A presentation by Dr. Anjlee Prakash at National Consultation on OER for Skill Development at New Delhi

1. OPEN Educational Resources
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR
TEACHERS
By
Dr. Anjlee Prakash
Learning Links Foundation, New Delhi
Presented at
National Consultation on
Open Educational Resources for Skill Development
Organised by
Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), New Delhi
In Collaboration with: KNI Trust, Gurgaon
Venue: Hotel Royal Plaza, New Delhi
Date: 28 November, 2014

2. LEARNING LINKS
FOUNDATION
OPEN Educational Resources
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR
TEACHERS
An ISO 9001:2008 Organization

3. About LLF
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Largest
Teacher PD
Network in
India
Works
across India
and the
Globe
Formed in
2002

4. Our Impact
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5. Our Key Strengths
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 Ability to provide effective solutions across the education ecosystem
 Assessing needs, developing solution, building capacity, creating
content, documenting impact, enhancing visibility
 Ability to scale rapidly across geographies
 Process driven, quality conscious
 Constantly scored high on project evaluation by 3rd parties
 Integrated approach to all initiatives
 Providing customer focused, need based support
 Strong follow up and mentoring support – building confidence
 Excellence in providing dynamic / 24*7 support

6. Professional Development for Teachers
(In-Service and Pre-Service)
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Professional Skills, Personal Effectiveness, Classroom
Management
Comprehensive well researched solutions, WITH new
strategies of teaching and learning TO promote a cycle of
continuous improvement in practices, AIMED AT enhancing
the effectiveness of school leaders, teachers and other
change-makers

7. Online Learning- Why OERs?
 The Open CourseWare movement began at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2002 and has now spread across
the globe.
 We joined this movement because we believe in:
 Supporting Free High Quality Education
 Becoming a part of a global effort to make knowledge available to
all
 Promoting Innovation in Education by providing access to digital
and online education

8. OERs for PD- The Role of LLF
Our Partners
NMC- New Media
Consortium
To Offer MOOCs for Enhancing STEMx
Teaching Skills
Coursera
As a Learning Partner for Improving
the accessibility of and support for
online education

9. LLF MOOCs
1. Cultivating Creativity and
Innovation
2. Rural Problems and STEMx
Solutions

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Cultivating Creativity and Innovation
 Target Group:
STEMx Educators of grades 6-8
 Duration of Course:
9-12 hours
 Technology used: Coursesites

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Course Description
 The Cultivating Creativity and Innovation course (CCI) prepares
teachers to create a progressive learning environment in their
classrooms that offers opportunities to explore, discover,
understand, experiment and create.
 Starting from focusing thoughts on what comprises a creative and
innovative classroom and how teachers can work towards creating
one, the course progresses to familiarizing them with the Creative
Problem Solving process (CPS) and its application in their
classroom.
 Teachers learn to design ICT‐supported STEMx activities that
give students an opportunity to use the CPS process and complete
the course with designing an activity for use in their classrooms.

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Course Objectives
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• Promote creativity and innovation in the classrooms
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• Use the Creative Problem Solving process (CPS) in the
classrooms to enrich learning experiences through hands‐on and
minds‐on challenging STEMx activities
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• Use CPS tools that support divergent and convergent thinking
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• Facilitate divergent and convergent thinking through technology

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Rural Problems, STEMx Solutions (Hindi)
 Target Group:
STEMx educators of grades
6-8
 Duration of Course: 9-
12 hours
 Technology used: Google Sites

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Course Description
 The Rural Problems, STEMx Solutions course attempts to
building capacity within rural teachers who have the knowledge of
STEMx subjects but need direction to steer their pedagogy with a
more contemporary approach in the classroom.
 It will prepare teachers to identify rural community problems that
can be resolved through analysis and application of STEMx
concepts through dialogue and constructive learning in a way that
STEMx becomes relevant in the lives of rural communities.
 Overall the idea of the course design is to introduce social
innovation through interventions in classroom pedagogy using
STEMx learning as a base and pillar for widespread research and
delivery of rural solutions.

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Course Objectives
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• Make STEMx subjects relevant to a living and learning
environment
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• Instill use of technology to broaden understanding and engage
meaningfully with STEMx subjects
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• Improve pedagogy for STEMx subjects such that classroom
learning has a constructivist, problem solving orientation

16. Our Challenges
 Choosing an Integrated LMS- Keeping in mind that MOOCs are designed
to accommodate massive number of users, it was desired that the course
platform should support varied course activities, varied assessments, links
to external tools, discussion forums, and also track course registrations and
activity as well as have automated grading for users attempting
assessment activities
 Course Design- The instructional design of an e-learning course differs
vastly from that of a face to face learning scenario. The challenge lies in
ensuring the users interact with the screen as often as they can. This is
done by making the course screens clickable, meaning that users get to
click on multimedia to watch, see content and click on options to perform
various activities and assessments.
 Course Structure- Apart from Design, it is important for the course to have
a simple yet logical and smooth structure that allows users to progress
through the course without any confusion. The users should not only be
aware of what they are going to accomplish with the course but also be
informed of their progress in the course.
 Less Completion Rates- About 90 percent of people who register for
MOOCs fail to complete them, most providers acknowledge. And this is a

17. Thank You
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