiley, 2018). Teaching and learning are interlinked to one another. Teaching is passing on knowledge or information, and learning is taking all the knowledge which has been passed on. But for that, open resources are the best ones because it is the only place where you find every kind of information altogether. Here children learn according to their interests. They search about the topic in which they are most interested. No one imposes his/her choice on a child about what to learn and what not to. So OER Enabled Pedagogy is a complete platform of teaching and learning (Learning portal, 2018). Students undergo new experiences. They will understand technology more. Tutorials, videos, and online assignments will engage them. Teachers will also face new ways of teaching. Marking and grading will be easier. It will be within no time also sharing their answers and creations in the form of essays, articles, poems, tutorials, videos, and experiments openly, will develop more confidence in them, and their work will help the next generations. The answer to any question will be one click away. The only problem is that people need to understand the value of OER Enabled Pedagogy (Wiley, 2018). It is without academic tuition and textbook expenses. As soon as people realize its importance, no other learning pattern will be more appreciated than this.

References

Learning portal. (2018, March 2018). Effective and appropriate pedagogy. Retrieved from UNESCO: https://learningportal.iiep.unesco.org/en/issue-briefs/improve-learning/teachers-and-pedagogy/effective-and-appropriate-pedagogy

MAIMOONA AL ABRI, N. D. (2018). Open Educational Resources: A Literature Review. Journal of Mason Graduate Research, 83-104.

Rebecca (Beck) Pitt, K. J. (2020, May 25). Supporting open educational practices through open textbooks. Retrieved from Taylor Francis Online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01587919.2020.1757411

Wiley, D. (2018). Defining OER-Enabled Pedagogy. Retrieved from IRRODL: http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/3601