Introducing a Course on Open Educational Resources (OER) during Covid-19 to Empower Women Learners with Visual Impairment- Perceptions, Practices, and Potentials

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorSadruddin, Munir Moosa
dc.contributor.authorSewani, Salima
dc.coverage.placeNamePakistan
dc.coverage.spatialAsia
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-16T04:47:33Z
dc.date.available2022-08-16T04:47:33Z
dc.date.issued2022-09
dc.description.abstractPCF10 Sub-theme: Promoting Equity and Inclusion // This paper reflects on the potential of introducing an OER course to empower visually impaired female learners in Karachi, Pakistan, during COVID-19. Through a participatory action research approach, twenty female learners completed an adapted course titled ‘Understanding Open Educational Resources’, offered by the Commonwealth of Learning. For a hands-on experience, they later participated in various collaborative activities. Data was gathered through audio surveys, focus groups, and interviews, and analyzed thematically. Overall, the course empowered participants and shifted their dependencies to independencies. Participants were engaged in communities of practices, and took ownership to search, filter, and create/adapt open learning resources. The course has opened up new avenues for them to benefit their community members in innovative ways. It is proposed to introduce OER in national education policy to ensure educational accessibility among the disadvantaged population. // Paper ID 4005
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.56059/pcf10.4005
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11599/4219
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCommonwealth of Learning (COL)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
dc.subjectOpen Educational Resources (OER)
dc.subjectEmpowerment
dc.subjectInclusive Education
dc.subjectInclusion
dc.subjectResilience
dc.subjectAssistive Technologies
dc.titleIntroducing a Course on Open Educational Resources (OER) during Covid-19 to Empower Women Learners with Visual Impairment- Perceptions, Practices, and Potentials
dc.typeWorking Paper
dspace.entity.type
Files
Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
PCF10_Paper_4005.pdf
Size:
230.88 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
PDF
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.71 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download
Collections
10. Pan-Commonwealth Forum 10 (PCF10), 2022