What is Educational Materials

Teaching is considered is one of the most noblest profession in the world, most especially to those teachers who are working in public school were in materials are only limited. As a teacher in a public school you will learn to adopt, improvised, and most of all your will learn to be creative in delivering your lesson in the absence of the teaching materials, from teachers guide down to the smallest details of students materials known in our educational system as TG and LM.

As a teacher that has a small technical know how in the field of ICT, I want to share every materials that I've gain in the different seminars and workshops i have attended, and every materials i have acquired to the season teachers i have encountered in their long career of teaching.

These materials that i will provide are the output of the different teachers in their field of expertise developed and formulated to deliver their lesson with accuracy and precise technicality so that learners of various skills and diversity will be able to grasp and understand the delivery. 

Now what do you mean by Educational Materials?

According to Iiyoshi and Kumar 2008, 149) The field of educational materials (EM) refers to a subset of the book, games, Internet, and software publishing industries that is focused on providing resources to a variety of educational market segments. For instance, PricewaterhouseCoopers characterizes the EM sector as divided into digital and non-digital solutions (Cola, et al. 2009). At the K-12 educational level, digital solutions include a range of technologies used to enhance the delivery and the administration of K-12 education, including data management systems, web-based course and assessment materials, and online tutoring and professional development—however, we will only focus on those digital solutions products that have specific educational purposes and where knowledge is embedded in a form that can be enclosed by some form of intellectual property. Regarding non-digital solutions, we include textbooks, course packs and other supplementary materials, and various educative toys and games.

Actors providing these materials are private companies such as publishers controlling the textbook and complementary materials markets; global media companies focused on the family-based market, such as the Discovery Channel; public institutions, such as National Public Radio; universities and their presses, providing both closed and open educational materials; and independent organizations and associations comprising educators and interested individuals wanting to contribute to the open educational resources movement.

"A significant feature of most educational resources is that they are restricted to many and can cost a lot to gain access to. This is largely because of a market economy around educational resources. They are copyrighted and packaged up as objects—books, journals, videos—that have to be bought from a store or accessed through course fees or university repositories (libraries in most cases). Even if this copyrighted material is available in public libraries, it is then effectively rationed by the numbers of copies available and the costs and opportunity costs involved in people traveling to the library to use them (with that use being further restricted by the all rights reserved copyright applied to them.