by Dr S K Pulist

2013

• To explain the concept of Open Educational Resources (OER)

• To trace the evolution of OER

• To examine the benefits and challenges towards the development of OER

• To enlist the Indian initiatives for development of the OER repositories

Defining OER

‘materials offered freely and openly to use and adapt for teaching, learning, development and research’ --COL

‘teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.

--Hewlett Foundation

‘the materials used to support education that may be freely accessed, reused, modified, and shared which includes all those online educational objects which help in acquisition, processing, preservation and retrieval of information at a later stage’

-- UNESCO

Continued…..Defining OER

Components of OER

Learning content

Tools

Implementation resources

Open Licensing

Attributes of OER

Access to open content free of charge;Content licensed for re-use without much

restrictions; Content designed conforming to the open

content standards and formats; andEducational system/tools/software based on

Open Source softwareGeser (2007)

Benefits

Allows learners more time to interact with the material,

Enhances the learning experience,Enables the learners to use ICT tools,Repository of content accessible on

anywhere and anytime basis,--WizIQ

(2012)

Benefits …….continued

Helps in peer-to-peer learning,Provides a space for collaborative learning, Helps the students to undertake collaborative

projects, andEnables the teachers and students to use

lectures as ‘flip class’ (Baker, 2000).

Benefits …….continued

Motivate students to participate in pedagogical process,

Save on course development cost,Ensure quality content for use in teaching and

learning,Help contributing to the global OER

repository,

--Abhi, 2007

Benefits …….continued

Create ‘community of practice’ and ‘community of interest’,

Collaborate with experts for development of learning objects,

Test latest technologies for delivering online programmes, and

Ensure continuous development and capacity building of teachers

Challenges

Faculty needs to be supported,Faculty needs to be trained,Copyright and IPR issues,Accessibility of content,Quality control and assurance mechanism,Enhance the availability of content across

disciplines ,

Challenges …….continued

Printed copies of the content on demand,To generate awareness about OER,To ensure 24x7 internet connectivity,To develop OER culture in the organisation at

all levels, andMake the funds available for the OER initiative

--COL, 2012

OER Policy Issues

Mechanism to share the content during their employment with the institution,

Whether the content created will form part of the job description,

Guidelines on use of ICT tools and their version control,

Guidelines for QA and clearance of copyright issues for sharing of content under open licensing.

http://www.col.org/resources /publications/Pages/detail.aspx?PID=357

Indian Initiatives

A-VIEW (Amrita Virtual Interactive E-learning World)e-GyanKosh FlexiLearn NCERT NIOS-OER NPTELOER4S (Homi Bhabha Centre for Sc Ed.)OSCAR (IIT, Mumbai under Ekalavya Project).Shakshat

http://aview.amrita.ac.in/

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

http://www.ignouflexilearn.ac.in/flexilearn/

http://ncert.nic.in/ncerts/textbook/textbook.htm

http://www.nios.ac.in/online-course-material.aspx

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

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

http://oscar.iitb.ac.in/oscarHome.do;jsessionid=71850E51474C038380686931C2F2AB72

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

Thanks!