Open Educational Resources: Emerging Scenarios in India

Ramesh Sharma2 August 2014

National Knowledge CommissionGovt. of India

http://knowledgecommission.gov.in/focus/default.asp

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)

Open Educational Resources for Schools (OER4S)

http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/research-development/projects/open-educational-resources-for-schools-oer4s

OER4S

OER Impact Map

OER Impact map• Performance• Openness• Access• Retention• Reflection• Finance• Indicators• Support• Transition• Policy• Assessment

National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)

http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/index.php

National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS)

The National Institute of Open Schooling

http://oer.nios.ac.in/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Open Education Resources (OER) through ICT initiated by NIOS

NIOS-OER-ICT Applications

NIOS-OER-Rural Technology

SAKSHAT

http://www.sakshat.ac.in/

Vidyanidhi (Meaning 'Treasure of Knowledge' in Sanskrit)

Rai OpenCourseware (Rai Foundation)

http://www.rbs.edu.in/chennai/rocw.html

Consortium for Educational Communication(University Grants Commission)

eGyanKosh

http://www.egyankosh.ac.in/

NROER

Teacher Education and Potential of OERs in India

http://artofoer.wordpress.com/2013/01/20/learning-rot-among-tots-teacher-education-in-india-and-the-potential-of-oer/

TESS-India (Teacher Education through School-based Support in

India)

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).

What further is being done?

Collaborating for content creation…

Authoring: Document, remix, license, and share OER

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

OER Project: Guide for newly enrolled distance learners

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

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

Sharing…

http://wikieducator.org/User:Rashkath

OER Foundation…

Beome a proud member of WikiEducator

http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page

WikiEducator - India

http://wikieducator.org/India

Free professional development opportunity from the OER Foundation

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