This presentation discusses the Indian initiatives to the development of OERs in India and the challenges therein. WikiEducator India is also discussed.

1. Open Educational Resources:
Development and Challenges for India
Ramesh Sharma
Indira Gandhi National Open University
February 01, 2013
Connecting Online for Instruction and Learning

2. What
are…

3. Open Things…
• Open Access
• Open Content
• Open Course ware
• Open Source Software
• Open Education / e-Learning
• Open Educational Resources
• …and many more things

4. What is an
OER?
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5. The Commonwealth of Learning (COL)
defines Open Educational Resources (OER)
as ‘materials offered freely and openly to
use and adapt for teaching, learning,
development and research’.
http://www.col.org/resources/crsMaterials/Pages/OCW-OER.aspx

6. Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and
learning materials that are freely available online
for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor,
student or self-learner. Examples of OER include:
full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures,
homework assignments, quizzes, lab and classroom
activities, pedagogical materials, games,
simulations, and many more resources contained in
digital media collections from around the world.
OER Commons
http://www.oercommons.org/

7. OER defined:
OER are 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. Open
educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules,
textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools,
materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.
- The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

8. Open Educational Resources
free and openly licensed educational materials that can be used for
• teaching,
• learning,
• research, and
• other purposes.
The term was first used at a UNESCO conference in 2002, although OERs
were being produced and used before that time. For instance, the MIT
OpenCourseWare project, which began in 2001, was one of the first major
initiatives of the OER movement.

9. Types of Open Educational Resources
• Courses
• Course materials
• Content modules
• Learning objects
• Collections, and
• Journals

10. open content / open practices
http://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/tag/open-content/

11. Course Related
OER Materials

15. Benefits

19. Open Educational Resources
in India
Development

20. A-VIEW

21. Indian Institute of Technology
Bombay (IITB)

22. Open Educational Resources for
Schools (OER4S)
http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/research-development/projects/open-educational-resources-for-schools-oer4s

23. National Knowledge Commission
Govt. of India
http://knowledgecommission.gov.in/focus/default.asp

24. National Programme on Technology
Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)
http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/index.php

25. The National Institute of Open
Schooling
http://oer.nios.ac.in/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

26. SAKSHAT
http://www.sakshat.ac.in/

27. National Council of Educational
Research and Training
http://www.ncert.nic.in/index.html

28. Online Post Graduate Diploma in E-Learning (PGDEL)
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)
http://pgdel.ignouonline.ac.in/pgdel/aboutthepgdel.html

29. eGyanKosh
http://www.egyankosh.ac.in/

30. FlexiLearn
Indira Gandhi National Open University
http://www.ignouflexilearn.ac.in/flexilearn/

31. Challenges

32. http://wikieducator.org/images/d/d7/PID_386.pdf

34. http://knowledgecommission.gov.in/downloads/documents/wg_open_course.pdf

35. OER
Foundation

37. WikiEducator

38. http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page

39. WikiEducator - India
http://wikieducator.org/India

41. Thank You !