Learning Resources

A teacher’s main purpose is to help learners to learn. Learning resources are meant to help
communicate information. Learning resources are required for effective teaching of subject. They
help the teachers to communicate with the learners in more effective and desirable way. They
help the teacher to in achieving the objectives efficiently and effectively. They provide a sensory
experience by which intellectual aspect of the learners are developed. They help in bringing
concept in front of the learners clearly and precisely. Use of Learning resources brings the variety
in instruction making teaching-learning process interactive. They serve many roles in
instructions. The most common use of the Learning resources in instructional situations is to
support the teachers for effective teaching. This is why Learning resources are also called
instructional aids or instructional materials. Most of the Learning resources are sensory and their
functions are to make teaching concrete, effective and interesting.

They help the teachers to clarify, establish and coordinate accurate concepts and enable them to
make teaching-learning more concrete and effective. Learning resources are the tools that
teachers use them in the classroom and also help learners to improve reading and other skills.
Learning resources are those materials which are helpful in improving the quality of teaching-
learning process. Learning resources are devices or procedures that help to make learning more
interesting and more effective. These resources help in completing the triangular process of
learning, viz. motivation, classification and simulation.

Learning resources are the devices presenting the content knowledge through auditory or visual
stimulus and responses or both to help learning efficiently. They serve as stimuli to learning, help
in better understanding of the concept and realization of the objectives of teaching. They provide
significant aims in informational learning, retention, recall, thinking, reasoning and personal
growth and development. Therefore, we can say that, Learning resources are those devices which
can be used to make the learning more concrete, more realistic and more dynamic.
 According to Kinder S. James, “Learning resources are any device which can be used to
make the learning experience more concrete, more realistic and more dynamic.”
 According to Dent, “Learning resources refer to all materials used in the classroom or in
other teaching situations to facilitate the understanding of the written and spoken word.”
Purposes of using Learning Resources:

 To increase the skills of the teachers to conduct teaching-learning process efficiently.

 To always active the learners in the classroom.
 To help the learners according to their abilities.
 To develop the mechanism of lesson plan.
 To create interest about the subject matter among the learners.
 To make the learners a good observer.
 To supplement and enrich teachers own teaching to make teaching-learning more
concrete.
 To serve an instructional role in itself. ·
 To make teaching as an effective process.
 To accelerate learner-centered learning.
 To represent the subject matter in easy, simple and attractive way.
 To help learners to develop the abilities of imagination.
 To impart practical knowledge.
 To increase the capacity of the learners.

Characteristics of Learning Resources:

 Learning resource splay an important role in teaching-learning process.
 They lead the teaching-learning process in right direction.
 They always based on the subject matter.
 They always prepared according to the level of the learners.
 They are accurate and realistic.
 They create readiness for learning experience in a learner.
 They can meet individual demands.
 They are helpful in new learning.
 They help in saving energy and time of both the teachers and learners.

Basic criteria for effective Learning Resources:

 They must be simple.
 They should be meaningful and purposeful for learning.
  They should be accurate in terms of effectiveness.
 They must supply a concrete basis for conceptual thinking.
 They should be inexpensive.
 They should be up to date.
 They should be easily portable.
 They must provide sensory experience.
 They should be according to the mental level of the learners.
 They should be motivating the learners.

Needs of Learning resources in teaching:

 They arouse curiosity among learners.

 They lead to learners from concrete to abstract.
 They help the learners to gather experiences about the subject matter.
 They help to present mathematical concepts simply and clearly.
 They help to use different teaching methods efficiently.
 They make the teaching meaningful and learners more active in the classroom.
 They develop the power of observation of learners.
 They make the learning long lasting.
 They build the power of logical thinking among learners.
 They help to accumulate the direct experience about the subject matters.
 They support the learners for language development.
 They help the teachers in getting the attention of the learners.
 They help the learners in understanding some complicated problems related to subjects.
 They provide an opportunity to change monotonous atmosphere in the classroom.
 It offers the learners to develop communication skills in solving problems.

Importance of Learning resources in teaching:

 They help in creating and maintaining interest in the learning of particular subject.
 Learning resources promote self-learning and constructiveness in the learners.
 They can make a bridge in between previous knowledge and new knowledge.
 Teachers describe different abstract concept of subject matter easily.
 They help the learners to achieve learning objectives more efficiently and effectively.
 They help to increase the vocabulary of the learners.
 They help to bring clarity in the subject matter.
 They help the teachers to overcome physical difficulties of presenting subject matters.
 They inculcate scientific attitude among learners.
 They save both energy and time of the teachers.
 They help in achieving desired behavioral outcomes.
 They provide democratic approach to learning.
 They provide a concrete basis for conceptual thinking.
 They help to develop continuity in thought.
 They promote self-learning and constructiveness in the learners.