This ppt is made for M.Ed.,(M.A. Education) and Ph.D. level student's OER related knowledge and course content. The ET & ICT in Teacher Education is highly concerned with lesson plan and content requirement and creation in daily teaching. So, this PPT on OER will help them to know the enormous platforms of OER available to use, reuse, remix for any level of education in general and in higher education particularly. Student will be not only be aware of it but also explore and use for a sustainable future of education system. This PPT will also be helpful for the Teachers and Teachers Educators for becoming the OER literate and frequent users.

1. Transforming Education for a Sustainable Future
Dr. Sarita Anand
Assistant Professor
Department of Education
Vinaya Bhavana
Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan
sarita.anand@visva-bharati.ac.in
The OERs

2. Creating, Using, Mixing
and
Sharing OERs
CC: Creative commons
Giving Knowledge for Free
“Sharing is Caring”
https://howardcc.libguides.com/oerbasics-oer

3. THE EMERGENCE OF OERs
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• MIT Open Course Ware Project 2001
• Creative Commons open licenses in 2002
• first adopted at UNESCO's 2002
See https://oercommons.org/
• 2005: The National Knowledge
Commission (NKC) acknowledges the
potential of OERs
Mid-2000s: India launched influential OER initiatives like:
NPTEL (2003): National Programme on Technology
Enhanced Learning: A consortium offering video and web
courses from IITs, IISc (https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/).
INFLIBNET: The Information and Library Network started
providing access to scholarly electronic resources, including
e-journals and e-theses, promoting open access to research
materials (https://www.inflibnet.ac.in/).

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OER refers to accumulated digital assets that can be adjusted and
which provide benefits without restricting the possibilities for others
to use them.
Concepts
OER
Creative Commons (CC) license:
• enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted "work".
• used when an author wants to give other people the right to
share, use, and build upon a work that the author has created.

5. Concept
“Digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators,
students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching,
learning and research”.
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• learning content
• Courses
• Audio/Video
• Software
• Pictures/Photos
• Content modules
• PPTs
• E-books
• Open Journals
• Periodicals
• Encyclopedias and many more
OER includes:

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• Beg or Borrow (not Steal) Learning Resources. Don’t Reinvent The Wheel.
• Take What Exists And Build The Course Around It.
• Assemble: Don’t Create. Mix And Match.
• Move From “Not Invented Here” To “Proudly Borrowed From There.”
• Curriculum Specialists, Instructional Designers.
• Build Flexibly For Reuse And Repurposing.
• Generalizability Reduces Costs.
• Design For Use On Mobile Devices.
• Build to Standards (Quality content).
As per Common Wealth of Learning:

7. WHY OER?
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OER are supported by educators who believe that
sharing is important for learning. They want to:
 use affordable (free) learning resources
 have the legal rights to use these (free) learning
resources
 have updated content
 translate resources into other languages
Note: OER are available in repositories on the Internet.

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• Democratizing Access and Lowering Costs
• Flexibility and Customization
• Enhancing Learning and Collaboration
• Engaging and interactive
• Addressing Environmental and
sustainability Concerns
OERs are the resources available in public domain
with an open license.
OERs fulfills the true aim of education, by
democratizing learning and reaching out to those who
cannot afford or access them.
ENCOURAGING
FEATURES OF OERs

9. OERs Initiatives from Abroad
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• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
• The Journal Storage (JSTOR)
• Open Access Thesis & Dissertations
• Open Knowledge Repository -World Bank
• PubMed Central (PMC)
• Project Gutenberg
• High Wire
• Southern Connecticut State University
• Science Direct Open Access Content
• Oxford Open
• Springer Open Journals
• Taylor & Francis Open Access
• edX
Source: https://vjim.edu.in/lrc/oer.html

10. OERs in India
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• SWAYAM
• NPTEL
• NDL
• NROER
• e-PG Pathshala
• Swayam Prabha
• CEC (Under graduate)
• Shodhganga
• The Spoken Tutorial
• Virtual Labs
• Free and Open Source Software
in Education (FOSSEE)
Source: https://vjim.edu.in/lrc/oer.html
• E-Yantra
• E-Acharya
• Talk to Teacher
• Vidya-Mitra (Integrated E-learning
Portal-INFLIBNET)
• Quantum & Nano Computing
• ERP Mission
• ISLERS
• Oscar++
• E-Kalpa
• Pedagogy Project
• Open Government Data (OG) Platform

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Source: https://vjim.edu.in/lrc/oer.html
• Pixabay: https://pixabay.com/
• Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/
• Openlearn: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/
• Saylor.org
• CK-12.org
• Curriki
• Wiki Veristy
• Wikimedia Commons
• Wiki Educator
• KhanAcademy
• MIT OpenCourseware
Other Frequently used Resources

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Source: https://vjim.edu.in/lrc/oer.html
About Frequently used OER Resources
• Pixabay: is for free stock photography and royalty-free stock media, used for sharing photos, illustrations,
vector graphics, film footage, music and sound effects.
• Flicr: is an image & video hosting free service, online community, founded in Canada at US.
• Openlearn: is an educational website. It is the UK's Open University's contribution to the open educational
resources project and the home of free, open learning from The Open University.
• Saylor.org: Free Online Courses -Study over 80 courses for free. No application needed, just sign up and
start learning.
• Curriki: Curriki is an online, free, open education service. Curriki is structured as a nonprofit organization
to provide open educational resources primarily in support of K-12 education

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• Wikiveristy: is a Wikimedia Foundation project that supports learning communities, their learning
materials, and resulting activities, offers tutorials and other materials for the fostering of
learning, rather than an encyclopedia.
• Wikibooks: is a wiki-based Wikimedia project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation for the creation of
free content digital textbooks and annotated texts that anyone can edit.
• Wikisource: is an online digital library of free-content textual sources on a wiki, operated by the
Wikimedia Foundation.
• Wiki Educator: is an international online community project for the collaborative development of
learning materials, which educators are free to reuse, adapt and share without restriction.
• Wikimedia Commons: is a wiki-based media repository of free-to-use images, sounds, videos and other
media.
About Frequently used OER Resources

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• Bookboon: is a digital learning service provider for corporate learning & development, providing eBooks,
audio learning, online courses & learning.
• Internet Archive: is an American nonprofit digital library, provides free access to collections of digitized
materials including websites, software applications, music, audiovisual and print materials.
• Khan Academy: Its goal is to create a set of online tools that help educate students. Produces short
video lessons, supplementary practice exercises and materials for educators.
• MIT OpenCourseWare: is a web based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and
available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
About Frequently used OER Resources

15. Some Useful OER Links
http://doer.col.org
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https://oercommons.org/
http://cnx.org/
http://creativecommons.org/education
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/
https://www.curriki.org/
http://www.jorum.ac.uk
https://oerknowledgecloud.org
https://unevoc.unesco.org/bilt/BILT+Library/
https://www.col.org/

16. Example Web Page at a Glance: Go check & explore OER Commons

17. Example Web Page at a Glance: Go check & explore Pixabay

18. Example Web Page at a Glance: Go check & explore Flickr

19. Example Web Page at a Glance: Go check & explore NDL

20. Example Web Page at a Glance: Go check & explore NEAT.AICTE

21. Example Web Page at a Glance: Go check & explore MOOCs @SWAYAM

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sarita.anand@visva-bharati.ac.in