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in this blog, I will be tell you about Open Educational Resources (OER); which are made freely available to everyone on Internet. They are published under open licenses. let's start with me.
Technology in Education: Overview
Technology has become important part of today’s class room. The use of technology supports both teaching as well as learning. Technology opens up new ways of teaching-leaning. Technologies incorporate class rooms with digital content and digital devices like computers, projectors and other hand held devices. Technology allows teaching and learning for 24×7 independent from location of teachers and learners. Technology increases engagement of students in learning. Online teaching-learning can increase productivity by increasing rate of leaning, reduces the delivery time of learning material. Massive educational material such as books, audio, images, videos are available at one’s fingertips over Internet. Students can share their work and collaborate on group project using digital learning tool like Google docs, Google class room, spreadsheet etc.
Open Educational Resources (OER)
Open Educational Resources (OER) are license
free resources useful for teaching-learning and research purpose; which are made
freely available to everyone on Internet. They are published under open
licenses. The content can be used, reused, adapted, shared and modified
according to specific needs. Open sources play crucial role in digital
teaching-learning. OER includes lecture notes, textbooks, images, audios,
videos etc. The development and promotion of OER are motivated to enhance
digital teaching –learning.
UNESCO
Open Educational Resources Congress
(www.oercongress.org)
First World Open Educational Resources (OER)
congress was held in Paris in June 2012. World OER Congress is organized by
UNESCO. It promotes openly license publicly funded educational materials and
gives recommendations to government and institutions across the world.
1.
National
Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER)
(www.nroer.gov.in)
The National Repository of Open
Educational Resources (NROER) is developed by Central Institute of Education
Technology (CIET), NCERT. NROER provides large number of educational resources
in different Indian languages for Primary, Secondary and Senior Secondary
classes. Education Resources are available in different formats like videos,
images, documents. Apart from this, all NCERT books are also available.
2.
National
Programme on Technology Enhance Learning (NPTEL)
(www.nptel.ac.in)
National Programme on Technology Enhance Learning
(NPTEL) is started by IIT Madras in 1999 to improve the quality higher
education in India. All the IITs, along with the IISc Bangalore would come up
with a series of video lecture-based courses across all the streams of
engineering.
3.
Khan
Academy
(www.khanacademy.org)
Khan Academy is a non-profit
educational organization created in 2005. Khan Academy is started with the goal
to create online tools that help students in leaning. The organization provides
short lessons in the form of videos on YouTube.
4. National Council of Educational Research and
Training (NCERT)
(www.ncert.nic.in/ncerts/textbook/textbook.htm)
The National Council of Educational
Research and Training is a kind of online service that
offers access to the NCERT textbooks of all subjects published by NCERT for
classes I to XII in Hindi, English and Urdu.
5.
eBasta
(www.ebasta.in)
eBasta is an Digital India initiative of Indian
government. The project has been created to make school’s books available in
digital form to be read on mobile, tablets and laptops. App eBasta can also be downloaded from the portal, runs on android mobile or
tablet.
6.
TESS-India
(www.tess-india.edu.in)
Tess-India (Teacher Education
through School-based Support in India) supports India’s national education
policy through the use of freely available and adaptable OER.
7.
Coursera
(www.coursera.org)
Coursera is an
American massive open online course provider founded in 2012 by Stanford
University's. It offers Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)
specializations, degrees, professional and master track courses. Coursera works
with universities and other organizations to offer online courses,
certifications, and degrees in a variety of subjects.
8.
MIT OpenCourseWare
(www.ocw.mit.edu)
MIT
OpenCourseWare is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to
publish all of the educational materials from its undergraduate- and
graduate-level courses online, freely and openly available to anyone, anywhere.
9.
Open Course Library
(www. opencourselibrary.org)
Open Course
Library (OCL) is an initiative by the State of
Washington to make availability of free textbooks, instructional materials
and videos to community and technical college instructors and students.
10. CK-12 Foundation
(www.ck12.org)
The CK-12 Foundation is to reduce
the cost of and increase access to school education worldwide. CK-12 provides
free and open educational resources.
11. Gooru
(www.gooru.org)
Gooru provides free
online multimedia resources and quiz questions on web. Gooru is a free
personalized learning solution that helps teachers to find and share
collections of web educational resources.
12. ISKME - Institute for the Study of Knowledge
Management in Education
(www.iskme.org)
ISKME is an independent and nonprofit
educational platform established in 2002.ISKME supports innovative teaching and
learning practices throughout the globe and is well known for its pioneering
open education initiatives.
13. EdX
EdX is an American massive open
online course provider created by Harvard University and Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT). Edx provides free online courses from various
leading institutions worldwide.
14. Curriki
Curriki is a
free community which provides open education resources for K-12. Resources are
provided by curriki community including educators, parents and other members
across the world.
15. Connexions – Openstax CNX
It is a global
library of educational resources for learners. It includes content for K-12 as
well as higher education in almost every discipline. Connexion is a big
repository consisting more than 17,000 learning object and over 1000
collections of textbooks, journals and articles.
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