Open Educational Resources & Open Licensing Policies in the Indian Context: IGNOU Perspective
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Open Educational Resources & Open Licensing Policies in the Indian Context: IGNOU Perspective
Uma KanjilalIndira Gandhi National Open University
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The University has contributed towards nation building in a great way and evolved successful models of democratization of education, training and capacity building.
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The Mandate of the University
Access to higher education to all segments of society
Provide high quality, innovative and need-based programmes at different levels, to all those who require them;
Reach out to the disadvantaged at affordable costs; and
promote, coordinate and regulate the standards of education offered through open and distance learning in the country.
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IGNOU At A Glance
• Established in 1985; Programmes offered: 1987
• Students : 2.9 million (12% of total higher education; about 50% of total distance education)
• Academic programmes: #445• Courses on offer: #3,000• Regional Centres: 67• Study Centres/ Tele-learning Centres: #3107• Teachers & academics: 447; Admin staff:
1219• Tutors/ Counsellors: # 36,000• Offer outside India: 36 countries / 67 Centres
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IGNOU’s Technology Enhanced Learning: Present Status
5 educational channels (Gyan Darshan)- also available on DTH and IP TV
37 FM radio stations (Gyan Vani) with Interactive radio counseling facility
Internet Radio and webcasting
Pan African e-Network Project
eGyanKosh (e=electronic, gyan= knowledge, kosh= repository)
FlexiLearn initiative for open courses27
Online programmes in complete virtual environment
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Journey to e-content development started with digitisation and repository building Over 95% of the self-instructional print material of
the University covering more than 2300 courses available
More 2500 video programmes available on YouTube with the metadata link in the repository
More than 1,67, 593 registered users and visits per day around 500 from all over the world
http://www.egyankosh.ac.in
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Webcasting of Broadcast channels Gyan Darshan and Gyan Vani
IGNOU is the first Open University in the world to adopt OER Policy CC- BY-NC-SA license with Board of Management Approval
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First MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) portal in the country with crowdsourcing philosophy
Open Course Portal for Course wise registration and assessment with modular approach for earning course credits for a certificate, diploma or degree
http://www.ignouflexilearn.ac.in/
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• More than 900 courses available with 63699 registered users.
• E-portfolio for a formal record of all formal and informal studies carried out by the registered learner
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Virtual Classrooms
Walk in admission
Integrated multimedia courseware (personalized learning space )
Online counseling and mentoring (web conferencing, text based chatting)
Assignment Management System
E-tutor based practical
Group based online seminar
Online Project platform
Online Term End Examination (proctored)
27 online programmes- all processes online right from registration to certification with the following features:
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IGNOU Adopts OER Policy
IGNOU envisions to be a leading developer of OERs with the use of its own as well as other OERs fully incorporated into teaching and learning at all levels within the University system
The policy is adopted to guide the promotion, development and usage of OERs and to further ensure that the highest standards of education are achieved thereof.
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Purpose of the OER Policy
Make materials available under open license
Support voluntary participation of Faculty and others in developing OER content
Clarify publication rights and licensing issues
Provide guidance in development and review of OER materials prior to sharing them on a worldwide scale
Define collaborations within and without the university with the intent to allow access to the open content.
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Licenses for IGNOU OER Repository
In general all IP and the outputs and outcomes arising from that IP will be owned by the creator whereas IGNOU will derive benefits from the outcomes.
All materials released on the IGNOU OER Repository site will be covered under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.5 India (CC BY-NC-SA)
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Concluding Remarks
Developing culture of sharing and re-using – awareness building
Contextualizing and mapping to curriculum – implications for teaching/ learning and new methods of assessment and accreditation
user-friendly tools to locate and retrieve OER
Formats and Interoperability