Presentation by Prof. Uma Kanjilal for Workshop on Open Educational Resources and Open Licensing Policies in the Indian Context on 22 February 2013 at India International Centre, New Delhi.

1. Open Educational Resources
& Open Licensing Policies in
the Indian Context:
IGNOU Perspective
Uma Kanjilal
Indira Gandhi National Open University

3. The University has contributed
towards nation building in a great
way and evolved successful models
of democratization of
education, training and capacity
building.

4. The Mandate of the University
 Access to higher education to all segments of society
 Provide high quality, innovative and need-based
programmes at different levels, to all those who require
them;
 Reach out to the disadvantaged at affordable costs; and
 promote, coordinate and regulate the standards of
education offered through open and distance learning in
the country.

5. IGNOU At A Glance
• Established in 1985; Programmes offered: 1987
• Students : 2.9 million (12% of total higher education; about
50% of total distance education)
• Academic programmes: #445
• Courses on offer: #3,000
• Regional Centres: 67
• Study Centres/ Tele-learning Centres: #3107
• Teachers & academics: 447; Admin staff: 1219
• Tutors/ Counsellors: # 36,000
• Offer outside India: 36 countries / 67 Centres

6. IGNOU’s Technology Enhanced
Learning: Present Status
 5 educational channels (Gyan Darshan)- also available on DTH
and IP TV
 37 FM radio stations (Gyan Vani) with Interactive radio
counseling facility
 Internet Radio and webcasting
 Pan African e-Network Project
 eGyanKosh (e=electronic, gyan= knowledge, kosh=
repository)
 FlexiLearn initiative for open courses27
 Online programmes in complete virtual environment

7. http://www.egyankosh.ac.in
Journey to e-content development
started with digitisation and
repository building
 Over 95% of the self-instructional print material of the University
covering more than 2300 courses available
 More 2500 video programmes available on YouTube with the
metadata link in the repository
 More than 1,67, 593 registered users and visits per day
around 500 from all over the world

8. Webcasting of Broadcast channels Gyan
Darshan and Gyan Vani
IGNOU is the first Open University in the
world to adopt OER Policy CC- BY-NC-SA
license with Board of Management
Approval

9. http://www.ignouflexilearn.ac.in/
 First MOOC (Massive Online Open Course)
portal in the country with crowdsourcing
philosophy
 Open Course Portal for Course wise
registration and assessment with
modular approach for earning course
credits for a certificate, diploma or degree

10. • More than 900 courses available with
63699 registered users.
• E-portfolio for a formal record of all
formal and informal studies carried out
by the registered learner

11. Virtual Classrooms
27 online programmes- all processes online right from
registration to certification with the following features:
 Walk in admission
 Integrated multimedia courseware (personalized learning space )
 Online counseling and mentoring (web conferencing, text based
chatting)
 Assignment Management System
 E-tutor based practical
 Group based online seminar
 Online Project platform
 Online Term End Examination (proctored)

12. IGNOU Adopts OER Policy
 IGNOU envisions to be a leading developer of
OERs with the use of its own as well as other
OERs fully incorporated into teaching and
learning at all levels within the University
system
 The policy is adopted to guide the
promotion, development and usage of OERs
and to further ensure that the highest standards
of education are achieved thereof.

13. Purpose of the OER Policy
 Make materials available under open license
 Support voluntary participation of Faculty and others in
developing OER content
 Clarify publication rights and licensing issues
 Provide guidance in development and review of OER
materials prior to sharing them on a worldwide scale
 Define collaborations within and without the university with
the intent to allow access to the open content.

14. Licenses for IGNOU OER Repository
 In general all IP and the outputs and outcomes arising
from that IP will be owned by the creator whereas
IGNOU will derive benefits from the outcomes.
 All materials released on the IGNOU OER Repository
site will be covered under the Creative Commons
Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.5 India (CC
BY-NC-SA)

15. Concluding Remarks
 Developing culture of sharing and re-using – awareness
building
 Contextualizing and mapping to curriculum – implications
for teaching/ learning and new methods of assessment
and accreditation
 user-friendly tools to locate and retrieve OER
 Formats and Interoperability

16. ukanjilal@ignou.ac.in
Thank You
ukanjilal@ignou.ac.in