BRIDGING THE GAP: OER FOR INCREASING ACCESS, OPENNESS

AND PERFORMANCEOrganized by

Department of Education,Department of Computer Science &

Department of Information Technology10th March,2016Ramesh Sharma

Learning Objects

http://www.itdl.org/journal/sep_04/article02.htm

Learning

Education

Access

ScienceData

Source

Govt

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Affordances of the Internet

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Available to other faculties, students and institutions.

Other educators can now discover and reuse.

Learning activity or resource

Creates

Designated as OER on web

Adapted from Conole, G., McAndrew, P. & Dimitriadis, Y., 2010

Shares with studentsand other faculty

Traditional sharing of teaching materials

Sharing educational resources as OER

Additional considerations:• Clearing of copyright issues• Formatting for web and accessibility for

reuse• Addition of descriptive metadata• Publishing in repository, referatory

or on the webEducator

…sharing beyond the classroom

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Defining an OER

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

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OER World Map

Technology and Platforms

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

Qingdao Declaration 2015

OER and Open Solutions …

Recommendations on Open Educational Resources

Department Of Electronics & Information Technology, Government Of India

http://www.sakshat.ac.in/Document/OER_Policy.pdf

'Darakht-e danesh' means "knowledge tree"

Open CoursewareVirtual University of Pakistan

OER PORTAL OF UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI

National Repository of OER

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Alternative copyright Licensing

Strategies…

Open Educational Practice (OEP) A characteristic of Open

Educational Practice, compared with conventional forms of professional practice, is that it changes the nature of relationships…

http://littlebylittlejohn.com/do-oer-funded-initiatives-impact-professional-practice/

- Allison Littlejohn, Lou McGill, Isobel Falconer, Jay Dempster

What this change is?• Between academics and support staff (as people work in

multi-disciplinary teams, sharing areas of expertise);• Amongst academics (as teaching practice shifts from

individual practice to cross-institutional and inter-institutional collaboration);

• Between academics and students (as teachers and learners (who may not be registered with a university) interact in new ways);

• Between academics and organisations {including the university where they are employed} (as university activities open up).

http://littlebylittlejohn.com/do-oer-funded-initiatives-impact-professional-practice/

What further we can do?

Explore… find… search…

Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Educationhttp://www.iskme.org

Collaborate for content creation…

Author: Document, remix, license, and share OER

http://wikieducator.org/User:Kalpanagupte/My_Projects

Curate…Create a specific collection of OER for easy access and sharing

http://www.scoop.it/t/open-learning-newshttp://www.scoop.it/t/open-educational-resources-oer

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