The document discusses Open Educational Resources (OER), which are freely available teaching and learning materials usable for education, research, and other purposes. It highlights the evolution of OER, its various forms such as courses, textbooks, and online materials, and initiatives taken in different countries, especially India, to promote OER. The text also emphasizes the importance of collaboration and networking in enhancing educational practices through OER.

1. Open Educational Resources:
Strategies to enhance Networking
and Collaborative Opportunities
Ramesh Sharma
Indira Gandhi National Open University

2. What
are…

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

4. What is an
OER?
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5. 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.

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

7. Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and
learning materials that are freely available online
for 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 classroom
activities, pedagogical materials, games,
simulations, and many more resources contained in
digital media collections from around the world.
- OER Commons
http://www.oercommons.org/

8. OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the
public domain or have been released under an intellectual property
license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open
educational 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

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

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

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

12. Wondering where
to find Course
Related OER
Materials?

16. Asian Initiatives…

17. OER Based ODL Course Material

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

19. OCWC Global Conference 2013

20. Japan Opencourseware Consortium
(JOCW)

21. OER in Thailand

22. Thailand Cyber University Open
Courseware

23. OER in Pakistan

24. Sri Lanka

25. OER Repository

26. OER in Thailand

27. Creative Commons Korea

28. KOCW

30. Indian Initiatives…

31. National Knowledge Commission
Govt. of India
http://knowledgecommission.gov.in/focus/default.asp

32. Indian Institute of Technology
Bombay (IITB)

33. Open Educational Resources for
Schools (OER4S)
http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/research-development/projects/open-educational-resources-for-schools-oer4s

34. WizIQ: Open Tutorials

35. Open Course materials

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

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

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

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

40. Vidyanidhi (Meaning 'Treasure of
Knowledge' in Sanskrit)

41. Rai OpenCourseware (Rai Foundation)
http://www.rbs.edu.in/chennai/rocw.html

42. Consortium for Educational Communication
(University Grants Commission)

43. eGyanKosh
http://www.egyankosh.ac.in/

44. FlexiLearn
Indira Gandhi National Open University
http://www.ignouflexilearn.ac.in/flexilearn/

45. Networking and
Collaboration

46. WizIQ: Virtual Classroom for Online
Education

47. Open Course from University of
Mumbai

49. WikiEducator pages on courses of
IDOL

51. Open Course from Mumbai University
The Professor and testimonial

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

53. Online Live Conversations:
Prof Sugata Mitra with Dr Nellie Deutsch

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

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

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

57. Strategies…

58. 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/

59. 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).

60. What further we can do?

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

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

63. Collaborate for content creation…

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

65. 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

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

67. Join
OER
Foundation…

69. Beome a
proud member
of
WikiEducator

70. http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page

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

72. Free professional development
opportunity from the OER Foundation

74. Winners from Maharashtra…

75. Dr Sujata Dhopte

76. Dr Kalpana Gupte

77. Dr Kalpana Gupte

78. OER Project: Guide for newly enrolled
distance learners

79. Thank You !