The document discusses open schooling and its role in empowering youth. It outlines the evolution of distance learning models from correspondence to online/multimedia-based models. Open schooling aims to provide secondary and higher secondary education to millions of children through flexibility in age, location, pace of learning. It discusses how open schooling caters to diverse groups including school dropouts, girls/women, rural/urban poor, adults, SC/ST, minorities, differently-abled, jail inmates and defence personnel. The document outlines NIOS's instructional system and courses offered. It highlights the impact of openness and flexibility through gender-wise enrolment data. In conclusion, it discusses ICT-enabled learning tools like NP

1. OPEN SCHOOLING FOR
EMPOWERING YOUTHS
Dr.S.S.Jena
Chairman, NIOS
www.nios.ac.in
International Conference on Open & Flexible
Distance Learning (OFDL)
Feb.20-22, 2013
SNDT University, Mumbai

2. Fifth Generation
The Intelligent Flexible Learning First Generation
Model The Correspondence Model
Second Generation
Interactive multimedia (IMM) Print
The Multi-media Model
Internet-based access to WWW
Print, Audiotape, videotape,
resources Computer-based learning,
Computer mediated Interactive video (disk and tape)
communication, using
automated response systems
ODL
Third Generation
Fourth Generation The Tele-learning Model
The Flexible Learning Model Audio teleconferencing
Interactive multimedia (IMM) Videoconferencing
Internet-based access to WWW
resources Audio graphic communication
Computer mediated communication Broadcast TV/Radio and
Audio teleconferencing
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3. Paradigm Shifts in School Education
• Shift of learning from only classroom to anywhere.
• From teacher-centric to learner-centric.
• From teacher as instructor to teacher as a facilitator of
learning.
• From mainly oral instruction to also technology-aided
instruction.
• From fixed time to any time during life as learning time.
• From “you learn what we offer” to “we offer that you want
to learn”.
• From education as a one-time activity to education as lifelong
activity.
• “ Education Any Time, Any Body, Any Where”
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4. 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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5. Hallmark of Open Schooling
 Flexibility in Age of Admission (no upper age limit
& Minimum age is 14+)
 Flexibility in deciding course, place and space of
study
 Freedom to select subjects, according to one’s
needs, interest & abilities;
 Integration of academic with vocational courses;
 Continuous assessment through Tutor Marked
Assignments(TMA),
 Credit accumulation facility over a period of 5
years;
 Facility of transfer of credits from other Boards of
school Education
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6. SCHOOL DROP OUTS
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7. GIRLS & WOMEN
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8. RURAL WOMEN & URBAN POOR
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9. ADULT LEARNERS
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10. SC & ST LEARNERS
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11. MINORITES
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12. DIFFERENTLY-ABLED LEARNERS
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13. JAIL INMATES
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14. DEFENCE PERSONNEL
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15. Courses Offered
 Elementary Education
• Open Basic Education (OBE) at A level, B level and C
level equivalent to Classes III, V, VIII respectively of
formal Education
 Secondary Education (Xth)
• Offered in 7 Indian languages including English,
Hindi & Urdu.
 Sr.Secondary Education (XII)
• Offered in 3 Indian languages – English, Hindi &
Urdu
 Vocational Courses in about 100 Vocational Areas
 Courses for Special Focus Groups such as Hunar
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16. Instructional System at NIOS
Curriculum Planning Identification of Certification
and Development needs of Groups
Printed Material
Contact Classes
Production of Multi
Media (MM) and Self Lab Practicals
Instructional Material
(SIM) A.V.Cassettes
Examination &
Delivery Learners Evaluation
Radio Broadcast
System
Telecast
Internet Based
Teleconferencing
Feed back
NIOS touches and changes life of Millions.
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17. IMPACT OF OPENNESS AND FLEXIBILITIES
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18. Genderwise Coursewise Enrolment
55.10%
Vocational courses
44.89%
Girls
Boys
29.91%
Academic Courses
70.09%
0.00% 10.00% 20.00% 30.00% 40.00% 50.00% 60.00% 70.00% 80.00%
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19. ICT enabled learning tools: Some
contemporary reflections
• NPTEL Open Courseware
• IGNOU on-line initiatives
• Digital resources repository of CEC
• Web based resources of NCERT
• CBSE e-Books
• Open Courseware of NIOS & OER
• Mukta Vidya Vani: The Innovation for
Masses
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20. National Programme on Technology Enhanced
Learning (NPTEL)
• Objective of NPTEL program is to
enhance the quality of engineering
education in the country by
developing curriculum based video
and web courses
• Open courseware initiative by seven
Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)
and the Indian Institute of Science
(IISc)
• Supplementary content for 967 web
courses in engineering/science and
humanities
• More than 10,000 courses have been
developed in video format, with each
course comprising approximately
40mts or more than one-hour
lectures
• Proposed for Virtual Technical
University
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21. IGNOU Online
Uploading of more than
30000 lessons of
IGNOU Self
Instructional Materials
and 1600 videos
Webcasting of telecast
inputs covered under
Gyan Darshan
Use of wiki for
collaborative content
generation
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22. Digital resources repository of CEC
 CEC is an inter-university centre on
electronic media under the University
Grants Commission (UGC) of India
 CEC in coordination with its 17
Educational Multimedia Research
Centres produces television
programmes in various subject in
English, Hindi and regional languages
 All video inputs are syllabus-based
topics those are taught in schools,
polytechnics, colleges and universities
& telecast through television network
 CEC Learning Object Repository (LOR)
and the Digital Video Repository (DVR)
provides worldwide access to these
qualitative learning resources
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23. NCERT’s web based Learning Resources
 NCERT is an apex resource
organization set up by the
Government of India to assist
and advise the Central and State
Governments on curriculum &
instructional reforms related to
school education
 School textbooks are now freely
available through its web portal
for students and teachers
 Video resources available in You
Tube
 Web casting of Telecast
Learning inputs
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24. CBSE E-Books
 Available for Class IX & X
 Supports additional
information a student is
looking for through the
alternative resources, both
print &non-print based
 Free download online anytime
without any cost to the
students
 Formative & summative
assessment tools are also
available in selected subject
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areas
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25. 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, Seychelles,
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
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26. NIOS Open Courseware
 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-
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tutoring

27. OER Initiative 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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28. http://www.nios.iradioindia.com/

29. Web Hits Analysis
• Summary
• Hourly
• Came From
• Recent Came From
• Visitor Paths
• Visit Length
• Recent Page load
Activity
• Recent Visitor Activity
• Recent Visitor Map
• Country/State/City/ISP
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30. “ Empowered Children Leads to
Empowered Society”
THANK YOU
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