Commonwealth Educational

Media Centre for Asia

Understanding Open

Educational Resources

Sanjaya Mishra

Education Specialist, eLearning, COL

Principal Investigator, ROER4D

A Childhood riddle…

What is it that does not

get reduced after sharing

with someone else?

KNOWLEDGE

Role of Teachers

What teachers do?

– Explain

– Interpret

– Guide

– Share

– Write

– Counselling

– Assessing

– Facilitate

– Any other?

What you do?

Knowledge Commons

Who owns knowledge?

Researcher stands on the shoulder of giants

Previous research is necessary for new

research

Knowledge is Free – Information is not.

Data Information Knowledge

Knowledge Resources Formats

Books

Periodicals

A/V Media

Online Web Resources

– Text

– Audio

– Video

– Graphics

– Animation

Learning

Objects

Open…

Learning

Education

Access

Science

Data

Content

Source

Government

Educational Resources

OER: 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

OER: Definition

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.

What is “Open”?

It’s about open license used to share

educational material

Reuse

Revise

Remix

Redistribute

Retain

No permission required as long as the open

license is respected

Defining the "Open" in Open Content 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)

http://www.opencontent.org/definition/

Technology and Platforms

Wikipedia, Wikieducator, Wikivarsity

Wikispaces, etc.

Connexions

MIT OpenCourseware

OLI-CMU

FlexiLearn

OpenLearn

OER Commons

Directory of OER

OER Paris Declaration 2012:

Recommendations related to

Government Promote awareness and use of OER

Bridge digital divide by developing infrastructure (broadband, mobile, electricity)

Develop national policy for OER

Promote use of Open licencing frameworks

Support capacity building initiatives on OER

Encourage and support research on OER

Adopt open standards and technologies for interoperability

Encourage open license for materials produced using public funds

OER Paris Declaration 2012:

Recommendations related to

Institutions Promote awareness and use of OER

Improve media and information literacy

Develop institutional policies for OER

Educate stakeholders on open licenses and copyright

Promote quality assurance and peer review of OER

Develop strategic partnerships to avoid duplication of work as well as technologies

Encourage and support research on OER

Develop tools to facilitate access to OER

OER Paris Declaration 2012:

Recommendations related to

Teachers Promote awareness and use of OER

Develop and use OER

Engage in peer review of OER

Promote quality of OER

Develop OER in local languages

Contextualize OER

Conduct research on OER

Share learning materials prepared

THANK YOU