Presentation by Dr. Sanjaya Mishra, Director, CEMCA at the South Asian Minnisters Forum on 12 February 2013 at New Delhi.

1. Commonwealth Educational
Media Centre for Asia
ICT integration in
Teacher Education
Using Open Educational Resources
Sanjaya Mishra
Director, Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia
12 February 2013

2. Commonwealth Educational Media
Centre for Asia
 Established by the Commonwealth of
Learning, Vancouver, Canada in 1994;
Agreement with Govt of India in 1998; Status
of a Diplomatic mission in 2000
 To assist governments and institutions to
expand the scale, efficiency and quality of
learning by using multiple media in open,
distance and technology-enhanced learning

3. What are the big challenges?
 Number of untrained teachers, including
vocational education teachers
 Concern for quality of teacher training
 Access to technology
 Faith on technology to assist improving
access and quality of education
 Quality of student learning (joyful, as well as
learning for living)

4. COL and Teacher Education
 Quality assurance of teacher education
 Green Teacher programme
 OER for English language teaching
 TESSA Partnership (for teacher education
materials)
 Child Friendly Schools

5. CEMCA: Teacher Education Focus
 Teacher education institutions adopt blended
approach to ICT integration in continuing
professional development
– Developing a Community of Practice for Teacher
Educators
– Imparting ICT skills to Teacher Educators
 Underlying belief: increased use of ICT by
teacher educators will play a cascading
effect on appropriate use of ICT by teachers
in the classroom

6. Teacher Education: Holistic view
Pedagogy
Content
Student
Technology
Teacher

7. Technology Innovation: COL Tablet
server
A tablet used as
a server can host
an LMS or CMS
such as Moodle
or Wordpress
pre-loaded with
learning
materials. An external battery can power
the wireless router off-grid for
up to 12 hours.
A portable wireless router can broadcast a
network that students can connect to http://techpaper.colfinder.org/

8. OPEN EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES

9. OER: What and Why
• Emergence of the term OER, 2002
• National Knowledge Commission, India
(2007 Recommendation on OER)
• OER Paris Declaration, 2012
• Sharing of educational materials as national
resources
• Providing opportunity for lifelong learning,
and continuous professional development
• Strengthening ODL approaches through
quality learning materials

10. Open Licensing
 To share educational material
– Reuse
– Revise
– Remix
– Redistribute
 No permission required as long as the open
license is respected

11. What needs to be done for TE?
 Understanding open license
 Developing OER in teaching subjects
 OER Policy development

12. Emerging OER initiatives
 NPTEL is an example
 TESS-India (in early stage)
 TESSA

13. OER as panacea for all problems?
 Capacity building of teachers and teacher
educators on ICT use and integration of OER
in teaching and learning
 Creating a culture of sharing and contribution
to OER
 Being prepared to handle ICT empowered
learners
 Collaboration through Community of Practice

14. Thank YOU