Open Educational Resources: Development and Challenges for India

Open Educational Resources: Development and Challenges for India

Ramesh SharmaIndira Gandhi National Open University

February 01, 2013

Connecting Online for Instruction and Learning

What are…

Open Things…

• Open Access• Open Content• Open Course ware• Open Source Software• Open Education / e-Learning• Open Educational Resources

• …and many more things

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What is an OER?

The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) defines Open Educational Resources (OER) as ‘materials offered freely and openly to use and adapt for teaching, learning, development and research’.

http://www.col.org/resources/crsMaterials/Pages/OCW-OER.aspx

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student or self-learner. Examples of OER include: full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab and classroom activities, pedagogical materials, games, simulations, and many more resources contained in digital media collections from around the world.

OER Commons

http://www.oercommons.org/

OER defined:

OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.

- The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Open Educational Resources

free and openly licensed educational materials that can be used for • teaching, • learning, • research, and • other purposes.

The term was first used at a UNESCO conference in 2002, although OERs were being produced and used before that time. For instance, the MIT OpenCourseWare project, which began in 2001, was one of the first major initiatives of the OER movement.

Types of Open Educational Resources

• Courses• Course materials • Content modules • Learning objects • Collections, and • Journals

http://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/tag/open-content/

open content / open practices

Course Related OER Materials

Benefits

Open Educational Resources in India

Development

A-VIEW

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)

Open Educational Resources for Schools (OER4S)

http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/research-development/projects/open-educational-resources-for-schools-oer4s

National Knowledge CommissionGovt. of India

http://knowledgecommission.gov.in/focus/default.asp

National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)

http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/index.php

The National Institute of Open Schooling

http://oer.nios.ac.in/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

SAKSHAT

http://www.sakshat.ac.in/

National Council of Educational Research and Training

http://www.ncert.nic.in/index.html

Online Post Graduate Diploma in E-Learning (PGDEL) Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)

http://pgdel.ignouonline.ac.in/pgdel/aboutthepgdel.html

eGyanKosh

http://www.egyankosh.ac.in/

FlexiLearn Indira Gandhi National Open University

http://www.ignouflexilearn.ac.in/flexilearn/

Challenges

http://wikieducator.org/images/d/d7/PID_386.pdf

http://knowledgecommission.gov.in/downloads/documents/wg_open_course.pdf

OER Foundation

WikiEducator

http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page

WikiEducator - India

http://wikieducator.org/India

Thank You !