This document discusses open educational resources (OERs) for teacher education. It describes The Open University's role in developing OERs through programs like TESSA, English in Action, TESS-India, OpenLearn and FutureLearn. TESSA has developed a bank of multimedia OER materials used across sub-Saharan Africa, with some programs reaching over 500,000 teachers. TESS-India aims to develop flexible, high-quality OERs to support over 7 million Indian teachers through classroom-focused resources. The document outlines the growth of OER programs in improving global teacher education.
Q-Factor General Quiz-7th April 2024, Quiz Club NITW
Teacher Education Quality Through Open Educational Resources
1. Teacher Education and Open
Educational Resources
Focus on Quality Assurance
Professor Frank Banks
Director, International Development in Teacher
Education
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2. • The UK’s largest university, teaching 35% of all UK
part-time undergraduate students
• Over 296,000 students
• 156 postgraduate and 397 undergraduate courses
• The OU currently makes over 44,000 academic awards annually
• The OU is top in the UK for student satisfaction in
the latest National Student Survey - and has
always been in the top three. 2
3. Teacher Education Quality
….the standards achieved by the
student-teachers are outstanding”.
- Inspectorate Northern Ireland
Sept. 2010.
1995 & 2009
‘Outstanding’ – Ofsted
March 2011.
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4. How can teacher education by Open and Distance
Learning deliver high quality?
monitoring ?
High standards in
course presentation
INPUT
?
High standards in
student assessment OUTCOMES
evaluation Improving quality year-on-year
through review and development
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5. Quality assurance framework can apply to
all programme components
Teaching
Enquiries Programme
through
Admissions Structure learning Assessment Exit Advice
Advice resources and
school-based
activities
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6. support beyond school
support in school
Supporting new
classroom
changes in activities
classroom
practices professional development materials for
teachers and classroom use,
new tools, HT & peer support
peer support through
meetings and visits;
wider project support
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7. Problems in Maintaining Quality
High Volume
Geographically dispersed
Classroom practice and
school-based elements
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8. Principles to Assure Quality
explicit agreed outcomes
prescribed common framework
comprehensive monitoring
- indirect
- direct
- interconnected
- systematic
structural ‘triggers’ to identify weaknesses
with follow up
interconnected procedures
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10. Six Section titles
Common Framework
– Iraqi Teachers Group work
One common structure
Questioning
Six Themes
Subject in practice
Titles suggested by New teaching ideas
Iraqi teachers
Teaching all pupils
Evaluation of pupils
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11. Six titles Structure of all titles
Group work
Questioning
Questioning
Objective
General introduction
Subject in practice
Issue 1
Issue 2
New teaching ideas Between
Issue 3 3 and 5 issues
Issue 4
Teaching all pupils ….
Conclusion
10 hours
Evaluation of pupils
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12. Structure of all issues
Questioning Issue 5 :
Higher order questions
Objective
General introduction
Introduction
Issue 1
Issue 2
Activities
Issue 3
1
Issue 4
2
Issue 5
Conclusion
Conclusion
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13. Features of all activities
Issue 5 :
Higher order questions
Introduction
- heading
Activities
- purpose
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2 - timing
- instructions
Conclusion
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14. Six Themes Each Theme =
Group work
10 hours
Questioning
3-5 issues
Subject in practice A maximum of 8 activities
At least half of the activities
New teaching ideas are for teacher to try out in
their classrooms
Teaching all pupils Video clip(s) up to 10
minutes
Evaluation of pupils
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17. TESSA
• Bank of original Open
Education multi-media
Resources (OERs)
• Materials in different
formats and versions
• Integration into a range
of existing programmes
• Online and print
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20. New content authored for
TESSA
Specific audience -
teacher educators and
teachers
Audio and text material
organised in modules
Ten user generated
versions available
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26. TESSA Material adoption
TESSA is being used in sub-degree, B.Ed and CPD
courses, for example
• Open University, Sudan 67,000 B.Ed
• University of South Africa 1,045 B.Ed
• Kyambogo University, Uganda 14,000 Diploma
• National Teachers’ Institute, Nigeria 145,000 CPD
Total: ~ 500,000 teachers in 2013
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33. TESS-
India
Teacher Education through School-based Support in India 33
34. The Indian and British
Governments agreed…
“… that cooperation will continue and be extended into the areas of
universalization of secondary education, school leadership and
management, practical support and advice in the implementation of
vocational education and a teacher development programme that will
utilise the latest technologies to extend the scale and reach of training
to millions of teachers.”
Joint Statement between the Ministry of Human Resources Development of the Government of India and the
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills on behalf of the Government and the Devolved
Administrations of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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35. TESS-India:
Flexible, high quality, infinitely adaptable,
freely available OERs
to support teacher professional
development… in the classroom 35
40. • www.tessafrica.net TESSA
• www.eiabd.com/ English in Action
• http://www.open.ac.uk/about/international-developmen
TESS-India
• http://www.open.edu/openlearn/ Openlearn
• http://futurelearn.com/ Futurelearn (MOOC)
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Notes de l'éditeur
Talk about OU and PGCE and quality.
23/01/13 Welcome to the TESS-India family. This week – this workshop marks an important part of the TESS-India project. The point at which ideas become reality and the plans that many of us have been making for so long start to unfold. This week is the point at which the TESS-India project is born and I ’ d like to thank you for being here this week to make it happen. I ’ m going to tell you more about the project in a minute and how this workshop fits into the overall plan but I want to start by reflecting on how important your contribution is to this project at this critical point. During this week we ’ ll work together to develop a framework for a project that will reach millions of teachers and many millions of children across India and in some of the most challenging circumstances. Over the life of the first phase of the project we ’ ll reach 1 million teachers. Your ideas, your thinking, your contributions this week will frame the way that these teachers change their practice and frames the profound effect that this project will have on the lives of many more millions of Indian children. In two years time and more – when we look back on the project ’ s successes (and no doubt set backs too) – you ’ ll be able to point at your specific contribution, your ideas, your hard work and you ’ ll be able to say, I was there at the start. So this isn ’ t going to be a run of the mill workshop. It ’ s going to be hard work as we tie down what ’ s important and what ’ s less important – and we ’ re going to have to argue our corners and make compromises. But by the end of Thursday we will have achieved a great deal. We will have set out the academic and pedagogic direction of this exciting and innovative approach to teacher professional development – and we ’ ll be exhausted! But happy, too.
23/01/13 The project links to a high level gov to gov MoU
23/01/13 Working together to produce a bank of teacher education resources, using the OU ’ s proven methodology the content of which will be created in support of both primary & secondary Indian curriculum, and authored by Indian experts in collaboration with OU academics, with supported implementation in 7 states. But not just about creating stuff – also about developing a sustainable network of committed teacher educators from across India A key feature is the school-based nature of the teacher learning activities.
23/01/13 Bringing together significant partnerships: UK orgs in India – including BC, DFID, FCO Teacher Ed specialists at DU, IGNOU and elsewhere Across 7 States: Karnataka, MP, UP, Odisha, Bihar, Paschimbanga, Asom. NGOs including Pratham, Bharti Foundation, Katha. Adyhyan Technical specialists incl Cisco, Vodafone etc Opening up further partnership and funding opportunities and links to other projects