The Role of New Media in Knowledge Generation by the

Community

A Case Study of NROER

• Connecting knowledge to life outside the school• Ensuring that learning shifts away from rote methods • Enriching curriculum so that it goes beyond textbooks • Making examinations flexible • Primacy to children’s experiences, their voices and their

participation• Need for adults to change their perception of children as

passive receivers of knowledge

• Children can be active participants in the construction of knowledge

• Highlights the value of interaction with: environment, peers, older people to enhance learning

• Learning tasks must be designed to enable children to seek out knowledge from sites other than textbooks.

• Need therefore to move away from rigid lesson planning to planning and designing activities that challenge children to think and try out what they are learning.

New Media as a pedagogical toolThe New Media is not just about new ways/technology of

creating & delivering media messages but it is also a pedagogical tool to make education system more

efficient.

Collaboration, creation, contextualized resources

Indian education system & New Media

New media can offer solution to various challenges faced by the India education system– Enormity of young population– Inflexibility in the education system– Multiplicity of language– Reach and access to education– Textbook centric education– Lack of teachers– Content generation as centralized activity

If used systematically and strategically, New Media can play a significant role in improving the education in India and has a tremendous

potential for enhancing outreach.

Government’s initiatives• National Policy of ICT in school education

• ICT @schools Scheme

• campus –based wireless internet facilities and 24/7 labs

• ICT coverage to all 360 universities and 17, 625 colleges, in a phased manner.

• Intellectual hubs – universities @ Colleges- through networks, e Resources, online learning, access to global resources, archiving of content, and e learning management techniques.

• Broadband, wireless, digital subscriber line to create a platform for collaboration amongst teachers and learners to digitize Indian intellectual content

New Media & OER movement• The phenomenon of OER is made possible by the widespread use if ICT and open

source technologies.• Over the last decade , national institutions have embraced the concept of

collaborative teaching and learning practices.• Most OER initiative in India have focused on increasing the quantum of OER in

higher education.• One of the early venture was CEC an inter-university centre of the UGC• Other major initiative includes:

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Why OER• OER has a great potential to support educational transformation.

• While its educational value lies in the idea of using resources as an integral method of communication of curriculum in educational courses (i.e. resource-based learning)

• its transformative power lies in the ease with which such resources, when digitized, can be shared via the Internet.

• It promotes community participation as it allows people to Four Rs Framework: Reuse, Revise, Remix, Redistribute

• There is only one key differentiator between an OER and any other educational resource: its license. Thus, an OER is simply an educational resource that incorporates a license that facilitates reuse, and potentially adaptation, without first requesting

permission from the copyright holder.

Background

• National Policy of ICT in School Education• ICT @Schools

• Development of e content

• Collaborative creation of e content

• Widespread dissemination of e content

• Setting up of state and national level digital repositories

• Development of digital resources as per the National policy on open standards ( Open and free access to resources developed under any state funded project)

Connecting Knowledge, Connecting People, Open education for all

• Interdisciplinary linkages should be encouraged

• Making variety of resources available

• Involving community in creation of content

Connecting knowledge

Connecting People

The process

• Collate

• Curate

• Creating – In house/ outsourcing

• Review

• Upload

Review Process- level 1Review of content available at CIET

NROER

Approved

Content

CIET

Third party

evaluation

Review of content uploaded by user/teacher

NROER

Approved

Content

Uploaded by user

In house/thir

d evaluation

Review Process – level 2

Viewership Comments Ratings

References• National Policy on Information and Communication Technology on School

Education• ICT @ School Scheme• National Curriculum Framework 2005• Piloting of General Education Quality Analysis/Diagnosis Framework ( GEQAF) in

India• National Focus Group on Educational Technology- Position Paper• Nroer.gov.in• Ictcurriculum.gov.in