Role of Open Education and Cultural Sharing
Open education is essentially a concept, a practice, and a movement with the primary goal of increasing education for everyone’s accessibility, inclusivity, and effectiveness. Sharing resources, open content, pedagogical techniques, and resources that others can use or reuse is one of its key functions. Using digital technology, open education, in my opinion, is education that removes barriers globally, is available to everyone, and is unrestricted by any kind of barrier, whether financial, technological, or legal ones. In spite of this, open education is very important to me. In the same way, it may always make any kind of resources and content available.
In my personal life, I place more value on open education. It is increasingly significant in our daily lives. It aids in my ability to work with the institutions. For instance, when I was in India and enrolled in a six-month accounting programme at Lovely Professional University, open education enabled me to collaborate with university materials and information online for no charge. Even so, it is a free, convenient way for me to evaluate a variety of course assignments, due dates, and materials. Even still, I have to share the online resources with people who are unable to purchase books or other items online.
I believe it has a favorable effect on my professional life. It plays very significant role in teaching and sharing resources online. Teachers can independently share their resources. It is scalable in the sense that it can be freely distributed to everyone. However, it helps to reduce the financial burden that students feel while buying textbooks and paper copies of textbooks. According to me, it is the role of the educator to share their internet resources, materials, and information with their students. As a result, they are able to collaborate and assess at will wherever in the world.
During a pandemic, however, I would prefer to share my lectures, as well as resources and presentations, with my students online. Schools were shut down during the time. The student’s education was a worldwide concern. I was able to share my resources as part of an open education with the aid of zoon meetings. In spite of this, it benefits the pupils. While in class, students are more engaged and like listening to lectures. They become more intelligent and inventive with technology as a result. They are unable to share resources online or conduct screen shares. They become more aware of it and enjoy it more when open education occurs in their lives.
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Shelly Sharma 