Open Educational Resources

G Santhosh KumarCochin University

With the internet, universal access to education is possible!

WHAT ARE OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES?

OERs

• Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license.

• The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them.

• OERs range from textbooks to curricula, syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, tests, projects, audio, video and animation

Beginning

• Free Software Movement (GNU Project) 1983• Dawn of the Net (1990s)• Search Engine (1997-98) Google• On-line encyclopedia proposed (2000)• Birth of Wikipedia (2001)• Creative Commons (2001)• Hewlett Foundation (2002) propose ICT for

increased access to education• OER Declaration (Paris 2012)

Free Software Movement

Free access to knowledge

“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing”

Removal of “Unfreedoms”

Development as Freedom, Knopf: New York, 1999

Mantra Behind OER

• World’s knowledge is a public good• Everyone has opportunity to share,

use, and reuse knowledge (through WWW)

• OER are the parts of that knowledge that comprise the fundamental components of education—content and tools for teaching, learning, and research

Openness and Education

• Why Openness in Education?• Education is all about sharing ( generous,

sharing and giving )• The 4Rs

• - Reuse, Redistribute, Revise and Remix

• Best teachers are the ones who share most thoroughly with the most of the students!

Indian Context

21 Jul 2009

NME-ICT

• National Mission on Education through ICT (2009)

• Aims to transform the education system, teachers and students

• Opportunity for all the teachers and experts to pool their collective wisdom for the benefit of every Indian learner

http://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/

Creative Commons

Play the infographics

Open Content License (OPL)The 5Rs are put forward on the OpenContent website as a framework for assessing the extent to which content is open:

• Retain - the right to make, own, and control copies of the content (e.g., download, duplicate, store, and manage)

• Reuse - the right to use the content in a wide range of ways (e.g., in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a video)

• Revise - the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another language)

• Remix - the right to combine the original or revised content with other open content to create something new (e.g., incorporate the content into a mashup)

• Redistribute - the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of the content to a friend

https://www.oercommons.org/

http://eol.org/

Open Books

Redefining the Textbooks

http://epathshala.nic.in/e-pathshala-4/flipbook/

https://books.google.com/?hl=en

More Books

• AUPress• NCERT• Google Books

Open Data

http://www.opendoar.org/find.php

https://www.openaire.eu/

https://zenodo.org/

Open Library

Open Access Journals

• journals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access

• right of users to "read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles"

https://www.plos.org/

Journal Archival Systems

Thesis Databases

Institutional Repositories

Open Courseware

MOOCMassively Open Online Course

MOOC and Online Education Platforms

• Udacity (independent)• Coursera (33 universities)• EdX (4 universities)

MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, UT

• 2U• Google Course Builder• Stanford’s Class2Go• Udemy

OpenEdx Platform

Case Study : coursera.org

• Public Knowledge Project – https://pkp.sfu.ca/

http://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in

Education@Cloud

              Apps for Education

Demo of Google Apps

Conclusion