1. Karnataka Open Educational Resources KOER - A New Model of Teacher Education STF/HTF 2013-14

2. Current educational context NCF and RTE have proposed a new framework of education inclusive, contextual and meaningful education learners to bring in their knowledge and experience build skills and capabilities for 21st centuryWhat is needed for this new framework? Contextual meaningful curricular resourcesQuality of teacher professional development Integrate ICTs into Teacher Education ICT enabled community of learning to share and collaborate 3. Current resources context Textbook is the most important resourceOther (departmental) resources Only one source; supply driven /top down Limited; made once for the year Largely textualExternal resources Mostly non-digitalExpensiveCannot adapt 4. Beginnings of Open Educational Resources (OER) Global Phenomena Massachussetts Institute of Technology course materials for free called Open Courseware (2001); www.edx.orgLaunch of wikipedia (2001)Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa; http://www.tessafrica.net/Initiatives in India National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL); http://nptel.iitk.ac.in/IGNOU Open coursesMove from textual content to include different kinds of digital content image, audio, video 5. What are the principles of OERs 4Rs (called Four Freedoms) Resources can be revised/ adapted to make it relevantCombine different kinds of OERs to make a new resource Resources can be accessed for free and usedRedistribute - Share the revised/ remixed resourceCopy Left Allows these four freedomsCreative Commons License 6. Characteristics of OERs Types of OERs Sharing already created academic content for free www.khanacademy.org; www.tessafrica.netStructuring free course materials and courses www.edx.org; www.coursera.org;www.nptel.iitk.ac.inCreating a collaborative community www.wikipedia.orgDynamic; continuously updatedMultiple perspectives Collaborative, involve manyReference: IGNOU_OER_Presentation 7. OERs a national educational priority Karnataka Open Educational Resources Kannada KOER ; English KOER Built on a wiki platformCreated by practising teachers, collaborativelyLocally relevant, meaningful, dynamicTeacher plays a key role Same principles as OERsOf the teacher, by the teacher and for the teacherNational Repository of Open Educational Resources Facilitated by the NCERTSimilar principles as KOER 8. KOER - New Model in Teacher Education Community of teachers (STF and HTF members) create, share and review resources Peer learning Peer reviewHow does this happen? Email forums for sharing experiences and ideasWiki for resource sharing and accessCommunity collaboratively, continuosly learning, creating, sharing and evaluating resources 9. KOER - New Model in Teacher Education Resource creation has thus become a method of teacher education When a teacher creates a resource, she learns Teacher feels empowered with respect to teaching learning processes Move beyond text book cultureA teacher education programme has become a source for resource creation Continuous resource creationMultiple perspectives, ideas, different kinds of resourcesInteractive classrooms 10. KOER Status Class IX new text books, subject portals Maths Science Social ScienceThematic portals ELM AssessmentWiki login id to create, edit for more than 100 teachers More than 2000 resource pages and 1000 resource files uploaded Nearly 200,000 views of KOER 11. KOER Status Cascade STF PagesSTF informationNews articlesTeachers contributions Direct upload /edit Contribute button Comment and provide feedback on resources 12. KOER (Kannada) Maths Subject Portalhttp://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/index.php/: 13. KOER (English) STF Cascade pagehttp://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/STF_Cascade_District_Workshops_2013-14