The document discusses the role of new media in knowledge generation through community participation. It outlines how new media can be used as a pedagogical tool to make education more efficient by promoting collaboration, creation of contextualized resources, and addressing challenges in the Indian education system like reach and access. It describes the Government's initiatives in promoting ICT in education as well as the open educational resources (OER) movement in India. The National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER) is highlighted as a platform that connects knowledge and people by making a variety of open resources available and involving the community in content creation.

1. The Role of New Media in
Knowledge Generation by the
Community
A Case Study of NROER

3. • Connecting knowledge to life outside the school
• Ensuring that learning shifts away from rote methods
• Enriching curriculum so that it goes beyond textbooks
• Making examinations flexible
• Primacy to children’s experiences, their voices and their
participation
• Need for adults to change their perception of children as
passive receivers of knowledge

4. • Children can be active participants in the construction of knowledge
• Highlights the value of interaction with: environment, peers, older
people to enhance learning
• Learning tasks must be designed to enable children to seek out
knowledge from sites other than textbooks.
• Need therefore to move away from rigid lesson planning to
planning and designing activities that challenge children to think
and try out what they are learning.

5. New Media as a pedagogical tool
The New Media is not just about new ways/technology of
creating & delivering media messages but it is also a
pedagogical tool to make education system more
efficient.
Collaboration, creation, contextualized resources

6. Indian education system & New Media
New media can offer solution to various challenges
faced by the India education system
– Enormity of young population
– Inflexibility in the education system
– Multiplicity of language
– Reach and access to education
– Textbook centric education
– Lack of teachers
– Content generation as centralized activity

7. Government’s initiatives
• National Policy of ICT in school education
• ICT @schools Scheme
• campus –based wireless internet facilities and 24/7 labs
• ICT coverage to all 360 universities and 17, 625 colleges, in a phased manner.
• Intellectual hubs – universities @ Colleges- through networks, e Resources, online
learning, access to global resources, archiving of content, and e learning
management techniques.
• Broadband, wireless, digital subscriber line to create a platform for collaboration
amongst teachers and learners to digitize Indian intellectual content

8. New Media & OER movement
• The phenomenon of OER is made possible by the widespread use if ICT and open
source technologies.
• Over the last decade , national institutions have embraced the concept of
collaborative teaching and learning practices.
• Most OER initiative in India have focused on increasing the quantum of OER in
higher education.
• One of the early venture was CEC an inter-university centre of the UGC
• Other major initiative includes:
NPTEL
OSCAR
E GYANKOSH
SHAKSHAT
VASAT
NROER

9. Why OER
• OER has a great potential to support educational transformation.
• While its educational value lies in the idea of using resources as an integral method of
communication of curriculum in educational courses (i.e. resource-based learning)
• its transformative power lies in the ease with which such resources, when digitized,
can be shared via the Internet.
• It promotes community participation as it allows people to Four Rs Framework: Reuse,
Revise, Remix, Redistribute
• There is only one key differentiator between an OER and any other educational
resource: its license. Thus, an OER is simply an educational resource that incorporates a
license that facilitates reuse, and potentially adaptation, without first requesting
permission from the copyright holder.

16. Background
• National Policy of ICT in School Education
• ICT @Schools

17. • Development of e content
• Collaborative creation of e content
• Widespread dissemination of e content
• Setting up of state and national level digital repositories
• Development of digital resources as per the National policy on open
standards ( Open and free access to resources developed under any state
funded project)

18. Connecting Knowledge, Connecting People, Open
education for all
• Interdisciplinary linkages should be encouraged
• Making variety of resources available
• Involving community in creation of content

19. Connecting knowledge

25. Connecting People

31. The process
• Collate
• Curate
• Creating – In house/ outsourcing
• Review
• Upload

32. Review Process- level 1
Review of content available
at CIET
NROER
Approved
Content
CIET
Third party
evaluation
Review of content uploaded by
user/teacher
NROER
Approved
Content
Uploaded
by user
In
house/third
evaluation

33. Review Process – level 2
Viewership Comments Ratings

34. References
• National Policy on Information and Communication Technology on School
Education
• ICT @ School Scheme
• National Curriculum Framework 2005
• Piloting of General Education Quality Analysis/Diagnosis Framework ( GEQAF) in
India
• National Focus Group on Educational Technology- Position Paper
• Nroer.gov.in
• Ictcurriculum.gov.in