This document discusses open educational resources (OER). It defines OER as teaching and learning materials that can be freely used and reused. The document traces the evolution of OER and examines the benefits and challenges of developing OER repositories. Some key benefits mentioned include reduced costs, improved access to educational resources, and opportunities for collaboration. Challenges include issues around copyright, quality assurance, and generating awareness of OER. The document also lists several initiatives in India to develop OER repositories and provide open access to educational content.

1. by
Dr S K Pulist
2013

2. • To explain the concept of Open Educational
Resources (OER)
• To trace the evolution of OER
• To examine the benefits and challenges
towards the development of OER
• To enlist the Indian initiatives for development
of the OER repositories

3. Defining OER
‘materials offered freely and openly to use and adapt
for teaching, learning, development and research’
--COL
‘teaching, learning, and research resources that reside
in the public domain or have been released under an
intellectual property license that permits their free use
and re-purposing by others.
--Hewlett Foundation

4. ‘the materials used to support education that may be
freely accessed, reused, modified, and shared which
includes all those online educational objects which
help in acquisition, processing, preservation and
retrieval of information at a later stage’
-- UNESCO
Continued…..Defining OER

5. Components of OER
Learning content
Tools
Implementation resources

6. Open Licensing

7. Attributes of OER
Access to open content free of charge;
Content licensed for re-use without much
restrictions;
Content designed conforming to the open
content standards and formats; and
Educational system/tools/software based on
Open Source software
Geser (2007)

8. Benefits
Allows learners more time to interact with
the material,
Enhances the learning experience,
Enables the learners to use ICT tools,
Repository of content accessible on
anywhere and anytime basis,
--WizIQ (2012)

9. Benefits …….continued
Helps in peer-to-peer learning,
Provides a space for collaborative learning,
Helps the students to undertake collaborative
projects, and
Enables the teachers and students to use
lectures as ‘flip class’ (Baker, 2000).

10. Benefits …….continued
Motivate students to participate in
pedagogical process,
Save on course development cost,
Ensure quality content for use in teaching and
learning,
Help contributing to the global OER
repository,
--Abhi, 2007

11. Benefits …….continued
Create ‘community of practice’ and
‘community of interest’,
Collaborate with experts for development of
learning objects,
Test latest technologies for delivering online
programmes, and
Ensure continuous development and capacity
building of teachers

12. Challenges
Faculty needs to be supported,
Faculty needs to be trained,
Copyright and IPR issues,
Accessibility of content,
Quality control and assurance mechanism,
Enhance the availability of content across
disciplines ,

13. Challenges …….continued
Printed copies of the content on demand,
To generate awareness about OER,
To ensure 24x7 internet connectivity,
To develop OER culture in the organisation at
all levels, and
Make the funds available for the OER
initiative
--COL, 2012

14. OER Policy Issues
Mechanism to share the content during their
employment with the institution,
Whether the content created will form part of
the job description,
Guidelines on use of ICT tools and their
version control,
Guidelines for QA and clearance of copyright
issues for sharing of content under open
licensing.
http://www.col.org/resources /publications/Pages/detail.aspx?PID=357

15. Indian Initiatives
A-VIEW (Amrita Virtual Interactive E-learning World)
e-GyanKosh
FlexiLearn
NCERT
NIOS-OER
NPTEL
OER4S (Homi Bhabha Centre for Sc Ed.)
OSCAR (IIT, Mumbai under Ekalavya Project).
Shakshat

16. http://aview.amrita.ac.in/

17. http://www.egyankosh.ac.in/

18. http://www.ignouflexilearn.ac.in/flexilearn/

19. http://ncert.nic.in/ncerts/textbook/textbook.htm

20. http://www.nios.ac.in/online-course-material.aspx

21. http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/

22. http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/research-development/projects/open-
educational-resources-for-schools-oer4s

23. http://oscar.iitb.ac.in/oscarHome.do;jsessionid=71850E51474C038380686931C2F2A
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24. http://www.sakshat.ac.in/

25. Thanks!