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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
THANK YOU