Presentation by Dr. S. S. Jena for Workshop on Open Educational Resources and Open Licensing Policies in the Indian Context on 22 February 2013 at India International Centre, New Delhi.

1. OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
(OER) FOR EMPOWERMENT OF
OPEN SCHOOLS
Dr. Sitansu S. Jena
Chairman
National Institute of Open Schooling, India
www.nios.ac.in
“Workshop on OER & Open Licensing Policy in the Indian Context”
Organised by
CEMCA, New Delhi & Creative Commons
India International Centre, New Delhi
Feb.22,2013

2. Open Schooling in India
 97 Million Children (Age Group 14-18) are eligible
now for Secondary & Sr. Secondary Education
 Impact of Education for All Programme & RTE
pressure on Secondary Education System
 15% (12 Million) to be cater to by Open Schooling
as Targeted under XIIth Five Year Plan
 Present Capacity about 04 Million (02 Million by
NIOS + 02 Million by SOSs)
 About 08 million gap still to be filled-in by the
Open Schooling System
 Creating “Safety Net” for Drop Outs and
Disadvantaged Groups
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3. Open Schooling Movement In India
• Started with the establishment of National Open
School (NOS) at New Delhi by Govt. of India
• Subsequently, renamed as National Institute of Open
Schooling (NIOS)
• With the Technical & Academic Support from NIOS till
now 17 State Open Schools have been established
• All states to have Open Schools during 12th Five Year
Plan
• Most of the SOSs follow the NIOS Curriculum with
necessary contextualization
• Dearth of quality learning resources perceived in the
SOSs, both print & non-Print form
• OER to supplement & support the SOSs
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4. David Wiley (2007), while defining OER
stated “Technology–enabled, open
provision of educational resources for
consultation, use and adaptation by a
community of users for non-commercial
purposes” and we are strongly influenced by
this while designing & deploying the OER for
open schooling context.
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5. OER & National Knowledge Commission
(NKC), 2010 of India
• NKC formed a Working • Recommendations of NKC
Group on Open Access & • Leverage the global open educational
OER & observed resource movement to take advantage
of content initiatives
• “…free and open digital • Support the production of quality
publications of high quality content by a select set of Indian
materials organized as institutions
courses that include • Undertake a large scale e-curriculum
development effort directed toward
lectures, related reading adaptation and adoption support.
materials, snapshots of • e-content in liberal arts & social science
discussions, assignments, subjects, including professional &
evaluations, etc.” vocational subjects
• Develop network-enabled delivery
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6. How Open schools perceive the OER
◊ Digitalized Version of the Learning
Materials
◊ Freely available
◊ Open to the user 4R (revise, reuse, remix
& redistribute)
◊ Adopt/ Adaptation by the Users for the
Course Work offered through on-line
◊ Elements of Assessment & Certification
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7. What includes OER?
Learning contents, which includes
Full Courses, Course materials,
contents of course modules,
collections from periodicals and
journals etc.
All software tools which supports in
creation, delivery, use and
improvement of learning materials;
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8. OER Movement for open schooling
On-line co-operation for Access & Distribution of Learning
Resources
Capacity Building of individual & institutions
Collaborative efforts in creating Learning Resources
Storing & sharing of Best Practices
Process of customizing Learning Resources
Creating scientific methods & research base for
development of Learning Resources
Meeting the diversified needs of the heterogeneous
target groups
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9. OER For Open schools: COL’s initiative
• COL’s OER Project on Open Schooling
• 17 selected secondary school
subjects under creative common
License Agreement (CC-BY-SA)
• 6 Countries involved are
Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho, Seyc
helles, Trinidad & Tobago &
Zambia
• Prime objective is to increase
accessibility to quality materials
for school education
• Teacher/instructor’s Guide Books
are developed in 5 subjects on
how to use the OER
• Currently available on CD ROM
• Development of OER Policy thru
COMOSA
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10. NIOS Open Course ware
 All print based materials of
Secondary & Sr. Secondary levels
are uploaded on the web
 More than 200 hours of video
materials are available on You Tube
 More than 400 hours of Audio
materials are available for free
downloading through NIOS Website
 Streaming of Audio through
internet provided both online and
offline mode (Mukta Vidy Vani) on
24X7
 On-line support through e-tutoring
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11. OER Special Project of NIOS
 Develop exemplary courseware,
both print & non-print forms, in
selected vocational subject areas
 Subject areas selected are (i)
Computer & IT, (ii) Tourism &
Hospitality Management & (iii)
Rural Technology
 Online collaborative platform is
created for development of digital
materials
 Approaches followed in
development of the resource
materials are based on (i) Role
based education for Scenario
Based Learning & (ii) Situated
based Social Reconstruction &
Transformation Process
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12. Approaches followed in developing
OER
Consortium approach in course development
(ICONSENT, MKCL, HBCSE, Vigyan Ashram & MSIHM)
Capacity building of the subject experts on both using
technology (web 2.0) and content areas
Using Moodles for developing LMS for delivery of the
course contents for NIOS learners
Material development in a workshop mode using open
source software (web2.0) in wiki platform
Expert feed back on course ware for quality assurances
Development & Deployment of the courseware using a
dedicated server
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13. OER issues & challenges: Indian
perspectives
 Lack of policy consistency to Paris Declaration 2012
 Most of the initiatives are sporadic in nature
 No institutional mechanism for free sharing of learning resources
 Mostly based on Web 1.0 tools, migration towards Web 2.0 has just
started
 None of them available under creative commons licences
 No initiative so far on liberal arts and social science subjects specific
to the arts students
 Generalist approach and not catering to the needs of heterogeneous
groups
 Though institutions are prepared to share resources, a policy
framework is essential at the national level
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14. THANK YOU
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