"Bridging the gap: OER for increasing access, openness and performance" Presentation at University of Mumbai on 10th March,2016 during Open Education Week 2016, Organized by Department of Education, Department of Computer Science & Department of Information Technology

1. BRIDGING THE GAP: OER FOR
INCREASING ACCESS, OPENNESS
AND PERFORMANCE
Organized by
Department of Education,
Department of Computer Science &
Department of Information Technology
10th March,2016Ramesh Sharma

2. Learning Objects
http://www.itdl.org/journal/sep_04/article02.htm

3. Learning
Education
Access
ScienceData
Source
Govt

4. 4
Affordances of the Internet
Title : File:Internet map 1024.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Internet_map_1024.jpg
license : Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported

5. Available to other
faculties, students and
institutions.
Other educators can now
discover and reuse.
Learning activity
or resource
Creates
Designated as
OER on web
Adapted from Conole, G., McAndrew, P. & Dimitriadis, Y., 2010
Shares
with students
and other
faculty
Traditional sharing of
teaching materials
Sharing educational
resources as OER
Additional considerations:
• Clearing of copyright issues
• Formatting for web and accessibility for reuse
• Addition of descriptive metadata
• Publishing in repository, referatory or on the web
Educator
…sharing beyond the classroom

6. Image source: http://www.bihardays.com/
Defining an OER

7. OER: Definition
• 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. What is “Open”?
It’s about open license used to share
educational material
• Reuse
• Revise
• Remix
• Redistribute
• Retain
No permission required as long as the open
license is respected

9. OER World Map

10. Technology and Platforms

11. OER Paris Declaration 2012:
Recommendations related to
Government
• Promote awareness and use of OER
• Bridge digital divide by developing infrastructure
(broadband, mobile, electricity)
• Develop national policy for OER
• Promote use of Open licencing frameworks
• Support capacity building initiatives on OER
• Encourage and support research on OER
• Adopt open standards and technologies for
interoperability
• Encourage open license for materials produced
using public funds

12. Qingdao Declaration 2015

13. OER and Open Solutions …

14. Recommendations on Open
Educational Resources

15. Department Of Electronics & Information
Technology, Government Of India

16. http://www.sakshat.ac.in/Document/OER_Policy.pdf

17. 'Darakht-e danesh' means
"knowledge tree"

18. Open Courseware
Virtual University of Pakistan

19. OER PORTAL OF UNIVERSITY OF
MUMBAI

20. National Repository of OER

21. 21
Alternative copyright Licensing

22. Strategies…

23. Open Educational Practice (OEP)
A characteristic of Open
Educational Practice,
compared with
conventional forms of
professional practice, is
that it changes the
nature of relationships…
http://littlebylittlejohn.com/do-oer-funded-initiatives-impact-professional-practice/
- Allison Littlejohn, Lou McGill, Isobel Falconer, Jay Dempster

24. What this change is?
• Between academics and support staff (as people
work in multi-disciplinary teams, sharing areas of
expertise);
• Amongst academics (as teaching practice shifts from
individual practice to cross-institutional and inter-
institutional collaboration);
• Between academics and students (as teachers and
learners (who may not be registered with a university)
interact in new ways);
• Between academics and organisations {including the
university where they are employed} (as university
activities open up).
http://littlebylittlejohn.com/do-oer-funded-initiatives-impact-professional-practice/

25. What further we can do?

26. Explore… find… search…
Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education
http://www.iskme.org

27. Collaborate for content creation…

28. Author:
Document, remix, license, and share OER
http://wikieducator.org/User:Kalpanagupte/My_Projects

29. Curate…
Create a specific collection of OER for easy access and sharing
http://www.scoop.it/t/open-learning-news
http://www.scoop.it/t/open-educational-resources-oer

30. WikiEducator - India
http://wikieducator.org/India
Become a proud member of WikiEducator

31. Free professional development
opportunity from the OER Foundation

32. Thank you!