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In teacher education also, educational resources were developed collaboratively by a programme for Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa and published on http://www.tessafrica.net. These are some of the early initiatives in OERs; now many more OERs are available across the world teaching and learning.  In India, National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) (http://nptel.iitk.ac.in) and IGNOU have offered many of the courses as Open Educational Resources.

In teacher education also, educational resources were developed collaboratively by a programme for Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa and published on http://www.tessafrica.net. These are some of the early initiatives in OERs; now many more OERs are available across the world teaching and learning.  In India, National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) (http://nptel.iitk.ac.in) and IGNOU have offered many of the courses as Open Educational Resources.

= Kinds of OERs =

== Kinds of OERs ==

There are different kinds of  OERs: - Sharing already created academic  content for free  www.khanacademy.org; www.tessafrica.net  - - Structuring free course materials and courses – like  www.nroer.metastudio.org; ; www.edx.org; www.coursera.org ; www.nptel.iitk.ac.in - Collaborate and creating materials - www.wikipedia.org The Karnataka Open Educational Resources (KOER) project is a project of DSERT Karnataka to enable and support teachers to collaborate and create educational resources and share with all.

There are different kinds of  OERs: - Sharing already created academic  content for free  www.khanacademy.org; www.tessafrica.net  - - Structuring free course materials and courses – like  www.nroer.metastudio.org; ; www.edx.org; www.coursera.org ; www.nptel.iitk.ac.in - Collaborate and creating materials - www.wikipedia.org The Karnataka Open Educational Resources (KOER) project is a project of DSERT Karnataka to enable and support teachers to collaborate and create educational resources and share with all.

= Principles of OERs =

== Principles of OERs ==

Open Educational Resources are those resources that allow the following four kinds of freedoms to learners/ users.  These “Freedoms” are as follows:

Open Educational Resources are those resources that allow the following four kinds of freedoms to learners/ users.  These “Freedoms” are as follows:

# Resources can be accessed for free, used and 're-used'

# Resources can be accessed for free, used and 're-used'