Presentation by Dr. Sanjaya Mishra, Director, CEMCA on 16 October 2012 at the National Consultative Workshop on Virtual Open Schooling in India organized with National Institute of Open Schooling.

1. Commonwealth Educational
Media Centre for Asia
Emerging Trends for
Open Schooling
Sanjaya Mishra

2. Open Schooling in India
 NIOS and NCOS
 17 State Open Schools
 Open Schools in each State in 12th Plan
 World’s largest Open School system
 NIOS complete online admission system
 ODES system at NIOS
 OER initiative at NIOS
 Increased student access to ICTs

3. ICT Trends in India (up to March
2012)
 Internet subscribers at 228.6 lakhs
 Internet users at 10.2% of the population
 45 million Facebook users
 908.36 million Mobile users (August 2012)
 Tele-density at about 80%
Source: Internet Service Provider Association of India
http://www.ispai.in/Stat1-InternetSubsIncludingBroadban.php

4. Innovating Pedagogy 2012
 Pedagogy of eBooks
 Badges to accredit learning
 Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)
 Seamless learning
 Learning analytics
 Personal inquiry learning

5. Pedagogy of eBooks
 Can be delivered in low cost tablets like
Aakash
 Books are multimedia featured due to
advancement in technology such as HTML5
and ePub standards
 Change in ODL pedagogical approach from
supplementary to integrated media rich and
interactive

6. Seamless Learning
 Harnessing the power of network
 Anytime, Anywhere with Internet and Mobile
technologies
 Collaborate with co-learners as well as others

7. Personal Inquiry Learning
 Promotes autonomy of learner
 Help create personal learning environments
on the Internet
 Facilitates networking with others
 Build learning environment using Web 2.0

8. Badges to Accredit Learning
 Badges are frameworks to accredit learning
that happen outside formal learning
environment
 Mozilla Foundation has developed Open
Badges Infrastructure that can be integrated
into other online learning environments
 Linking Open Educational Resources to Open
Badges can increase “Openness”

9. Massive Open Online Courses
 Emergence of platforms supporting Open
Educational Resources
 Availability of free access resources online
 Network technology enabled distance
learning
 Started in 2008 as an experiment in
University of Manitoba
 Examples: Coursera, Udacity, edX

10. Virtual Schools
 First Online High School started in 1994
(CompuHigh)
 Over 200 virtual schools are there around the
world, mostly in the United States
 Also in Australia, Canada, South Korea, and
United Kingdom

11. Open High School of Utah
 Small in student
enrolment
 Totally free education
 Uses Open Educational
Resources
 Accredited courses
 Also provides one-to-
one tutoring online

12. Florida Virtual School
 Free education
 Wide ranges for courses
 Flexibility
 Accredited
 State funded

13. Virtual Open Schooling in India
 Readiness at NIOS
 Platform of NCOS
 Increased access to Internet
 Pilot online teaching and learning
 Feasibility study
 Action Plan: Technology, Platform, Courses,
Interaction, Assessment, Certification,
Regulatory framework for Credit Transfer

14. THANK YOU