Web-based OERs in Computer Networks

Learning and teaching processes are continually changing. Therefore, the design of learning technologies has gained the interest ofeducators and educational institutions from secondary school level to higher education. This paper describes the successful use ineducation of social learning technologies and virtual laboratories designed by the authors, as well as videos developed by thestudents. These tools, combined with other open educational resources that are based on a blended-learning methodology, havebeen employed to teach the subject of Computer Networks. We have not only verified that the application of Open EducationalResources (OERs) into the learning process leads to a significantly improvement of the assessments, but also that the combinationof several OERs enhances their effectiveness. These results are supported first by a study of both students’ opinion and students’behaviour over five academic years, and, secondly, by a correlation analysis between the use of OERs and the grades obtained bystudents.

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