SP5 - COLLABORATIVE CO-CREATION OF OER BY

TEACHER EDUCATORS AND TEACHERS IN INDIA: A

PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH STUDY

Kasinathan, G.;Ranganathan, R.;

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© 2018, KASINATHAN, G.

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IDRC Grant/ Subvention du CRDI: 107311-001-Research into Open Educational Resources for

Development

ROER4D

● SP5 - Collaborative co-creation of OER

by teacher educators and teachers in India:

A participatory action research study

● Gurumurthy Kasinathan, IT for Change

● Banff, Calgary, April 2015

The research aims to study

“whether and how,

a bottom-up approach, where participants collaboratively and actively co-create contextual resources

('embedded' within a 'community of learning'),

can support effective OER models”.

Important URLs for project

STF (LPLC) mailing lists - http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/See_old_STF_mails

KOER English wiki portal - http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php

KOER Kannada wiki portal - http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER

Photos from workshops, schools - https://plus.google.com/photos/112402509869329495346/albums

IT and education

The education system largely teaches as if computers did not existComputer labs provided to all Government High Schools but not used – teachers do not find them relevant

Geography – virtual atlasGeography – virtual atlas

Teachers learn specialised educational software applications (open source)

Science (simulations)Science (simulations)

Concept MappingConcept Mapping

Turtle (Visual Programming)Turtle (Visual Programming)

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Geography with

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Kalzium- Chemistry

Maths with Geogebra

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Teachers network through subject specific google groups

● 15000 Teachers trained to participate in “Subject Teachers Forums” for sharing experiences and seeking ideas and resources

'Subject Teacher Forum', a state-wide teacher education program, consisting of mailing groups in Mathematics, Science, Social Science, Kannada and English and on School Leadership

Teachers share ideas, experiences and resources; mentor and seek help of peers, explore new areas of learning, network with teacher educators and state functionaries on the forums

15,000 teachers from 6,000 schools across the state, part of the groups

● 60,000 + emails shared, 80% are on academic issues

● Globally, the largest community of learners from one school system

● Subject Teacher Forum program (STF)

Yes

Do you have access 1-3 years >3 years No Total

to the internet? Mlmber % Number % Number % Mlmber %

Comparative Group 1 1.12 3 3.37 85 89 100.00%

LPLC Group 9 15.52 45 77.59 4 58 100.[X)%

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Do you use the

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your |eafning 13 years > 3 years No Total

needs? Number % Mlmber % Number % Number %

Comparative Group 0 0 2 3.08 63 65 100.00%

LPLC Group 12 24.49 30 61.22 7 49 100.00%

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Do you use computers to 1'3 V935 > 3 V935 N9 T9“

fulfill your learning needs? Mlmber % Number % Number % Number %

Comparative Group 0 0 1 1.59 62 63 100.00%

LPLC GroLp 11 22 34 68 5 50 1[X).00%

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Result

Using resources other than text book 2571 86.57 49.42

Not using any resource other than text book 2 2 50.58

Total Result 105 67 172

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20.00%

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70.00%

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100.00%95.51%

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Access to internet

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20.00%

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24.49%

61.22%

Internet for learning needs

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PLC

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10.00%

20.00%

30.00%

40.00%

50.00%

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Use of computer for learning needs

Comparable

PLC

Kind of email Number Percent

Asking for help/ seek information 61 17.1

Responding to question 47 13. 2

Sharing ideas 17 4.3

Sharing reseurces — Accessed 41 11.5

Sharing reseurces — Created 65 13. 2

Sharing reseurces — Revised 4 1.1

Feedback on reseurces 23 6.4

Sharing resources — departmental 133'6

Mails that deal with materials 271 723

Others 52 27. 7

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Explicit non-OERs

Implicit non-OERs

Implicit OERs

Explicit OERs

Table - Awareness of OERS

Explicit I'iDI'i-OERS 19 7.8%

Implicit croci—0iERs 9 3.7%

Implicit OERs 198 81.8%

Explicit OERs 16 6.6%

Total 242 100%