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PICTURE

LANDSCAPE

OER into the self-instructional materials of the framework for action on Sustainable
the university. Consequently, since 2014, Development Goal 4: ‘Ensure inclusive and
the OUSL took the initiative of promoting the quality education for all and promote lifelong
development of OER and sharing them with learning’.
the global community in view of expanding
access to education, widening the distribution Accordingly, the university adopted its first
of high-quality educational resources, and OER policy in the year 2014, which has been
reducing barriers to learning opportunities since updated in the year 2020. The purpose
and opening lifelong learning opportunities of this policy is to provide direction, guidance,
for all. As of today, twenty-seven (27) and advocacy in internalizing OER adoption,
resources in the areas of Chemistry, Botany, adaptation, creation, and integration using
Zoology, Pure Mathematics, Physics, Remote the open license in the OUSL learning
Sensing and Medical Sciences have been resources and provide the direction to follow
published as OER by the OUSL under the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) of
CC BY-SA license. These resources could the OUSL pertaining to course design and
be accessed at the OUSL library website. development.
This initiative has been taken in line with

The Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL)