Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia
Open Educational Resources and eLearningIndian Experiences
Sanjaya MishraDirector, Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia
Structure of the Presentation
• Contexts• Personal Experiences• Challenges• Possibilities and Future
Enabling Environment
National IT Task-Force Recommendation (1998)
National Mission on Education through ICT (2009)
eLearning Scenario
NetVarsity, 1996 IGNOU, 1999 Tamil Virtual
University, 2000 IIM, Bangalore
2002/3 NPTEL, 2007 NMEICT, 2009
R & D for Online Learning
Instructional design model for Web environment
A generic model of ID – ERIC that can be applied to online learning
OER-based eLearning Online programme on
eLearning Intensive with F2F
component for skill training
Covers instructional design theory and practice
Total online course development experience, with mentoring
OER-based content reviewed by experts
Open Educational Resources
teaching, learning and research materials in any medium, digital or otherwise, that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions. Open licensing is built within the existing framework of intellectual property rights as defined by relevant international conventions and respects the authorship of the work
History and Developments
MIT OpenCourseWare, 2001 UNESCO Forum on the Impact of Open
Courseware for Higher Education in Developing Countries, 2002
OLI-CMU, 2002 OER Paris Declaration 2012
What is “Open”?
It’s about open license used to share educational material
Reuse Revise Remix Redistribute No permission required as long as the
open license is respected
OER use Case Study 1• SLM Development,
2008• Sanjaya Mishra
trained 20 individuals to write self-learning materials
• Used weekly reading and GoogleGroup
• Wiki-based Tasks to develop SLM using wiki
• Learning contract, certification, online activities, visible outputs
OER use Case Study 2
• Bangladesh Open School, SLM Training
• F2F and Online training
• Development of Units
• Collaborative course Development
Advantages of Wiki-based OER
Updating and revision of courses become easy Learner participation in course, and their
engagement will improve Some of the user generated content may be useful
in revision Courses will become live and dynamic rather than
static and outdated Quality of the course would improve as it will
adhere to copyright regulations (as it will be open) Open content licensing policy can be adopted Courses can be developed fast using OER
Advantages of Wiki-based OER
Print copies can be developed automatically using PediaPress PDF server
Print-on-demand facility can be used Less paper use, and digital preservation of content
with each editing recorded Resources other than main text can also be
integrated including Slideshare, YouTube, MindMap, Google Calender, etc.
Online quiz, and self-assessment activities can be in-built within the learning material
Discussion Forum can be built around lessons
Integrating LMS and Wiki
Use wiki to develop open courses Educational transaction happen within
Learning Management System Integrate multiple media to provide
multi-channel learning Learning as service, content as product,
certification as quality assurance
Challenges Growing demands for higher education Assuring Quality of mass individualized
instruction Capacity building of teachers Meeting the needs of NEW learner
(digital natives) Reducing Digital Divide by NKN Oral content to Digital Content creation Rethinking Assessment and evaluation
Possibilities and Future
Bandwidth problem reduced… IP6 and Internet 2 coming up
Teacher Empowerment by Read-Write Web
Culture of sharing and transparency Collaborative Learning, Mastery
Learning, Just in Time Learning possible Increased quality of educational
transaction Value for money – for the students, for
the parents and for the Govt.
CEMCA’s engagement Developing a course on OER-based
eLearning to promote capacity building of teachers
Promoting the concept of Virtual Open Schooling
Encouraging integration of ICT in teacher education
Developing vocational courses on need-based areas for release as OER
Offering scholarships to women teachers to study eLearning
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