Open Educational Resources in Higher Education

Abstract

This article deals with Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning, teaching and research materials in any format and medium that reside in the public domain or are under copyright that have been released under an open license, that permit no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution by others. Open Access has added to ease of accessibility of information and made it available taking copyrights into consideration as well. Indian OER Initiatives like NPTEL, CEC, E- PG Pathshala, NDLI, E-Gyankosh, SWAYAM and SWAYAMPRABHA, Shodhganga. The OER has gained momentum in Higher Education in India thus is very helpful in e-learning, a distant mode of learning. Various OER initiatives in India have greatly supported distant learning making it possible for students to access information sources at home rather than to visit in person the respective institution .