Abstract:
Over the last several years, "openness " has emerged as an important trend in education Open educational resources (OER) are freely accessible and openly licensed documents are available either in licensed under an open copyright license or in the public domain OER services promise to provide a higher level of educational materials and innovative educational services for the openness in education. ICT becomes more affordable and internet access seems increasingly everywhere is the important reason for this development. The primary aim of this paper is to develop the working prototype of an OER portal service, by developing a metadata repository engine and a web portal front-end The OER portal service is focused on connecting the students and staffs of the Sri Lankan Universities through the web portal and the resources are based on the higher education curriculum. Sri Lankan University students feel some barriers when they use worldwide OER services such as inconsistent unavailability of local language materials, and difficult to search for the correct materials which suitable to their curriculum. An OER portal service is therefore, developed for promoting the use of OER across our country's higher educational institutions md resolving the problems that the students faced in using the available OER services. Currently, there is no Sri Lankan higher education curriculum based OER services available to help the students and staff or their learning and teaching process. This OER web portal is a good place to find, create, share and publish open resources and software. It provides a friendly search engine to open educational resources from metadata repository with subject and description listings. It also offers social network features, live stream lectures and student online conference, online broadcasting and live events
