lecture by Dr. Sanjaya Mishra at the Annual Day Function of Department of Library and Information Science, University of Delhi on 22 April 2014.

1. Commonwealth Educational
Media Centre for Asia
Transition from Learner
to Life Long Learner
Sanjaya Mishra

2. Rare Events
 For teachers in the dept, this is regular; for
students, it is annual; for me it’s rare
 Thanks to all of you…
 Rare events are characterized by their
uncertainty, and randomness; therefore,
positive rare events should be cherished

3. What should I say?
 This is a rare event for me, and my presence
should be useful
 You should take-away something to
remember
 I did some research and thinking to say what I
want to say

4. Who is a Learner?
A Learner is one who has the following five
qualities:
 Relentless efforts
 Focus on target
 Controlled sleeping
 Only required eating
 Reduced emotional attachments

5. Today’s world need Life Long
Learners
 Inquisitiveness to learn anytime, anywhere, from any
source(ability to ask questions, and reflect on self)
 Media and information literacy skills (not accepting
information on its face-value, and having a critical
approach)
 Positive approach towards life and learning (increasing
the power of goodness, and reducing evil)
 Commitment to self, service, and society (love yourself,
but consider others while serving)
 Continuous improvement (perfection is only a word in
the dictionary)

6. Asymmetry in Distribution of
Knowledge and Education
 Not everyone is lucky to study at University
of Delhi
 It is utopian to think that asymmetry in
knowledge production and distribution can be
overcome easily
 But, certainly we can reduce that asymmetry
by contributing towards Knowledge Commons

7. Who Owns Knowledge?
 Knowledge is collective human intelligence
 Past knowledge is essential to create new
knowledge
 Society created Copyrights, Patents and
Trade Marks to protect individual’s economic
rights over their creation
 Printing press helped commodification of
knowledge
 It increased access to knowledge, but also
created knowledge haves and have nots

8. Towards Knowledge Commons
 Open Access
 Open Educational Resources
 Open Data
 Other Openness initiatives…

9. Thank You