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Role of Open Educational Resources in Ensuring Inclusive Education in Bangladesh
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Assistant Professor (Finance and Banking) Bangladesh Open University Abstract Open Educational Resources (OER) have the potentiality to create a new avenue of learning by removing the barriers of copyright issue. In OER, copyright have been released under an open license, which permit no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution by others resulting in inclusive education. The aim of this study is to find out the role of OER in widening participation and promoting social inclusion within Bangladesh’s higher education, as well as the benefits that OER could bring to that context. This study employed a mixed methods research design to perform its investigation. Survey questionnaire has been used for quantitative purpose while focus group discussion has been used for qualitative purpose. In survey questionnaire 110 university going students have been participated according to simple random sampling while 6 students have been selected for focus group discussion according to purposive sampling. The findings of the study reveal that most of the learners agreed that OER has performance, openness, access, retention, reflection and economic role which enables inclusive education in Bangladesh. According to the survey questionnaire and focus group discussion it is found that with the help of OER students get financial, accessibility, autonomy, collaborative learning, customization benefits which ultimately ensures inclusive education. Although there exists some misconception and lack of awareness about OER among the stakeholders of education, proper use of OER should be monitored to ensure inclusive education in Bangladesh.
PCF11 Sub-Theme: Changing Mindsets for Inclusive Open Education
Paper ID: 3106
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Bangladesh
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Asia
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2025-09
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Commonwealth of Learning (COL)