OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES IN INDIA FOR TEACHING-LEARNING – A UTILIZATION PERSPECTIVE WITH REFERENCE TO THE FACULTIES OF ARTS AND SCIENCE COLLEGES IN PUDUCHERRY

The study explores the use of open educational resources for teaching-learning by the faculties working in arts and science colleges in Puducherry. A survey was conducted in ten such colleges to obtain the opinion of 143 faculties towards this direction through a structured questionnaire. The study revealed that majority of the respondents made use of open educational resources generally for teaching-learning. In particular, the OERs such as NPTEL, CEC, ePGPathsala, and eGyanKosh were found to be the mostly used open educational resources. Contrastingly, the resources such as OSCAR, NSDL, and Rai Open Courseware were found to be least used. The similar observations were noticed on the opinion of enhancing teaching-learning skills of the faculties by using open educational resources. Encouragingly, the faculties of selected arts and science colleges in Puducherry used OERs for academic and research purposes significantly. However, a few problems like Slow speed of Internet, Nonavailability of Manuals, Lack of up-to-date information, Lack of subject coverage, Lack of user friendliness, etc were found to be major issues associated with the use of open educational resources