1.Open Educational Resources:Strategies to enhance Networking and Collaborative Opportunities Ramesh SharmaIndira Gandhi National Open University

2. Whatare 3. Open Things Open Access Open Content Open Course ware Open Source Software Open Education / e-Learning Open Educational Resources and many morethings 4. What is anOER? Image source: http://www.bihardays.com/ 5. BeginningThe term was first used at aUNESCO conference in 2002,although OERs were beingproduced and used beforethat time. For instance, theMIT OpenCourseWare project,which began in 2001, was oneof the first major initiatives ofthe OER movement. 6. Open Educational Resources (OER) arematerials offered freely and openly to useand adapt for teaching, learning,development and research.- The Commonwealth of Learning (COL)http://www.col.org/resources/crsMaterials/Pages/OCW-OER.aspx 7. Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching andlearning materials that are freely available onlinefor everyone to use, whether you are an instructor,student or self-learner. Examples of OER include:full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures,homework assignments, quizzes, lab and classroomactivities, pedagogical materials, games,simulations, and many more resources contained indigital media collections from around the world.- OER Commonshttp://www.oercommons.org/ 8. OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in thepublic domain or have been released under an intellectual propertylicense that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Openeducational resources include full courses, course materials, modules,textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools,materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge. - The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation 9. Open Educational Resourcesfree and openly licensed educational materials that can be used for teaching, learning, research, and other purposes. 10. Types of Open Educational Resources Courses Course materials Content modules Learning objects Collections, and Journals 11. open content / open practiceshttp://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/tag/open-content/ 12. Wondering where to find CourseRelated OER Materials? 13. Asian Initiatives 14. OER Based ODL Course Material 15. The OpenCourseWare Consortium, APIKOM, the Ministry of Communication and Informatics of Indonesia 16. OCWC Global Conference 2013 17. Japan Opencourseware Consortium(JOCW) 18. OER in Thailand 19. Thailand Cyber University OpenCourseware 20. OER in Pakistan 21. Sri Lanka 22. OER Repository 23. OER in Thailand 24. Creative Commons Korea 25. KOCW 26. Indian Initiatives 27. National Knowledge Commission Govt. of Indiahttp://knowledgecommission.gov.in/focus/default.asp 28. Indian Institute of TechnologyBombay (IITB) 29. Open Educational Resources for Schools (OER4S)http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/research-development/projects/open-educational-resources-for-schools-oer4s 30. WizIQ: Open Tutorials 31. Open Course materials 32. National Programme on TechnologyEnhanced Learning (NPTEL)http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/index.php 33. The National Institute of Open Schooling http://oer.nios.ac.in/wiki/index.php/Main_Page 34. SAKSHAThttp://www.sakshat.ac.in/ 35. National Council of EducationalResearch and Traininghttp://www.ncert.nic.in/index.htmlOnline textbooks. 36. Vidyanidhi (Meaning Treasure ofKnowledge in Sanskrit) 37. Rai OpenCourseware (Rai Foundation) http://www.rbs.edu.in/chennai/rocw.html 38. Consortium for Educational Communication (University Grants Commission) 39. eGyanKoshhttp://www.egyankosh.ac.in/ 40. FlexiLearnIndira Gandhi National Open University http://www.ignouflexilearn.ac.in/flexilearn/ 41. Networking and Collaboration 42. WizIQ: Virtual Classroom for OnlineEducation 43. Open Course from University ofMumbai 44. WikiEducator pages on courses of IDOL 45. Open Course from Mumbai University The Professor and testimonial 46. Conversations with luminaries from Education arenahttp://go.wiziq.com/2lmd 47. Online Live Conversations:Prof Sugata Mitra with Dr Nellie Deutsch 48. Free Educational Resources:Case Studies, Whitepapers, eBooks, eLearning insights 49. Free Educational Resources:Case Studies, Whitepapers, eBooks, eLearning insights 50. Free Educational Resources:Case Studies, Whitepapers, eBooks, eLearning insights 51. Strategies 52. Open Educational Practice (OEP)A characteristic of OpenEducational Practice,compared withconventional forms ofprofessional practice, isthat it changes thenature of relationships- Allison Littlejohn, Lou McGill, Isobel Falconer, Jay Dempster http://littlebylittlejohn.com/do-oer-funded-initiatives-impact-professional-practice/ 53. What this change is? Between academics and support staff (as people workin multi-disciplinary teams, sharing areas of expertise); Amongst academics (as teaching practice shifts fromindividual practice to cross-institutional and inter-institutional collaboration); Between academics and students (as teachers andlearners (who may not be registered with a university)interact in new ways); Between academics and organisations {including theuniversity where they are employed} (as universityactivities open up). 54. What further we can do? 55. Explore find search Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education http://www.iskme.org 56. Collaborate for content creationInstitute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Educationhttp://www.iskme.org 57. Collaborate for content creation 58. Author:Document, remix, license, and share OER http://wikieducator.org/User:Kalpanagupte/My_Projects 59. CurateCreate a specific collection of OER for easy access and sharinghttp://www.scoop.it/t/open-learning-newshttp://www.scoop.it/t/open-educational-resources-oer 60. Sharehttp://wikieducator.org/User:Rashkath 61. JoinOERFoundation 62. Beome aproud memberofWikiEducator 63. http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page 64. WikiEducator - India http://wikieducator.org/India 65. Free professional developmentopportunity from the OER Foundation 66. Winners from Maharashtra 67. Dr Sujata Dhopte 68. Dr Kalpana Gupte 69. Dr Kalpana Gupte 70. OER Project: Guide for newly enrolled distance learners 71. Thank You !