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OER for Empowering Teachers

By Dr. P. Malliga   |   National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chennai
Learners enrolled: 1790
This course on OER, Open Educational Resource, is meant to create awareness among teachers to the freely available high-quality online instructional resources. OER are openly licensed online educational materials that offer an extraordinary opportunity for teachers everywhere to share, use, and reuse knowledge. It is a must for teachers to utilize these resources to enhance students learning outcomes, greater flexibility for students in the form of diverse pathways, greater flexibility for teachers to customize instructional materials and lower production costs. Thus, this course aims to promote student-centric pedagogy, and lifelong learning. Activities are included to find and publish openly licensed content for teaching and learning purpose.

Total study time anticipated is between 20-30 hours in 4 weeks with equivalence to 2 credits

Summary
Course Status : Completed
Course Type : Elective
Duration : 4 weeks
Category :
  • Teacher Education
Credit Points : 2
Level : Continuing Education
Start Date : 27 Jul 2020
End Date : 30 Sep 2020
Enrollment Ends : 31 Jul 2020
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Course layout

Week 1: OER Basics
Introduction to Open Education and Open Educational Resources. Discuss the need of open education and advantages of using OER in teaching learning process. `

Week 2: Open Licenses and OER Repositories
Define Open license and describe the role Creative Commons licensing plays in developing OER. Explore OER repositories and evaluate the existing OER to identify educational content and course materials to meet their needs.

Week 3: Adopt and Adapt OER
Explore various OER initiatives. Locate and evaluate OER for a specific instructional purpose. Remix or Revise an existing OER.

Week 4: Create OER
Design, develop and publish OER in variety of formats: text, image, video

Books and references

  • Kanwar, A & Stamenka, U-V (Eds), (2011),  A Basic guide to Open Educational Resources (OER).
  • OER, https://en.unesco.org/themes/building-knowledge-societies/oer
  • OER Commons, https: //www.oercommons.org/oer
  • Creative commons, http://www.creativecommons.org
  • What’s OER, http://lumenslearning.com

Instructor bio

Dr. P. Malliga

National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chennai
Dr. P. Malliga is working as Associate Professor and Head in charge of Centre for Educational Media and Technology, National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Taramani, Chennai. She has got 28 years of experience in Teaching, Research and Development. Her areas of interest in training include Databases, ICT enabled learning and Teaching, Instructional Design, E-learning and Open Education. She has published 20 research papers in refereed National / International journals and Conferences in the area of Computer Science and Engineering, ICT based Education and Training, Educational Technology. She has contributed to leading consultancy projects for producing multimedia instructional materials on Computer Networks; producing 10 CBTs on 10 different subjects of Computer Science; producing studio based video lectures on Computer Science subjects for satellite based education through Gyandarshan. She has authored a self Instructional Material (Course Material) on Instructional Design for E-learning for MCA Distance Mode program for Anna University. She has conducted around 350 courses for Polytechnic and Engineering College teachers in the areas of Computer Science and Educational Technology. She has trained around 400 Overseas Teachers in the areas of Information Technology, Educational Video Production and Educational Media Production for E-learning.

Course certificate

Interested Learners can enroll and learn the course for free. 
If You wish to Get certified on this course you must register and write the proctored exam conducted by SWAYAM in person at any of the designated exam centers.
  • The Registration fee for the proctored exam is Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
  • Date and Time of Exams: December 2020 / January 2021 (tentative);
  • Announcements will be made when the exam registration form is open for registrations along with the url
  • The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
  • Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE:
  • Internal assignment score = 30%, The average of best 3 assignments out of the total assignments given in the course.
  • Exam score = 70% of the proctored exam score out of 100
  • Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score
  • You will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score >=10/30 and exam score >= 30/70
  • Certificate will have your name, photograph, roll number and the percentage of score in the final exam. It will have the logos of MHRD (Ministry of Human Resource Development), SWAYAM and NITTTR. 
  • Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.



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