Presentation at the Central University, Hyderabad on 19 December 2012 during the National Seminar cum workshop on ICT based Learning in Higher education

1. Commonwealth Educational
Media Centre for Asia
Open Educational
Resources and
eLearning
Indian Experiences
Sanjaya Mishra
Director, Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia

2. Structure of the Presentation
• Contexts
• Personal Experiences
• Challenges
• Possibilities and Future

3. Enabling Environment
 National IT Task-Force Recommendation
(1998)
 National Mission on Education through ICT
(2009)

4. eLearning Scenario
 NetVarsity, 1996
 IGNOU, 1999
 Tamil Virtual
University, 2000
 IIM, Bangalore 2002/3
 NPTEL, 2007
 NMEICT, 2009

5. R & D for Online Learning
Instructional design model for Web
environment
A generic model of ID – ERIC that
can be applied to online learning

6. OER-based eLearning
 Online programme on
eLearning
 Intensive with F2F
component for skill
training
 Covers instructional
design theory and
practice
 Total online course
development
experience, with
mentoring
 OER-based content
reviewed by experts

7. Open Educational Resources
 teaching, learning and research materials in
any medium, digital or otherwise, that reside
in the public domain or have been released
under an open license that permits no-cost
access, use, adaptation and redistribution by
others with no or limited restrictions. Open
licensing is built within the existing
framework of intellectual property rights as
defined by relevant international conventions
and respects the authorship of the work

8. History and Developments
 MIT OpenCourseWare, 2001
 UNESCO Forum on the Impact of Open
Courseware for Higher Education in
Developing Countries, 2002
 OLI-CMU, 2002
 OER Paris Declaration 2012

9. What is “Open”?
 It’s about open license used to share
educational material
 Reuse
 Revise
 Remix
 Redistribute
 No permission required as long as the open
license is respected

10. OER use Case Study 1
• SLM Development, 2008
• Sanjaya Mishra trained
20 individuals to write
self-learning materials
• Used weekly reading and
GoogleGroup
• Wiki-based Tasks to
develop SLM using wiki
• Learning
contract, certification, o
nline activities, visible
outputs

11. OER use Case Study 2
• Bangladesh Open
School, SLM Training
• F2F and Online
training
• Development of Units
• Collaborative course
Development

12. Advantages of Wiki-based OER
 Updating and revision of courses become easy
 Learner participation in course, and their engagement
will improve
 Some of the user generated content may be useful in
revision
 Courses will become live and dynamic rather than static
and outdated
 Quality of the course would improve as it will adhere to
copyright regulations (as it will be open)
 Open content licensing policy can be adopted
 Courses can be developed fast using OER

13. Advantages of Wiki-based OER
 Print copies can be developed automatically using
PediaPress PDF server
 Print-on-demand facility can be used
 Less paper use, and digital preservation of content with
each editing recorded
 Resources other than main text can also be integrated
including Slideshare, YouTube, MindMap, Google
Calender, etc.
 Online quiz, and self-assessment activities can be in-
built within the learning material
 Discussion Forum can be built around lessons

14. Integrating LMS and Wiki
 Use wiki to develop open courses
 Educational transaction happen within
Learning Management System
 Integrate multiple media to provide multi-
channel learning
 Learning as service, content as product,
certification as quality assurance

15. Challenges
 Growing demands for higher education
 Assuring Quality of mass individualized
instruction
 Capacity building of teachers
 Meeting the needs of NEW learner (digital
natives)
 Reducing Digital Divide by NKN
 Oral content to Digital Content creation
 Rethinking Assessment and evaluation

16. Possibilities and Future
 Bandwidth problem reduced… IP6 and
Internet 2 coming up
 Teacher Empowerment by Read-Write Web
 Culture of sharing and transparency
 Collaborative Learning, Mastery
Learning, Just in Time Learning possible
 Increased quality of educational transaction
 Value for money – for the students, for the
parents and for the Govt.

17. CEMCA’s engagement
 Developing a course on OER-based eLearning
to promote capacity building of teachers
 Promoting the concept of Virtual Open
Schooling
 Encouraging integration of ICT in teacher
education
 Developing vocational courses on need-based
areas for release as OER
 Offering scholarships to women teachers to
study eLearning

18. THANK YOU