Educational technology @ distance & open education, OER - Open Educational Resources, MOOC, Digital Libraries, Virtual Labs, Virtual Museums, virtual tours

1. Educational Technology @
Distance & Open Education
Dr.C.Karthik Deepa
Assistant Professor
Department of Education
Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science And Higher
Education for Women
Coimbatore
cherrydeepa@gmail.com
9976131831

2. Distance Education

3. Distance education
• Distance education or distance learning is
the education of students who are not
physically present at a school. Courses that are
conducted partly through distance
education and partly on-site are referred to as
hybrid or blended education.

4. Features of Distance Education
• E-Resources
• Online Exams
• Online Practical
• Virtual Classes
• Webminars
• E-Libraries
• Any time any where

5. • Open education encompasses
▫ resources
▫ tools and
▫ practices
▫ that employ a framework of
open sharing
▫ to improve educational access
and
▫ effectiveness worldwide.

6. Open Education

7. OER
 Used by UNESCO in 2002
 Openness in Higher Education – free to use & reuse
 Includes - Open Source Software (OSS)
- Open Access (OA)
 Free availability over Internet
 No Technical barriers , No Price barriers,
 A few Legal permission barriers

8. OER - Includes
• Full Course
• Courseware
• Content Modules
• Learning objects
• Journals
Learning
Content
• Software
• Searching &
organization of
content
• On – line learning
Tools
• Intellectual
property licenses
• Design principles
• Localization of
content
Implementatio
n Resources

9. Open Education combines
• traditions of knowledge
sharing and creation with
21st century technology
▫ to create a vast pool of openly
shared educational resources
• collaborative spirit to
develop educational
approaches that are more
responsive to learner’s needs.

11. Massive Open Online Course (MOOC )
• an online course
• unlimited participation and open access via the web
• traditional course materials such as filmed lectures,
readings, and problem sets +
• interactive user forums to support community
interactions between students, professors,
and teaching assistants (TAs).
• recent and widely researched development
in distance education
• first introduced in 2008 and emerged as a popular
mode of learning in 2012

13. Digital library
• Collection of digital objects
-text, visual material, audio
material, video material,
stored as electronic media
formats (as opposed to print,
microform, or other media),
along with means for
organizing, storing, and
retrieving the files and media
contained in the library
collection.