Chapter 4 - Harnessing open educational resources to help manage large classes

Rapid ICT development presents both opportunities and challenges for learners who face barriers to traditional means of delivering education, including those enrolled in increasingly large face-to-face classes. Digital systems are highly adaptable and flexible, and can be personalised to a wide variety of learning needs. Within this context, there is a significant potential role for effective use of ICT and the access it provides to Open Educational Resources (OER) and other openly licensed resources in helping to ameliorate the effects of growing student cohorts by rethinking the way in which teaching and learning is organised in environments where, increasingly, students have ubiquitous access to ICT devices and the connectivity necessary to access the Internet.