Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia

Understanding Open Educational Resources

Sanjaya MishraEducation Specialist, eLearning, COLPrincipal Investigator, ROER4D

A Childhood riddle…

What is it that does not get reduced after sharing with someone else?

KNOWLEDGE

Role of Teachers

What teachers do?– Explain– Interpret– Guide– Share– Write– Counselling– Assessing– Facilitate– Any other?

What you do?

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

Knowledge Resources Formats

Books Periodicals A/V Media Online Web

Resources– Text– Audio– Video– Graphics– Animation

Learning Objects

Open… Learning Education Access Science Data Content Source Government Educational Resources

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

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.

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

5R

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/

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

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

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

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

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