2012/10/10: Open Educational Resources: Policy, Technology and Practices, Presentation by Sanjaya Mishra at the Training programme for the Faculty of Bangladesh Open University organized by the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), NOIDA.
Also presented at the Technical Workshop on Virtual Open Schooling on 11/02/2013.
2. 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
3. History and Developments
MIT OpenCourseWare, 2001
UNESCO Forum on the Impact of Open
Courseware for Higher Education in
Developing Countries, 2002
OLI-CMU, 2002
OER Paris Declaration 2012
COMOSA OER Policy
4. What is “Open”?
It’s about open license used to share
educational material
Reuse
Revise
Remix
Redistribute
No permission required as long as the open
license is respected
5. Benefits of OER
Promote lifelong learning
Contribute to social inclusion, gender equity
and education for the special needs
Improve cost-efficiency and quality of
teaching and learning
8. Technology and Platforms
Wikipedia, Wikieducator, Wikivarsity
Wikispaces, etc.
Connexions
MIT OpenCourseware
OLI-CMU
FlexiLearn
OpenLearn
9. Searching OER
Activity to search OER
– Search one video on OER under CC license
– Search a course in OER on a subject of your
interest
10. Wiki-approach to content
development and teaching
Meaning quick, quick is a Hawaiian word,
coined by Ward Cunningham in 2005
Popular example is Wikipedia
User can edit the pages
History of the page created can be checked
and reverted back
Courses are open to all
Provides a collaborative learning platform to
the learners
11. OER Use Case Study 1
• Open Education, 2007
• David Wiley taught a
3 credit course using
Wiki
• Used weekly reading
and blogging
• Assignments and
grading
• Over 50 learners took
this course
12. OER use Case Study 2
• SLM Development, 2008
• Sanjaya Mishra trained
20 individuals to write
self-learning materials
• Used weekly reading and
GoogleGroup
• Wiki-based Tasks to
develop SLM using wiki
• Learning contract,
certification, online
activities, visible outputs
13. OER use Case Study 3
• Bangladesh Open
School, SLM Training
• F2F and Online
training
• Development of Units
• Collaborative course
Development
14. Wiki in Course Development
MediaWiki Server can be configured to have two
iteration of the same course content
One for the Course Team, and the other for learners'
access
Course Team member work to prepare the materials that
may require content expertise, media expertise
(graphics, audio, video, animation), interaction
expertise, and instructional design expertise
Quality benchmarks can be developed to see that the
material has reached certain level of maturity, and can
be transported to the open access platform for the
learners' use
15. Advantages of Wiki-based OER
Updating and revision of courses become easy
Learner participation in course, and their engagement
will improve
Some of the user generated content may be useful in
revision
Courses will become live and dynamic rather than static
and outdated
Quality of the course would improve as it will adhere to
copyright regulations (as it will be open)
Open content licensing policy can be adopted
Courses can be developed fast using OER
16. Advantages of Wiki-based OER
Print copies can be developed automatically using
PediaPress PDF server
Print-on-demand facility can be used
Less paper use, and digital preservation of content with
each editing recored
Resources other than main text can also be integrated
including Slideshare, YouTube, MindMap, Google
Calender, etc.
Online quiz, and self-assessment activities can be in-
built within the learning material
Discussion Forum can be built around lessons
17. Myths about Wikis
Wikis are not reliable
Anyone can edit wiki pages
Using Wiki will make courses constructivist
Wiki Courses does not need management
Wikis promote plagiarism
18. Any one can teach
WikiEducator Demonstration and practice
Creating user page
Cheat Sheet