The place of school libraries in facilitating virtual access to open educational resources for teaching and learning in schools

Abstract

The advent of technological revolution and the fourth industrial revolution era coupled with the disruptions brough about by the COVID-19 pandemic had led to a paradigm shift in the process of education and related services delivery in schools globally. There has been a shift in the teaching and learning process as well as other complimentary and supplementary services to support qualitative delivery of teaching and learning process including service delivery. Consequently, teaching and learning moved out of the four walls of classroom to online and virtual spaces supported by open educational resources (OERs). With the OERs and virtual learning, it is imperative that libraries too must develop strategies to ensure virtual access to open educational resources. Virtual access to OERs by school libraries could come handy to fill the gaps brought about by disruptions resulting from technological revolution, the fourth industrial revolution era and COVID-19 pandemic. This write-up, therefore, focused on identifying and highlighting the place of school libraries in facilitating virtual access to open educational resources for teaching and learning process in Nigerian schools with specific focus means of accessing and strategies of accessing the OERs.