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Every child deserves access to quality education. This is emboldened in the

mission of the Department of Education (DepEd) to protect and promote the right
of every Filipino to quality, equitable, culture based, and complete basic
education where students learn in a child-friendly, gender-sensitive, safe, and
motivating environment, and teachers facilitate learning and constantly nurture
every learner.
Quality education need not be expensive. Teachers can find a way to facilitate
learning and be unwavering in their pursuit to nurture each learner. Yet the
reality of textbooks and other printed materials increasing in price hurts the
students’ learning. There are studies and articles citing that families have to
choose between buying textbooks or to feed their family and pay bills.1 With this
urgent and very real concern, there is a high risk of students performing poorly
and having low rates of completion of their basic education.

WHAT IS OER?
OER refers to free and/or available educational materials that comes with the
permission for anyone to use, modify, or share. The William and Flora Hewlett
Foundation provides the following definition of OER: “Open Educational
Resources are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital
or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an
open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by
others with no or limited restrictions.”

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OER may include a lesson plan, a single video, a song, to a complete online course
or curriculum and may also include the software platforms needed to create,
change, and share the created materials.
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Go back to the DepEd Vision & Mission

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For an education resource or material to be open, it must satisfy the 5R Activities
of OER. An open license permits users of a resource to participate in the 5R
activities of OER:
1. Retain: Make, own, and control your own copy of the content
2. Reuse: Use the content as-is
3. Revise: Adapt, adjust, modify, improve, or alter the content
4. Remix: Combine the original or revised content with other OER to create
something new
5. Redistribute: Share your copies of the original content, revisions or remixes
with others

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OER started when Sir Mark Anthony C. SY, Head of Edtech Unit. He trained 10
teachers and 2 of his colleagues in the ICTS Unit of the Central Office to spread
the OER advocacy nationwide with the help of UNDP. OER is the first offshoot
project of the digital rise program in providing quality, accessible, relevant, &
liberating education. This is under the leadership of Usec. Alain Pascua and ICTS
Director Abram Abanel.

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With continued commitment to provide teaching development programs to
teachers. Hundred to thousands of teachers were trained nationwide since 2019
under OER Programs
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Teachers have a wide variety of material to draw and build upon for their own
classes without having to start from scratch and are allowed to collaborate with
colleagues from different parts of the country and even the world.

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1. Kiwix – This is the offline version of the original Wikipedia 2016 which is not
editable. (Wikivoyage, Wikispecies, Wiktionary, Wiki for Schools and Business,
etc.)
2. KA Lite – This is the offline version of Khan Academy which supports subjects in
English, Arts and Humanities, Sciences, and Math.
3. FTP Version – The offline version of Raspberry Pi-Rachel which includes
numerous OER materials to support different learners in all ages.
4. Kolibri – This is a Python-enabled software which houses numerous OER
materials. The software enables any teacher to conduct wireless classes even if
there is no internet connection.
5. Moodle – This is an open-source Learning Management System that allows
offline assessment evaluation with the use of host server component like the
Kolibri.
6. CourseLab 2.4 – An open-source e-learning creation software that creates any
flat learning resources responsive in real-time. It has multimedia object elements
that can support any learning environment.
7. Wondershare Quiz Creator – A quizzing application that creates interactive
responsive quizzes/assessment that is teacher-friendly.
 As the project goes on and many teachers gain the skills to use, create, remix,
and redistribute materials, the tools and the OER’s may increase exponentially
and bring about revolutionary change in the teaching-learning process.