Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion A and the other as Reason R. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.

Assertion (A):Open Educational Resources are available for free.

Reason (R):The basic philosophy behind OERs is to provide freely accessible, openly licensed text and media useful for teaching and learning.

ABoth A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A ✓ Correct

BBoth A and R are correct but R is not the correct explanation of A

CA is correct but R is not correct

DA is not correct but R is correct

Correct answer: (A) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A

Explanation

Open Educational Resources are indeed available for free, so Assertion A is correct.

The basic philosophy of OERs is to provide freely accessible, openly licensed teaching-learning material, so Reason R is correct.

R correctly explains A because the free availability directly follows from the open-access, open-licence philosophy.

OERs are not merely low-cost or restricted-preview material, which would contradict their free and open nature.

The term Open Educational Resources was coined at a UNESCO forum in 2002.

Common open licences such as Creative Commons permit reuse, revision and redistribution.

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