This document discusses opening up education through open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs), with specific reference to open universities. It provides background on key concepts like openness, important milestones in open and online education, examples of open initiatives, and defines OER. It describes the educational materials and initiatives of Netaji Subhas Open University to promote OER, including their OER policy objectives, repository, and a prototype MOOC course design using open-source platforms. The goal of openness in education is to democratize knowledge and provide equitable, quality education for all through accessible, affordable resources.

1. Opening Up Education with MOOC:A
Special Reference to Open
Universities
Barnali Roy Choudhury
Assistant Professor, Library & Information Science
Netaji Subhas Open University

2. Openness
Openness
Accessibility
Time
Pace
Place
Program
ming
People

3. lGoals of Openness...
Democratization
of knowledge
Access to
information for
all
Equitable
quality
education for
all
Sustainable
Development
2030

4. Openness…

5. Opening Up Education
“Opening up Education” was launched in September
2013 by European Commission as a European move
to innovate learning and teaching through ICT and to
modernize education for learners in all educational
sectors through OER (and MOOCs).

6. Important Milestones
• ‘Online Education’ was initiated1950s
• Entry of the Internet with the power of communication and
interaction became widely available for education
1990
• Coined the term open content1998
• Term “Open Educational Resources" was first adopted at
UNESCO's 2002 Forum
2002
• The ICDE (International Council for Open and Distance Education
)emphasized on open, flexible and distance learning with OER
for massive educational system.
2007
• TheCape Town Open Education Declaration was released on 22
January 2008,[25] urging governments and publishers to make
publicly funded educational materials available at no charge via the
internet
2008
• EADTU (European Association of Distance Teaching Universities)
Conference 2011 was focused on combined power of the ‘classical’
Open Universities model and the new ‘digital openness’
2011
• The Paris OER Declaration was approved during the 2012 OER
World Congress held at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris.
2012

7. Open Initiatives...
 Open access, Open collaboration Open content Open
communication Open data Open definition Open design
Open education Open gaming Open government Open
innovation Open knowledge Open patent Open research
Open science Open-source architecture Open-
source software Open-source governance Open source
hardware Open standards

8. Open Educational Resources (OERs)
 Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of
educational materials that are in the public domain
or introduced with an open license. The nature of
these open materials means that anyone can legally
and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them. OERs
range from textbooks to curricula, syllabi, lecture
notes, assignments, tests, projects, audio, video and
animation. UNESCO, Paris

9. Educational Materials of NSOU
Educational Materials
Print Materials
Learning
Resources
Research
Materials
Institution
al
Resources
Non-Print Materials
Audio
Visual
Resources
Webinar Recorded
Seminar
Lectures
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
CC BY-NC-SA

10. Print Resources
Print Resources
Learning Resources
Syllabus
Self-Directed Study Materials
Lab-based Practices
Assessment
Research Materials
ETDs
Faculty research papers/articles
Edited Research Volume
Institutional Resources
Proceedings of
Conferences/seminars
Journal/Newsletters, Endowment
lecture
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
CC BY-NC-SA

11. Initiatives taken by NSOU (OER)
Capacity building of Academic and teaching staff
Institutionalization of OER policy
Institutional OER Committee
OER Repository of Netaji Subhas Open University (under
construction)

12. Policy Objectives:
To ensure affordable and universally accessible teaching-learning resources in
order to enrich learning experiences;
Make easily sharable materials with the provisions of open licensing systems
like creative commons;
Updated materials which can be edited, augmented, customized, combined
and reformatted by anyone;
Amplify access of learning resources;
 Assist with both teaching and learning @ free of cost or in less expense.
Support voluntary participation of Faculty and others in developing OER
content
Protect intellectual works from plagiarism.

13. Contents of Open University
Self Directed
Learning Tools
(SDLs)
OER
Meta-Learning module , which is a kind of
guide where learners are directed to the scope
and coverage of the respective topic, objective
of the study , a list of resources (available PDF
files, Doc files, URLs , video tutorials, class
lectures, PPTs etc) where they can find related
information of that topic.
Self-Learning Materials (SLMs)
Study materials,
PCP programs,
evaluation systems

14. OER Repository

15. Scope of widening up Education through

16. world is now switching over from basic US-based
MOOCs to MOOCs with EU-OU style
Which have added value for learners

17. MOOC
Network technology enabled distance learning;
Started in 2008 as an experiment in university of manitoba;
Coursera, udacity, edx ;
Free courses designed to be accessed by large number of
students across the world ;
Students are expected to learn through cooperation in the
cyberspace
The course credits are only for certifying certain
competencies
The latest statistics furnished by class central—the MOOC
aggregator—reveal that currently there are about 4,200 moocs
offered by more than 500 universities globally.

18. Benefits
Possibility to reach large numbers
Possibility to generate revenue
through certification, sponsorship,
employee recruitment

20. Popular MOOCs In India…
 Swayam
 NPTEL
 IIT Bombay etc.

21. Prototype Course design of MOOC (FOSS platform) for
NSOU
Operating System: Linux (Ubuntu 12.04)
Web Server: Apache
Database Management Systems: MySQL (SQL YOG community)
Programming Language: PHP (5.X)
Education based software: Moodle (2.X)

22. Sl.
No.
Steps Tasks
1. Design of course structure including its all
units-sections-subsections
Develop a topic based course on Information
Technology including four modules.
2. Identification of resources– related to target
courses
Text, Audio, Video, class lecture note, wikis, etc
on IT application
3. Parameters of selection for resource inclusion As per learners readability status;
Ease of accessibility and affordability;
CC-BY licensed materials
4. Selection of objects – audio, video and text CC-By licensed materials
5. Organization (tagging with existing curricula
course-paper-module-unit-section-subsection)
NSOU MLIS Study material structure
Organization of Module 1: Library Automation;
Module 2: Database Management; Module 3:
Operating System and Programming1 and
Module 4: Operating System and Programming
2 consisting lessons, files, folders, links etc.
6. Development of online learning portal Open Educational Resources
Integration of OER based learning environment

23. Moodle Home (http://localhost/moodle)

24. Available Courses

25. Topic based course

26. Enlisted tentative activities & Resources…

27. OER available in pdf format

28. Evaluation

29. Learners to be producers rather than consumers of
content
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