The reading about Open Educational Resources gives me a new, critical view about pedagogy. Pedagogy is not the same thing with teaching in high school, we are not only facing those full-time students, but also some people who are facing the chanllenge on time, place or finance and still choose to study.

 

In the situation discussed in the third reading “Design principles for Indigenous Learning Spaces”, OER plays an important role on education to Indigenous community. Use of OER reduce the cost for Aboriginal people. OER can replace the textbooks, and more importantly, it reduce the cost on labour resources. That can also reduce the cost of government, when they are bothering about the dispatch of labour force to support the education of Indigenous community.

 

Open education can be a good style of education for Aboriginal people. As mentioned in the third reading, group working put them work together and learn from each other, hence break the spatial barrier. In addition, open learning gives them an opportunity to communicate with people outside their hometown. They can discuss with people who have different cultural background, life experience and logic of thinking, and Aboriginal people can learn more from those people than people who grow up in the same environment with them.

 

But Open education is not the absolutely right way of education for Aboriginal people. It is obvious that people will learn much when they participate in the discussion, but what will happen if they cannot follow the discussion because of their limit on knowledge?  If people are still a beginner of internet, how can they find the appropriate resources for their study  if the course is completely open? To solve these problem, one of the way is provide them a platform, where most of the resources they need have been sorted out. This is more likely to be distributed learning.