Quality in Open Educational Resources in the Indian Context

Quality in Open Educational

Resources in the Indian Context

Uma KanjilalIndira Gandhi National Open University

Journey to OER 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 1000 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)

Other Initiatives in the Country

National Mission on Education through ICT- NPTEL, e-Pathsala , CEC, IGNOU (all commissioned projects), virtual labs, OSCAR, Talk to a Teacher

Content developed based on four quadrant approach

Quality assurance through peer reviewing by PRSG

50 DTH channels for Education – massive content requirement to feed these channels.

Issues on development, use and re-use of OERs

Quantity Vs. Quality

Relevance or fitness for use

Cost factors

QUALITY PARAMETERS FOR OER

Usability (Technical/Legal): Can the resource be used? Is it dependent on particular platforms/networks/tools or can it be used by anyone?

Authenticity: Is the information accurate, uptodate?

Pedagogic value: Is it appropriate for self directed learning? Can it be incorporated into learning activities? Does it meet a teaching need.

OER Development Life Cycle – from Faculty/ Developer Perspective

Find

Remix,

Adapt, Localis

e

Create

License

Share

Find – discoverability, metadata standards(LRMI), federating.

Remix, Adapt, Localise-contextualisation, cost factor.

Create - usability, sustainability, accessibility and effectiveness.

License – appropriate licensing.

Share – re-use (is there any value addition?), evidence of use and re-use

Concluding Remarks

Urgent need for guidelines and indicators for quality assurance

user-friendly tools to locate and retrieve OER- standard metadata requirement

Formats and Interoperability

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

QA based toolkit integrated in the OER platform

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