Ashish K Awadhiya

Asst. Director, Training and Development

IUC, IGNOU, India

knowledge should be

open &

shared for networking, community building,

cultural binding, global distribution.

“Digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research”.

OER includes learning content, software tools to develop, use and distribute content, and implementation resources such as open licenses.

Refers to accumulated digital assets that can be adjusted and which provide benefits without restricting the possibilities for others to enjoy them.

http://www.oecd.org/edu/ceri/38654317.pdf

http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/Events/global_oer_logo_manual_en.pdf

http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/Events/global_oer_logo_manual_en.pdf

Open Learning,

Open Access,

Open Scholarship,

Open Badges,

Creative Commons,

MOOCs

reducing or removing the barriers to

education.

Such as (but not limited to) access to

institute, learning-teaching community,

peers, tutor, learning content etc.

providing ceaseless access of

knowledge resources and educational

resources to all class of people

an extended form of Open Access

limitless access of the scholarly

resource/ content to the scholars

who may need it for generating or

disseminating knowledge, or for any

other scholarly purposes

providing due and appropriate

recognition

to any kind of informal learning and

making it recognized by a

competent/approving agency

http://www.openbadges.org/

type of copy right

which provides creator to decide

how his/her content may be used by

others

http://creativecommons.org/

Massive Open Online Course (s)

Online courses

For unlimited participants &

connect the through various forums

OER Learning Objects

OER Digitized Library Collections

OER Encyclopedia

OER Online Archives

Open Textbooks

OER Courseware

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Free_to_Learn_Guide/Different_Types_of_OER_Meet_Different_Needs

http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page WikiEducator is a community project working collaboratively with the Free

Culture Movement towards a free version of the education curriculum by

2015.

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) 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.

http://www.socialresearchmethods.n

et/

This website is for people involved in applied social research and evaluation

http://collegeopentextbooks.org/ A collection of educational non/ for profit organizations to focused on driving

awareness and adoptions of open textbooks

http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/ "Shodhganga" is a National repository of India for electronic theses and

dissertations with full text content based on UGC notification.

Strength Weakness

Reservoir of Indian intellectual output

Online & Open access to Indian theses and dissertations to the academic

community world-wide through centrally-maintained digital repositories

Easy and direct access including archiving of Indian doctoral theses

Address the problem of duplication and poor quality research resulting from

the "poor visibility" and the "unseen" factor in research output

Demonstrate academic achievements of each University

Option for simple search and advance search are available

Development and nurturing of Global research Community with presence

Indian community contributing to the knowledge.

Common template for submitting the research thesis

Unavailability ICT infrastructure, high bandwidth internet and budget at Indian

Universities

Challenge to digitized the old research work and upload on repository

Less collaborations/ coordination/ communication among universities and

between implementing agency.

Lake of political will and common vision in state and central universities

Translation of the research work in various Indian regional languages in one

common language

Lake of one common language

Unavailability of monitoring policies on unauthorized use of the content.

Lake of awareness about open access, OERs and community based

knowledge sharing philosophies.

Opportunities Threats

Facilitation in raising the standard and quality of research.

Opportunity for research scholars to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it

available to the entire scholarly community in open access hence exposure of

Indian researchers to the global research community.

Developing a semantic web-based interface to facilitate subject-based

browsing, navigation, search and retrieval of content available in the

repository.

Ability to capture, index, store, disseminate and preserve ETDs (Electronic

Theses and Dissertations) submitted by the researchers

Realization and implementation of democratization of Indian research

material specially among the unreached and rural scholars of India at very

less cost

Opportunity for scholars and researchers to access wide variety of the

resources for generating and disseminating knowledge

No control on unauthorized use of the content

Issues regarding data safety, data security and backup

Discouragement to the universities uploading their content from the

universities who are not uploading their content.

Confidential data and indigenous innovative research can be misused/ used

for commercial exploitation leading to intellectual/ security/ economic losses

to India

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