Presentation made on 19th March 2016 during the National Workshop on Development of Self Learning Materials (SLMs) in Open and Distance Learning (ODL) (Learning Materials for Higher Education) being held from March 14-20, 2016 (07 days) at Venue: Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Block, IGNOU Campus, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi -110068. This is being organised by Staff Training and Research Institute in Distance Education (STRIDE), Indira Gandhi National Open University.

1. OER in ODL:
Imperatives and way ahead for
India
19th March,2016Ramesh Sharma
National Workshop on Development of Self Learning Materials
(SLMs) in Open and Distance Learning (ODL)
(Learning Materials for Higher Education)
March 14-20, 2016 (07 days)
Indira Gandhi National Open University
Organized by STRIDE

2. Education as Priority…
XII Five Year Plan
• Excellence
• Equity
• Expansion
Challenges
Access
Quality
Innovation

3. Transforming India
Distinctive Profile of a Developed India
A nation where education with a
good value system is not denied
to any meritorious candidates
because of societal or economic
discrimination.
http://scroll.in/article/744333/apj-abdul-kalam-we-have-to-transform-india-in-five-areas-
where-india-has-core-competence

4. Distance … Technology …
https://internationalstudyabroad.wordpress.com/2013/
02/16/10-most-popular-distance-learning-universities-
in-india/
http://www.tonybates.ca/2012/02/10/is-open-and-
distance-learning-the-solution-for-developing-
countries/

5. Technology … Era of Globalisation
New Learners

6. Universal Learning

7. Knowledge and skills…
New Job roles

8. Challenges ..

9. Model of simultaneous teaching

10. SWAYAM… Indian Initiative on
MOOCs

11. OER …
http://classroom-aid.com/tag/oer/

12. Social benefits…

13. Learning …
Burden? Joy!

14. Communication across language
barriers …
Translator is currently available in English, Spanish, Italian and Mandarin.

15. Personalisation … Need Identification

16. Going mobile ..
http://moodle.itcilo.org/siyb/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=161

17. Diversity in learning experiences
http://www.growvc.com/blog/2012/01/the-old-cliche-knowledge-is-power/

18. Participation …
https://www.ids.ac.uk/team/participation

19. Visibility networks …
https://www.exeter.edu/summer_programs/7324_7372.aspx

20. Need Assessment … Care for
stakeholders
https://www.tapinto.net/articles/hands-on-baking-lesson-promotes-learning-through

21. Quality Matters …
http://www.weareteachers.com/blogs/post/2012/05/08/5-resources-for-the-flipped-classroom

22. Learning
Education
Access
ScienceData
Source
Govt

23. 23
Change in philosophy towards an “Open
Movement”
Open Source Software
Open Access
Open Licences
Open Science
Open Society
Open Educational
Resources
Open Data

24. 24
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

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• Alternative
copyright
Licensing
• A range of
financial
models
• Affordances
of the
Internet
• Change in
philosophy
Social Technical
LegalFinancial
What has enabled OER?

26. 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

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

28. 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.

29. 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

30. Defining the "Open" in Open Content
• Retain - the right to make, own, and control copies of the content
(e.g., download, duplicate, store, and manage)
• Reuse - the right to use the content in a wide range of ways (e.g.,
in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a video)
• Revise - the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content
itself (e.g., translate the content into another language)
• Remix - the right to combine the original or revised content with
other open content to create something new (e.g., incorporate
the content into a mashup)
• Redistribute - the right to share copies of the original content,
your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of
the content to a friend)
http://www.opencontent.org/definition/

31. Open Educational Resources
Shared
Shared freely
and openly to
be…
Used
Improved
Redistribute
d
… used by
anyone to …… adapt / repurpose/
improve under some
type of license in order
to …
… redistribute
and share
again.
Open Content / Open educational resources (OER) / Open
Courseware are educational materials which are discoverable
online and openly licensed that can be:

32. Technology and Platforms

33. 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

34. 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

35. Qingdao Declaration 2015

36. OER and Open Solutions …

37. OER World Map

38. OER World Map - India

39. Recommendations on Open
Educational Resources

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

41. National Repository of OER

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Alternative copyright Licensing

43. Strategies…

44. 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

45. 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/

46. What further we can do?

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

48. Collaborate for content creation…

49. Thank you!