OER as a useful tool in resource-based learning

Abstract

Open educational resources (OER) are materials that, together with an appropriate teaching methodology and the way they are used, have brought quality to higher education. This idea raised as a hypothesis of the premise in this theoretical essay about the educational benefit that could represent the use of these resources. This article seeks to demonstrate the importance of open educational resources as tools for the development of content in the classroom and the contextualization of relevant information on the subjects to be taught. In order to define their quality, their support within the curriculum and their use as pedagogical tools, it is necessary to know key concepts such as educational resources and open resources for an open education with open educational practices. A descriptive methodology has been used to know the tendencies of the participants about their reading habits. For this purpose, a small survey has been carried out with a universe of 72 people, teachers (27) and university students (45), with which it is intended to know the use of the educational resources they use and the difficulties to access to them. Finally, it can be concluded that, in order to promote critical thinking and participation in its future discursive communities, from the classrooms, it would be convenient to use these resources at this moment in history where it is necessary to offer reliable resources to develop criticality and the capacity to evaluate resources, given that we are in the information age and education has had a drastic turn from in classroom to virtuality.