Open Educational Resources:Strategies to enhance Networking and Collaborative Opportunities

Open Educational Resources:Strategies to enhance Networking and Collaborative Opportunities Ramesh SharmaIndira Gandhi National Open University

Whatare…

Open Things…• Open Access• Open Content• Open Course ware• Open Source Software• Open Education / e-Learning• Open Educational Resources• …and many more things

What is anOER? Image source: http://www.bihardays.com/

Beginning… The term was first used at a UNESCO conference in 2002, although OERs were being produced and used before that time. For instance, the MIT OpenCourseWare project, which began in 2001, was one of the first major initiatives of the OER movement.

Open Educational Resources (OER) are‘materials offered freely and openly to useand adapt for teaching, learning,development and research’.- The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) http://www.col.org/resources/crsMaterials/Pages/OCW-OER.aspx

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching andlearning materials that are freely available onlinefor everyone to use, whether you are an instructor,student or self-learner. Examples of OER include:full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures,homework assignments, quizzes, lab and classroomactivities, pedagogical materials, games,simulations, and many more resources contained indigital media collections from around the world.- OER Commonshttp://www.oercommons.org/

OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in thepublic domain or have been released under an intellectual propertylicense that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Openeducational resources include full courses, course materials, modules,textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools,materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge. - The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Open Educational Resourcesfree and openly licensed educational materials that can be used for• teaching,• learning,• research, and• other purposes.

Types of Open Educational Resources • Courses • Course materials • Content modules • Learning objects • Collections, and • Journals

open content / open practices http://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/tag/open-content/

Wondering where to find Course Related OER Materials?

Asian Initiatives…

OER Based ODL Course Material

The OpenCourseWare Consortium, APIKOM, the Ministry of Communication and Informatics of Indonesia

OCWC Global Conference 2013

Japan Opencourseware Consortium (JOCW)

OER in Thailand

Thailand Cyber University Open Courseware

OER in Pakistan

Sri Lanka

OER Repository

OER in Thailand

Creative Commons Korea

Indian Initiatives…

National Knowledge Commission Govt. 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

WizIQ: Open Tutorials

Open Course materials

National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/index.php

The National Institute of Open Schooling http://oer.nios.ac.in/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

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

National Council of Educational Research and Training http://www.ncert.nic.in/index.htmlOnline textbooks….

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/

FlexiLearnIndira Gandhi National Open University http://www.ignouflexilearn.ac.in/flexilearn/

Networking and Collaboration

WizIQ: Virtual Classroom for Online Education

Open Course from University of Mumbai

WikiEducator pages on courses of IDOL

Open Course from Mumbai University The Professor and testimonial

Conversations with luminaries from Education arena http://go.wiziq.com/2lmd

Online Live Conversations:Prof Sugata Mitra with Dr Nellie Deutsch

Free Educational Resources:Case Studies, Whitepapers, eBooks, eLearning insights

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… - Allison Littlejohn, Lou McGill, Isobel Falconer, Jay Dempster http://littlebylittlejohn.com/do-oer-funded-initiatives-impact-professional-practice/

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 we can do?

Explore… find… search… Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education http://www.iskme.org

Collaborate for content creation… Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education http://www.iskme.org

Collaborate for content creation…

Author:Document, remix, license, and share OER http://wikieducator.org/User:Kalpanagupte/My_Projects

Curate…Create a specific collection of OER for easy access and sharing http://www.scoop.it/t/open-learning-news http://www.scoop.it/t/open-educational-resources-oer

Share…http://wikieducator.org/User:Rashkath

JoinOERFoundation…

Beome aproud memberofWikiEducator

http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page

WikiEducator - India http://wikieducator.org/India

Free professional developmentopportunity from the OER Foundation

Winners from Maharashtra…

Dr Sujata Dhopte

Dr Kalpana Gupte

OER Project: Guide for newly enrolled distance learners

Thank You !

Open Educational Resources:Strategies to enhance Networking and Collaborative Opportunities

by Ramesh C. Sharma on Mar 06, 2013

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