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Open up to

Open content

By: Akhlesh Agarwal

NIIT University

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Closed vs Open content Availability of open contentBenefits of open content How to use open content

ClosedV/s

OpenEducation/Content

What is “Closed” Education?

As per Indian epic Mahabharata,access to education was limited to

only those from royal family or priests

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chained_library

Even the current education in several expensive institutes is closed education as it is accessible to only the privileged ones.

“The world is changing.”

http:// =

Open access

Late 90’s

“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.”

Jimmy Wales – founder wikipedia

• Anyone Can Access ... • Anything ... • Anytime ... • Anywhere ... • At Unlimited Speed

open content for educationBy Universities

By consortiums, or independent organizations

And many more ………

its an ocean out there

http://ocw.mit.edu

Pioneer of the open courseware movement

Since 2002

http://see.stanford.edu/

http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/

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Started by Salman Khan (a graduate from MIT in Electrical & Comp Sc & MBA from Harvard) Started to give lessons to his cousin using videos As popularity increase he started videos on youtubeLater got funding from Bill gates foundation and Google. 27000 videos in repository

Funded by ISKME

Content for primary, secondary and post secondary

31000 resources

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6 reasons to use Open content

http://www.slideshare.net/mweller/10-reasons-to-use-open-content-in-teaching

1. There is good stuff

2. It will shorten course production

3. Multi-media made simple

4. Students get a range of voices

• Best practices and explanations from reputed institutes / faculty.

• Faculty can also learn new ideas on how to teach a concept

5. It teaches students that sharing is key

6. It helps us become digital scholars

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Using open content

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Excuses teachers give:

• Students would think that there is no value addition from faculty ?

• Faculty would feel more confident if content/PPT created by self.

• Students expect original contribution from faculty.

• Content to be customized/tuned for “My” teaching style, environment, curriculum

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How to use:

• Use small bits / pieces from open content • Use OCW content as Additional Ref. • Give reference to open content as pre-study

material to students before the class lecture. • Share OCW sites to other faculty members.

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4 Rs of open content

• Reuse - the right to reuse the content in its unaltered / verbatim form (e.g., make a backup copy of the content)

• Revise - the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another language)

• Remix - the right to combine the original or revised content with other content to create something new (e.g., incorporate the content into a mashup)

• Redistribute - the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of the content to a friend)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_content

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Knowledge is the only treasure

that increases by sharing

http://www.hindudevotionalblog.com/2011/09/goddess-saraswati-hindu-goddess-of.html

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Thank you

akhlesh.agarwal@

@akhlesha