Use of open educational resources (oer)

benefits for students and teachers. The Portuguese open access repository

Abstract

Open Educational Resources (OER) have been used all over the world by Universities with the purpose of sharing knowledge with those who seek it, and often developing as an objective for social issues. Its production is becoming a common procedure by teachers, in a way to both involve students and to transform a certain reality of the teaching-learning process into a more inclusive one. The use of free digital pedagogical material gives the teacher the possibility of adapting those objects to the many different contexts of the learning process, according to the students’ level, styles and specific needs. The choice for the use of OER, closely associated to the Open Access Movement (OAM), allows establishing an innovative methodology in the teaching-learning process, a technological solution that potentiates the use of the new information and communication technologies (ICT).