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This ppt is made for M.Ed.,(M.A. Education) and Ph.D. level student's OER related knowledge and course content. The ET & ICT in Teacher Education is highly concerned with lesson plan and content requirement and creation in daily teaching. So, this PPT on OER will help them to know the enormous platforms of OER available to use, reuse, remix for any level of education in general and in higher education particularly. Student will be not only be aware of it but also explore and use for a sustainable future of education system. This PPT will also be helpful for the Teachers and Teachers Educators for becoming the OER literate and frequent users.

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Transforming Education for a Sustainable Future Dr. Sarita Anand Assistant Professor Department of Education Vinaya Bhavana Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan sarita.anand@visva-bharati.ac.in The OERs
Creating, Using, Mixing and Sharing OERs CC: Creative commons Giving Knowledge for Free “Sharing is Caring” https://howardcc.libguides.com/oerbasics-oer
THE EMERGENCE OF OERs 3 • MIT Open Course Ware Project 2001 • Creative Commons open licenses in 2002 • first adopted at UNESCO's 2002 See https://oercommons.org/ • 2005: The National Knowledge Commission (NKC) acknowledges the potential of OERs Mid-2000s: India launched influential OER initiatives like: NPTEL (2003): National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning: A consortium offering video and web courses from IITs, IISc (https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/). INFLIBNET: The Information and Library Network started providing access to scholarly electronic resources, including e-journals and e-theses, promoting open access to research materials (https://www.inflibnet.ac.in/).
4 OER refers to accumulated digital assets that can be adjusted and which provide benefits without restricting the possibilities for others to use them. Concepts OER Creative Commons (CC) license: • enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted "work". • used when an author wants to give other people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that the author has created.
Concept “Digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research”. 5 • learning content • Courses • Audio/Video • Software • Pictures/Photos • Content modules • PPTs • E-books • Open Journals • Periodicals • Encyclopedias and many more OER includes:
MM.DD.20XX 6 • Beg or Borrow (not Steal) Learning Resources. Don’t Reinvent The Wheel. • Take What Exists And Build The Course Around It. • Assemble: Don’t Create. Mix And Match. • Move From “Not Invented Here” To “Proudly Borrowed From There.” • Curriculum Specialists, Instructional Designers. • Build Flexibly For Reuse And Repurposing. • Generalizability Reduces Costs. • Design For Use On Mobile Devices. • Build to Standards (Quality content). As per Common Wealth of Learning:
WHY OER? 7 OER are supported by educators who believe that sharing is important for learning. They want to:  use affordable (free) learning resources  have the legal rights to use these (free) learning resources  have updated content  translate resources into other languages Note: OER are available in repositories on the Internet.
8 • Democratizing Access and Lowering Costs • Flexibility and Customization • Enhancing Learning and Collaboration • Engaging and interactive • Addressing Environmental and sustainability Concerns OERs are the resources available in public domain with an open license. OERs fulfills the true aim of education, by democratizing learning and reaching out to those who cannot afford or access them. ENCOURAGING FEATURES OF OERs
OERs Initiatives from Abroad 9 • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) • Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) • The Journal Storage (JSTOR) • Open Access Thesis & Dissertations • Open Knowledge Repository -World Bank • PubMed Central (PMC) • Project Gutenberg • High Wire • Southern Connecticut State University • Science Direct Open Access Content • Oxford Open • Springer Open Journals • Taylor & Francis Open Access • edX Source: https://vjim.edu.in/lrc/oer.html
OERs in India 10 • SWAYAM • NPTEL • NDL • NROER • e-PG Pathshala • Swayam Prabha • CEC (Under graduate) • Shodhganga • The Spoken Tutorial • Virtual Labs • Free and Open Source Software in Education (FOSSEE) Source: https://vjim.edu.in/lrc/oer.html • E-Yantra • E-Acharya • Talk to Teacher • Vidya-Mitra (Integrated E-learning Portal-INFLIBNET) • Quantum & Nano Computing • ERP Mission • ISLERS • Oscar++ • E-Kalpa • Pedagogy Project • Open Government Data (OG) Platform
11 Source: https://vjim.edu.in/lrc/oer.html • Pixabay: https://pixabay.com/ • Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/ • Openlearn: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/ • Saylor.org • CK-12.org • Curriki • Wiki Veristy • Wikimedia Commons • Wiki Educator • KhanAcademy • MIT OpenCourseware Other Frequently used Resources
12 Source: https://vjim.edu.in/lrc/oer.html About Frequently used OER Resources • Pixabay: is for free stock photography and royalty-free stock media, used for sharing photos, illustrations, vector graphics, film footage, music and sound effects. • Flicr: is an image & video hosting free service, online community, founded in Canada at US. • Openlearn: is an educational website. It is the UK's Open University's contribution to the open educational resources project and the home of free, open learning from The Open University. • Saylor.org: Free Online Courses -Study over 80 courses for free. No application needed, just sign up and start learning. • Curriki: Curriki is an online, free, open education service. Curriki is structured as a nonprofit organization to provide open educational resources primarily in support of K-12 education
MM.DD.20XX 13 • Wikiveristy: is a Wikimedia Foundation project that supports learning communities, their learning materials, and resulting activities, offers tutorials and other materials for the fostering of learning, rather than an encyclopedia. • Wikibooks: is a wiki-based Wikimedia project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation for the creation of free content digital textbooks and annotated texts that anyone can edit. • Wikisource: is an online digital library of free-content textual sources on a wiki, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. • Wiki Educator: is an international online community project for the collaborative development of learning materials, which educators are free to reuse, adapt and share without restriction. • Wikimedia Commons: is a wiki-based media repository of free-to-use images, sounds, videos and other media. About Frequently used OER Resources
MM.DD.20XX ADD A FOOTER 14 • Bookboon: is a digital learning service provider for corporate learning & development, providing eBooks, audio learning, online courses & learning. • Internet Archive: is an American nonprofit digital library, provides free access to collections of digitized materials including websites, software applications, music, audiovisual and print materials. • Khan Academy: Its goal is to create a set of online tools that help educate students. Produces short video lessons, supplementary practice exercises and materials for educators. • MIT OpenCourseWare: is a web based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. About Frequently used OER Resources
Some Useful OER Links http://doer.col.org 15 https://oercommons.org/ http://cnx.org/ http://creativecommons.org/education https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ https://www.curriki.org/ http://www.jorum.ac.uk https://oerknowledgecloud.org https://unevoc.unesco.org/bilt/BILT+Library/ https://www.col.org/
Example Web Page at a Glance: Go check & explore OER Commons
Example Web Page at a Glance: Go check & explore Pixabay
Example Web Page at a Glance: Go check & explore Flickr
Example Web Page at a Glance: Go check & explore NDL
Example Web Page at a Glance: Go check & explore NEAT.AICTE
Example Web Page at a Glance: Go check & explore MOOCs @SWAYAM
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The OERs: Transforming Education for Sustainable Future by Dr. Sarita Anand

  • 1. Transforming Education for a Sustainable Future Dr. Sarita Anand Assistant Professor Department of Education Vinaya Bhavana Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan sarita.anand@visva-bharati.ac.in The OERs
  • 2. Creating, Using, Mixing and Sharing OERs CC: Creative commons Giving Knowledge for Free “Sharing is Caring” https://howardcc.libguides.com/oerbasics-oer
  • 3. THE EMERGENCE OF OERs 3 • MIT Open Course Ware Project 2001 • Creative Commons open licenses in 2002 • first adopted at UNESCO's 2002 See https://oercommons.org/ • 2005: The National Knowledge Commission (NKC) acknowledges the potential of OERs Mid-2000s: India launched influential OER initiatives like: NPTEL (2003): National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning: A consortium offering video and web courses from IITs, IISc (https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/). INFLIBNET: The Information and Library Network started providing access to scholarly electronic resources, including e-journals and e-theses, promoting open access to research materials (https://www.inflibnet.ac.in/).
  • 4. 4 OER refers to accumulated digital assets that can be adjusted and which provide benefits without restricting the possibilities for others to use them. Concepts OER Creative Commons (CC) license: • enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted "work". • used when an author wants to give other people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that the author has created.
  • 5. Concept “Digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research”. 5 • learning content • Courses • Audio/Video • Software • Pictures/Photos • Content modules • PPTs • E-books • Open Journals • Periodicals • Encyclopedias and many more OER includes:
  • 6. MM.DD.20XX 6 • Beg or Borrow (not Steal) Learning Resources. Don’t Reinvent The Wheel. • Take What Exists And Build The Course Around It. • Assemble: Don’t Create. Mix And Match. • Move From “Not Invented Here” To “Proudly Borrowed From There.” • Curriculum Specialists, Instructional Designers. • Build Flexibly For Reuse And Repurposing. • Generalizability Reduces Costs. • Design For Use On Mobile Devices. • Build to Standards (Quality content). As per Common Wealth of Learning:
  • 7. WHY OER? 7 OER are supported by educators who believe that sharing is important for learning. They want to:  use affordable (free) learning resources  have the legal rights to use these (free) learning resources  have updated content  translate resources into other languages Note: OER are available in repositories on the Internet.
  • 8. 8 • Democratizing Access and Lowering Costs • Flexibility and Customization • Enhancing Learning and Collaboration • Engaging and interactive • Addressing Environmental and sustainability Concerns OERs are the resources available in public domain with an open license. OERs fulfills the true aim of education, by democratizing learning and reaching out to those who cannot afford or access them. ENCOURAGING FEATURES OF OERs
  • 9. OERs Initiatives from Abroad 9 • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) • Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) • The Journal Storage (JSTOR) • Open Access Thesis & Dissertations • Open Knowledge Repository -World Bank • PubMed Central (PMC) • Project Gutenberg • High Wire • Southern Connecticut State University • Science Direct Open Access Content • Oxford Open • Springer Open Journals • Taylor & Francis Open Access • edX Source: https://vjim.edu.in/lrc/oer.html
  • 10. OERs in India 10 • SWAYAM • NPTEL • NDL • NROER • e-PG Pathshala • Swayam Prabha • CEC (Under graduate) • Shodhganga • The Spoken Tutorial • Virtual Labs • Free and Open Source Software in Education (FOSSEE) Source: https://vjim.edu.in/lrc/oer.html • E-Yantra • E-Acharya • Talk to Teacher • Vidya-Mitra (Integrated E-learning Portal-INFLIBNET) • Quantum & Nano Computing • ERP Mission • ISLERS • Oscar++ • E-Kalpa • Pedagogy Project • Open Government Data (OG) Platform
  • 11. 11 Source: https://vjim.edu.in/lrc/oer.html • Pixabay: https://pixabay.com/ • Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/ • Openlearn: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/ • Saylor.org • CK-12.org • Curriki • Wiki Veristy • Wikimedia Commons • Wiki Educator • KhanAcademy • MIT OpenCourseware Other Frequently used Resources
  • 12. 12 Source: https://vjim.edu.in/lrc/oer.html About Frequently used OER Resources • Pixabay: is for free stock photography and royalty-free stock media, used for sharing photos, illustrations, vector graphics, film footage, music and sound effects. • Flicr: is an image & video hosting free service, online community, founded in Canada at US. • Openlearn: is an educational website. It is the UK's Open University's contribution to the open educational resources project and the home of free, open learning from The Open University. • Saylor.org: Free Online Courses -Study over 80 courses for free. No application needed, just sign up and start learning. • Curriki: Curriki is an online, free, open education service. Curriki is structured as a nonprofit organization to provide open educational resources primarily in support of K-12 education
  • 13. MM.DD.20XX 13 • Wikiveristy: is a Wikimedia Foundation project that supports learning communities, their learning materials, and resulting activities, offers tutorials and other materials for the fostering of learning, rather than an encyclopedia. • Wikibooks: is a wiki-based Wikimedia project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation for the creation of free content digital textbooks and annotated texts that anyone can edit. • Wikisource: is an online digital library of free-content textual sources on a wiki, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. • Wiki Educator: is an international online community project for the collaborative development of learning materials, which educators are free to reuse, adapt and share without restriction. • Wikimedia Commons: is a wiki-based media repository of free-to-use images, sounds, videos and other media. About Frequently used OER Resources
  • 14. MM.DD.20XX ADD A FOOTER 14 • Bookboon: is a digital learning service provider for corporate learning & development, providing eBooks, audio learning, online courses & learning. • Internet Archive: is an American nonprofit digital library, provides free access to collections of digitized materials including websites, software applications, music, audiovisual and print materials. • Khan Academy: Its goal is to create a set of online tools that help educate students. Produces short video lessons, supplementary practice exercises and materials for educators. • MIT OpenCourseWare: is a web based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. About Frequently used OER Resources
  • 15. Some Useful OER Links http://doer.col.org 15 https://oercommons.org/ http://cnx.org/ http://creativecommons.org/education https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ https://www.curriki.org/ http://www.jorum.ac.uk https://oerknowledgecloud.org https://unevoc.unesco.org/bilt/BILT+Library/ https://www.col.org/
  • 16. Example Web Page at a Glance: Go check & explore OER Commons
  • 17. Example Web Page at a Glance: Go check & explore Pixabay
  • 18. Example Web Page at a Glance: Go check & explore Flickr
  • 19. Example Web Page at a Glance: Go check & explore NDL
  • 20. Example Web Page at a Glance: Go check & explore NEAT.AICTE
  • 21. Example Web Page at a Glance: Go check & explore MOOCs @SWAYAM