Open Educational Resources & Open Licensing Policies in the Indian Context: IGNOU Perspective

Open Educational Resources & Open Licensing Policies in the Indian Context: IGNOU Perspective

Uma KanjilalIndira Gandhi National Open University

The University has contributed towards nation building in a great way and evolved successful models of democratization of education, training and capacity building.

The Mandate of the University

Access to higher education to all segments of society

Provide high quality, innovative and need-based programmes at different levels, to all those who require them;

Reach out to the disadvantaged at affordable costs; and

promote, coordinate and regulate the standards of education offered through open and distance learning in the country.

IGNOU At A Glance

• Established in 1985; Programmes offered: 1987

• Students : 2.9 million (12% of total higher education; about 50% of total distance education)

• Academic programmes: #445• Courses on offer: #3,000• Regional Centres: 67• Study Centres/ Tele-learning Centres: #3107• Teachers & academics: 447; Admin staff:

1219• Tutors/ Counsellors: # 36,000• Offer outside India: 36 countries / 67 Centres

IGNOU’s Technology Enhanced Learning: Present Status

5 educational channels (Gyan Darshan)- also available on DTH and IP TV

37 FM radio stations (Gyan Vani) with Interactive radio counseling facility

Internet Radio and webcasting

Pan African e-Network Project

eGyanKosh (e=electronic, gyan= knowledge, kosh= repository)

FlexiLearn initiative for open courses27

Online programmes in complete virtual environment

Journey to e-content development started with digitisation and repository building Over 95% of the self-instructional print material of

the University covering more than 2300 courses available

More 2500 video programmes available on YouTube with the metadata link in the repository

More than 1,67, 593 registered users and visits per day around 500 from all over the world

http://www.egyankosh.ac.in

Webcasting of Broadcast channels Gyan Darshan and Gyan Vani

IGNOU is the first Open University in the world to adopt OER Policy CC- BY-NC-SA license with Board of Management Approval

First MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) portal in the country with crowdsourcing philosophy

Open Course Portal for Course wise registration and assessment with modular approach for earning course credits for a certificate, diploma or degree

http://www.ignouflexilearn.ac.in/

• More than 900 courses available with 63699 registered users.

• E-portfolio for a formal record of all formal and informal studies carried out by the registered learner

Virtual Classrooms

Walk in admission

Integrated multimedia courseware (personalized learning space )

Online counseling and mentoring (web conferencing, text based chatting)

Assignment Management System

E-tutor based practical

Group based online seminar

Online Project platform

Online Term End Examination (proctored)

27 online programmes- all processes online right from registration to certification with the following features:

IGNOU Adopts OER Policy

IGNOU envisions to be a leading developer of OERs with the use of its own as well as other OERs fully incorporated into teaching and learning at all levels within the University system

The policy is adopted to guide the promotion, development and usage of OERs and to further ensure that the highest standards of education are achieved thereof.

Purpose of the OER Policy

Make materials available under open license

Support voluntary participation of Faculty and others in developing OER content

Clarify publication rights and licensing issues

Provide guidance in development and review of OER materials prior to sharing them on a worldwide scale

Define collaborations within and without the university with the intent to allow access to the open content.

Licenses for IGNOU OER Repository

In general all IP and the outputs and outcomes arising from that IP will be owned by the creator whereas IGNOU will derive benefits from the outcomes.

All materials released on the IGNOU OER Repository site will be covered under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.5 India (CC BY-NC-SA)

Concluding Remarks

Developing culture of sharing and re-using – awareness building

Contextualizing and mapping to curriculum – implications for teaching/ learning and new methods of assessment and accreditation

user-friendly tools to locate and retrieve OER

Formats and Interoperability

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