OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT: THREATS AND OPPORTUNITIES

Abstract

Systems of education are being simultaneously changed by both internal and external factors, with their modeling being far back than real-time challenges. Such a contradiction could be smoothened by making use of e-Environment to balance old-fashioned techniques and methods against crucial standards for knowledge and skills to be obtained and transformed into competences. Considering the blurred boundaries between traditional education and e-learning, it is essential that both threats and opportunities should be analyzed to find the most efficient ways for high educational performance with quality education possible. Thus, a strategic planning for refining the most efficient and productive models of teaching, learning, tutoring, coaching and mentoring is a vital part of future success. Quality education is ensured under e-Environment with freedom of choice and an egalitarian access to unlimited diversified open resources, for it facilitates personal and personality development when making a choice is the only factor that matters. The paper studies the advantages and disadvantages, threats and opportunities of OER development. The study analyses quality education ensured by open educational resources development, since OER are connected with an egalitarian access to unlimited information, which can benefit to the process of personality formation through realization of abilities, capabilities, wants and needs and sharing diversified experience to make this educational personality transformation the most efficient. Open educational resources provide with the ability to interpret the diversity which is literally the creation of personal realization of the variability of the modern world.