The role of new media in content generation by the community

1. The Role of New Media in
Knowledge Generation by the
Community
A Case Study of NROER

3. • Connecting knowledge to life outside the school
• Ensuring that learning shifts away from rote methods
• Enriching curriculum so that it goes beyond textbooks
• Making examinations flexible
• Primacy to children’s experiences, their voices and their
participation
• Need for adults to change their perception of children as
passive receivers of knowledge

4. • Children can be active participants in the construction of knowledge
• Highlights the value of interaction with: environment, peers, older
people to enhance learning
• Learning tasks must be designed to enable children to seek out
knowledge from sites other than textbooks.
• Need therefore to move away from rigid lesson planning to
planning and designing activities that challenge children to think
and try out what they are learning.

5. New Media as a pedagogical tool
The New Media is not just about new ways/technology of
creating & delivering media messages but it is also a
pedagogical tool to make education system more
efficient.
Collaboration, creation, contextualized resources

6. Indian education system & New Media
New media can offer solution to various challenges
faced by the India education system
– Enormity of young population
– Inflexibility in the education system
– Multiplicity of language
– Reach and access to education
– Textbook centric education
– Lack of teachers
– Content generation as centralized activity

7. Government’s initiatives
• National Policy of ICT in school education
• ICT @schools Scheme
• campus –based wireless internet facilities and 24/7 labs
• ICT coverage to all 360 universities and 17, 625 colleges, in a phased manner.
• Intellectual hubs – universities @ Colleges- through networks, e Resources, online
learning, access to global resources, archiving of content, and e learning
management techniques.
• Broadband, wireless, digital subscriber line to create a platform for collaboration
amongst teachers and learners to digitize Indian intellectual content

8. New Media & OER movement
• The phenomenon of OER is made possible by the widespread use if ICT and open
source technologies.
• Over the last decade , national institutions have embraced the concept of
collaborative teaching and learning practices.
• Most OER initiative in India have focused on increasing the quantum of OER in
higher education.
• One of the early venture was CEC an inter-university centre of the UGC
• Other major initiative includes:
NPTEL
OSCAR
E GYANKOSH
SHAKSHAT
VASAT
NROER

9. Why OER
• OER has a great potential to support educational transformation.
• While its educational value lies in the idea of using resources as an integral method of
communication of curriculum in educational courses (i.e. resource-based learning)
• its transformative power lies in the ease with which such resources, when digitized,
can be shared via the Internet.
• It promotes community participation as it allows people to Four Rs Framework: Reuse,
Revise, Remix, Redistribute
• There is only one key differentiator between an OER and any other educational
resource: its license. Thus, an OER is simply an educational resource that incorporates a
license that facilitates reuse, and potentially adaptation, without first requesting
permission from the copyright holder.

16. Background
• National Policy of ICT in School Education
• ICT @Schools

17. • Development of e content
• Collaborative creation of e content
• Widespread dissemination of e content
• Setting up of state and national level digital repositories
• Development of digital resources as per the National policy on open
standards ( Open and free access to resources developed under any state
funded project)

18. Connecting Knowledge, Connecting People, Open
education for all
• Interdisciplinary linkages should be encouraged
• Making variety of resources available
• Involving community in creation of content

19. Connecting knowledge

25. Connecting People

31. The process
• Collate
• Curate
• Creating – In house/ outsourcing
• Review
• Upload

32. Review Process- level 1
Review of content available
at CIET
NROER
Approved
Content
CIET
Third party
evaluation
Review of content uploaded by
user/teacher
NROER
Approved
Content
Uploaded
by user
In
house/third
evaluation

33. Review Process – level 2
Viewership Comments Ratings

34. References
• National Policy on Information and Communication Technology on School
Education
• ICT @ School Scheme
• National Curriculum Framework 2005
• Piloting of General Education Quality Analysis/Diagnosis Framework ( GEQAF) in
India
• National Focus Group on Educational Technology- Position Paper
• Nroer.gov.in
• Ictcurriculum.gov.in