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static and outdated Quality of the course would improve as it will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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