Blogging for creation of Open Education Resources – 5R’s perspective
Abstract: The concept of Open Educational Resources (OER) was conceived in 2002 by UNESCO forum and used extensively since then. Many efforts have been made to integrate OERs in the higher education in general and distance mode programmes in particular across the globe. Patel (2015) makes a meta-analysis of use of OER in Asian countries, and finds that India is no exception, and elucidates that it is far ahead in OER usage for educational purposes. The efforts in use of OER requires training of educators, course writers, course designers working in the area of distance education and awareness creation of learners regarding various OERs. MHRD (2016) website gives an information about existence of 677 universities in India in 2014, which includes one national, 13 state uni-modal and 194 bimodal universities listed on the DEB website (2016) that are facilitating distance education. But, practically to our surprise, dismay, we find that only few of these distance education universities/dep