2. Current educational context
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NCF and RTE have proposed a new framework
of education
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inclusive, contextual and meaningful education
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learners to bring in their knowledge and experience
build skills and capabilities for 21st century
What is needed for this new framework?
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Contextual meaningful curricular resources
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Quality of teacher professional development
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Integrate ICTs into Teacher Education
ICT enabled community of learning to share and
collaborate
3. Current resources context
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Textbook is the most important resource
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Other (departmental) resources
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Only one source; supply driven /top down
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Limited; made once for the year
Largely textual
External resources
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Mostly non-digital
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Expensive
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Cannot adapt
4. Beginnings of Open Educational Resources (OER)
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Global Phenomena
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Massachussetts Institute of Technology course materials
for free called Open Courseware (2001); www.edx.org
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Launch of wikipedia (2001)
Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa;
http://www.tessafrica.net/
Initiatives in India
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National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning
(NPTEL); http://nptel.iitk.ac.in/
IGNOU Open courses
Move from textual content to include different kinds of
digital content – image, audio, video
5. What are the principles of OERs
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4Rs (called “Four Freedoms”)
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Resources can be revised/ adapted to make it
relevant
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Combine different kinds of OERs to make a new
resource
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Resources can be accessed for free and used
Redistribute - Share the revised/ remixed resource
Copy Left
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Allows these four freedoms
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Creative Commons License
6. Characteristics of OERs
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Types of OERs
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Sharing already created academic content for free
www.khanacademy.org; www.tessafrica.net
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Structuring free course materials and courses
www.edx.org; www.coursera.org;www.nptel.iitk.ac.in
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Creating a collaborative community
www.wikipedia.org
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Dynamic; continuously updated
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Multiple perspectives
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Collaborative, involve many
Reference: IGNOU_OER_Presentation
7. OERs a national educational priority
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Karnataka Open Educational Resources
Kannada KOER ; English KOER
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Built on a wiki platform
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Created by practising teachers, collaboratively
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Locally relevant, meaningful, dynamic
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Teacher plays a key role
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Same principles as OERs
Of the teacher, by the teacher and for the teacher
National Repository of Open Educational Resources
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Facilitated by the NCERT
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Similar principles as KOER
8. KOER - New Model in Teacher Education
Community of teachers (STF and HTF members)
create, share and review resources
– Peer learning
– Peer review
How does this happen?
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Email forums for sharing experiences and ideas
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Wiki for resource sharing and access
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Community collaboratively, continuosly learning,
creating, sharing and evaluating resources
9. KOER - New Model in Teacher Education
Resource creation has thus become a method of
teacher education
– When a teacher creates a resource, she learns
– Teacher feels empowered with respect to teaching
learning processes
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Move beyond text book culture
A teacher education programme has become a source
for resource creation
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Continuous resource creation
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Multiple perspectives, ideas, different kinds of
resources
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Interactive classrooms
10. KOER – Status
Class IX new text books, subject portals
– Maths
– Science
– Social Science
Thematic portals
– ELM
– Assessment
Wiki login id to create, edit for more than 100 teachers
More than 2000 resource pages and 1000 resource files
uploaded
Nearly 200,000 views of KOER
11. KOER – Status
Cascade STF Pages
STF information
News articles
Teachers contributions
– Direct upload /edit
– Contribute button
– Comment and provide feedback on resources
