ICT integration in Teacher Education: Using Open Educational Resources
1. Commonwealth Educational
Media Centre for Asia
ICT integration in
Teacher Education
Using Open Educational Resources
Sanjaya Mishra
Director, Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia
12 February 2013
2. Commonwealth Educational Media
Centre for Asia
Established by the Commonwealth of
Learning, Vancouver, Canada in 1994;
Agreement with Govt of India in 1998; Status
of a Diplomatic mission in 2000
To assist governments and institutions to
expand the scale, efficiency and quality of
learning by using multiple media in open,
distance and technology-enhanced learning
3. What are the big challenges?
Number of untrained teachers, including
vocational education teachers
Concern for quality of teacher training
Access to technology
Faith on technology to assist improving
access and quality of education
Quality of student learning (joyful, as well as
learning for living)
4. COL and Teacher Education
Quality assurance of teacher education
Green Teacher programme
OER for English language teaching
TESSA Partnership (for teacher education
materials)
Child Friendly Schools
5. CEMCA: Teacher Education Focus
Teacher education institutions adopt blended
approach to ICT integration in continuing
professional development
– Developing a Community of Practice for Teacher
Educators
– Imparting ICT skills to Teacher Educators
Underlying belief: increased use of ICT by
teacher educators will play a cascading
effect on appropriate use of ICT by teachers
in the classroom
7. Technology Innovation: COL Tablet
server
A tablet used as
a server can host
an LMS or CMS
such as Moodle
or Wordpress
pre-loaded with
learning
materials. An external battery can power
the wireless router off-grid for
up to 12 hours.
A portable wireless router can broadcast a
network that students can connect to http://techpaper.colfinder.org/
9. OER: What and Why
• Emergence of the term OER, 2002
• National Knowledge Commission, India
(2007 Recommendation on OER)
• OER Paris Declaration, 2012
• Sharing of educational materials as national
resources
• Providing opportunity for lifelong learning,
and continuous professional development
• Strengthening ODL approaches through
quality learning materials
10. Open Licensing
To share educational material
– Reuse
– Revise
– Remix
– Redistribute
No permission required as long as the open
license is respected
11. What needs to be done for TE?
Understanding open license
Developing OER in teaching subjects
OER Policy development
13. OER as panacea for all problems?
Capacity building of teachers and teacher
educators on ICT use and integration of OER
in teaching and learning
Creating a culture of sharing and contribution
to OER
Being prepared to handle ICT empowered
learners
Collaboration through Community of Practice
Teacher education to think about pedagogy, content knowledge of teachers, use of technology, students concerns, as well as the social cultural milieu of the teachers.