Open Educational Resources in School Education and Role of Teachers

Abstract

Open Educational resources are gaining momentum. Teachers, librarians and students are finding feasible to access these resources for ease of use and free to copy, adopt and share. Librarians and the teachers are the facilitators of school students where students get the motivation and guidance to adopt new kind of resources. This study described school teachers’ perspectives on Open Educational Resources and its various aspects like their acquaintances, likes, dislikes usability, plan and program. This study observed that teachers are more and increasingly using the Open educational Resources. They are not only downloading the E-Books but also using it. Findings of this study will be useful for policy and decision makers, researchers and the open educational content developers.