Educational Technology @ Distance & Open EducationDr.C.Karthik DeepaAssistant ProfessorDepartment of EducationAvinashilingam Institute for Home Science And Higher Education for WomenCoimbatorecherrydeepa@gmail.com9976131831

Distance Education

Distance education•Distance

education or distance learning is the education of students who are not physically present at a school. Courses that are conducted partly through distance education and partly on-site are referred to as hybrid or blended education.

Features of Distance Education•E-Resources •Online Exams•Online Practical•Virtual Classes•Webminars•E-Libraries•Any time any

where

•Open education encompasses▫ resources▫ tools and ▫practices ▫that employ a framework of

open sharing▫ to improve educational

access and ▫effectiveness worldwide.

Open Education

OER

Used by UNESCO in 2002Openness in Higher Education – free to use &

reuse Includes - Open Source Software (OSS)

- Open Access (OA)Free availability over InternetNo Technical barriers , No Price barriers, A few Legal permission barriers

OER - Includes•Full Course •Courseware •Content Modules •Learning objects•JournalsLearning Content

•Software•Searching & organization of content•On – line learning

Tools

•Intellectual property licenses•Design principles•Localization of content

Implementation Resources

Open Education combines•traditions of knowledge

sharing and creation with 21st century technology ▫to create a vast pool of

openly shared educational resources

•collaborative spirit to develop educational approaches that are more responsive to learner’s needs.

Massive Open Online Course (MOOC )

• an online course • unlimited participation and open access via the web• traditional course materials such as filmed lectures,

readings, and problem sets + • interactive user forums to support community

interactions between students, professors, and teaching assistants (TAs).

• recent and widely researched development in distance education

• first introduced in 2008 and emerged as a popular mode of learning in 2012

Digital library• Collection of digital objects

-text, visual material, audio material, video material, stored as electronic media formats (as opposed to print, microform, or other media), along with means for organizing, storing, and retrieving the files and media contained in the library collection.