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OER for Faculties of Higher Education OER-Open Educational Resources provides wealth of educational resources across streams that can be shared used and reused. These resources are available both for teachers as well as students. It relates to the three A'S- Anytime, Anywhere and Anyone. The significance of this is beneficial to conventional, Dual mode and Open Universities. Private Universities can mine into this resources to design develop and access quality materials in their subject specialization. Where OER if well used, applying the creative commons(licencing) can develop into a viable Business model for institutions and faculties. The advantage of using OER is it can be tailor-made to each institutional requirements. These curated OERs are most sought after across the world, for their multiple perspectives as the richness of these materials are made available through experts. OER are part of formal and non formal systems. Hence these materials also have Pedagogical approach in their design which in the long run has contributed towards MOOC- that is the most relevant talk of the day in integrating today's curriculum. The providers of OER maybe individual or institutionalized, the exhaustive list of providers of OER for all discipline are available in the websites Presently, there is immense scope in attaching the institutions or universities to OERu (Open Educational Resources University). IGNOU is one such example where the details of their materials are available on their website: www.ignou.ac.in