This document discusses the Karnataka Open Educational Resources (KOER) initiative, a new model of teacher education. KOER aims to create a community of teachers who collaboratively develop, share, and review open educational resources using a wiki platform. It allows teachers to play a key role in creating locally relevant and dynamic learning materials. By participating in the creation of these resources, teachers engage in peer-learning and continuous professional development. The initiative has seen over 100 teachers create over 2000 resource pages and files on subjects like math, science, and social studies. It is helping move beyond a solely textbook-based approach in Karnataka classrooms.

1. Karnataka Open Educational Resources
KOER
- A New Model of Teacher Education
STF/HTF 2013-14

2. Current educational context
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NCF and RTE have proposed a new framework
of education
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inclusive, contextual and meaningful education
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learners to bring in their knowledge and experience
build skills and capabilities for 21st century
What is needed for this new framework?
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Contextual meaningful curricular resources
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Quality of teacher professional development
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Integrate ICTs into Teacher Education
ICT enabled community of learning to share and
collaborate

3. Current resources context
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Textbook is the most important resource
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Other (departmental) resources
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Only one source; supply driven /top down
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Limited; made once for the year
Largely textual
External resources
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Mostly non-digital
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Expensive
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Cannot adapt

4. Beginnings of Open Educational Resources (OER)
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Global Phenomena
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Massachussetts Institute of Technology course materials
for free called Open Courseware (2001); www.edx.org
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Launch of wikipedia (2001)
Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa;
http://www.tessafrica.net/
Initiatives in India
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National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning
(NPTEL); http://nptel.iitk.ac.in/
IGNOU Open courses
Move from textual content to include different kinds of
digital content – image, audio, video

5. What are the principles of OERs
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4Rs (called “Four Freedoms”)
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Resources can be revised/ adapted to make it
relevant
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Combine different kinds of OERs to make a new
resource
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Resources can be accessed for free and used
Redistribute - Share the revised/ remixed resource
Copy Left
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Allows these four freedoms
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Creative Commons License

6. Characteristics of OERs
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Types of OERs
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Sharing already created academic content for free
www.khanacademy.org; www.tessafrica.net
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Structuring free course materials and courses
www.edx.org; www.coursera.org;www.nptel.iitk.ac.in
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Creating a collaborative community
www.wikipedia.org
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Dynamic; continuously updated
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Multiple perspectives
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Collaborative, involve many
Reference: IGNOU_OER_Presentation

7. OERs a national educational priority
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Karnataka Open Educational Resources
Kannada KOER ; English KOER
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Built on a wiki platform
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Created by practising teachers, collaboratively
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Locally relevant, meaningful, dynamic
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Teacher plays a key role
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Same principles as OERs
Of the teacher, by the teacher and for the teacher
National Repository of Open Educational Resources
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Facilitated by the NCERT
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Similar principles as KOER

8. KOER - New Model in Teacher Education
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Community of teachers (STF and HTF members)
create, share and review resources
– Peer learning
– Peer review
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How does this happen?
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Email forums for sharing experiences and ideas
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Wiki for resource sharing and access
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Community collaboratively, continuosly learning,
creating, sharing and evaluating resources

9. KOER - New Model in Teacher Education
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Resource creation has thus become a method of
teacher education
– When a teacher creates a resource, she learns
– Teacher feels empowered with respect to teaching
learning processes
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Move beyond text book culture
A teacher education programme has become a source
for resource creation
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Continuous resource creation
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Multiple perspectives, ideas, different kinds of
resources
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Interactive classrooms

10. KOER – Status
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Class IX new text books, subject portals
– Maths
– Science
– Social Science
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Thematic portals
– ELM
– Assessment
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Wiki login id to create, edit for more than 100 teachers
More than 2000 resource pages and 1000 resource files
uploaded
Nearly 200,000 views of KOER

11. KOER – Status
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Cascade STF Pages
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STF information
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News articles
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Teachers contributions
– Direct upload /edit
– Contribute button
– Comment and provide feedback on resources

12. KOER (Kannada) – Maths Subject Portal
http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/index.php/ಪ್್ರವೇಶದ್ವಾರ:ಗಣಿತ

13. KOER (English) – STF Cascade page
http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/STF_Cascade_District_Workshops_2013-14