Open Educational Resources and Libraries

1. Commonwealth Educational
Media Centre for Asia
Open Educational
Resources and Libraries
Sanjaya Mishra
Director, Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia

2. A Childhood riddle…
What is it that does not
get reduced after sharing
with someone else?
KNOWLEDGE

3. Role of LIS Professionals
 Collect, organise and
disseminate
information
 In a library, procure,
classify, index and
retrieve books/
information for the
users
 Information
intermediary
 Collection building
 Classifier
 Cataloguer
 Indexer
 Reference Librarian
 Serials Librarian
 Others…

4. What we actually do?
 Bibliographic control (knowledge about
where you can find knowledge)
 Process knowledge in various formats to help
easy retrieval
 Optimise available resources (through
collaboration)
 Create enabling environment for learning and
research

5. Changing Roles… Changing Times…
 Collector
 Curator
 Communicator
 Creator
… of KNOWLEDGE Resources

6. Knowledge Resources Formats
 Books
 Periodicals
 A/V Media
 Online Web Resources
– Text
– Audio
– Video
– Graphics
– Animation
Learning
Objects

7. Knowledge Commons
 Who owns knowledge?
 Researcher stands on the shoulder of giants
 Previous research is necessary for new
research
 Knowledge is Free – Information is not.
 Data Information Knowledge

8. OER: 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. 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.

10. What is “Open”?
 It’s about open license used to share
educational material
– Reuse (copy verbatim)
– Revise (adapt and edit)
– Remix (combine with other materials)
– Redistribute (share with others)
– Retain (make, own and control copies)
 No permission required as long as the open
license is respected

11. Technology and Platforms
 Wikipedia, WikiEducator, Wikivarsity
 Wikispaces, etc.
 Connexions
 MIT OpenCourseware
 OLI-CMU
 OpenLearn
 OER Commons
 Directory of OER

12. 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

13. OER Paris Declaration 2012:
Recommendations related to
Institutions
 Promote awareness and use of OER
 Improve media and information literacy
 Develop institutional policies for OER
 Educate stakeholders on open licenses and
copyright
 Promote quality assurance and peer review of OER
 Develop strategic partnerships to avoid duplication
of work as well as technologies
 Encourage and support research on OER
 Develop tools to facilitate access to OER

14. OER Paris Declaration 2012:
Recommendations related to
Teachers
 Promote awareness and use of OER
 Develop and use OER
 Engage in peer review of OER
 Promote quality of OER
 Develop OER in local languages
 Contextualize OER
 Conduct research on OER
 Share learning materials prepared

15. Role of Librarians in OER Projects
 Copyright and Licensing
 Evaluate and select OER
 Management of OER repositories
 Discovery of OER sources
 Preservation of OER
 Tagging, Description and classification
 Creation of OER
Source: http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/2012/492

16. How Librarians can Promote OER?
 Collect OER for the library users
 Curate OER materials
 Include OER in the OPAC
 Create OER Repositories
 Educate users about OER
 Create OER in different disciplines

17. THANK YOU