Institutional Repository at IGNOU: egyankosh , flexilearn and OER Repository

1. Uma Kanjilal Indira Gandhi National Open University Institutional Repository at IGNOU: egyankosh, flexilearn and OER Repository

2. ICT Initiatives at eGyanKosh, IGNOU eGyanKosh: A National Digital Repository FlexiLearn Webcasting facility for GyanDarshan I & II and GyanVani – Education Broadcast E-Learning Platform -Virtual Class Sakshat: A One Stop Education Portal of Ministry of Human Resource Development Uma Kanjilal, IGNOU

3. Digital Learning Facilities www.ignouonline.ac.in Uma Kanjilal, IGNOU

4. eGyanKoshhttp://www.egyankosh.ac.in • initiated in October, 2005 with a mandate to store, index, preserve, distribute and share the digital learning resources • public launch in June 9, 2008 (initiating open access) • emerged as one of the world’s largest educational resource repositories • over 95% of the self-instructional print material of the University have already been digitised and uploaded • 1600 video programmes available on YouTube with the metadata link in the repository • Webcasting of Broadcast channels • Wiki for collaborative content generation Uma Kanjilal, IGNOU

5. eGyanKosh (e=electronic, gyan= knowledge, kosh= repository)Main Page • Collection of more than 40,000 SIMs and 2000 videos • More than 2100 courses • Visits per day day around 400 • More than 1.5 lakh registered users http://www.egyankosh.ac.in Uma Kanjilal, IGNOU

6. YouTube Video Streaming Uma Kanjilal, IGNOU

7. Education Broadcast Uma Kanjilal, IGNOU

8. Live Broadcast’s Archive Management Uma Kanjilal, IGNOU

9. IGNOU-YouTube Collaboration Uma Kanjilal, IGNOU

10. IGNOU-YouTube Collaboration Uma Kanjilal, IGNOU

11. Student Interaction Forum for Broadcast Uma Kanjilal, IGNOU

12. IJOL Online Uma Kanjilal, IGNOU

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14. A Move Towards Flexible Learning Environment • Course wise registration and assessment • Modular approach to earn course credits for obtaining a diploma or degree • Academic Advisors for each course • E-portfolio for a formal record of all formal and informal studies carried out by the registered learner • On demand assessment Uma Kanjilal, IGNOU

15. FlexiLearn Main Page http://www.ignouflexilearn.ac.in Uma Kanjilal, IGNOU

16. Virtual Class Rooms Uma Kanjilal, IGNOU

17. Features of Online Programmes • Walk in admission (Cohort based) • Integrated multimedia courseware (personalized learning space ) • Online counseling and mentoring (web conferencing, text based chatting) • 24×7 learner support • Assignment Management System • E-tutor based practical • Group based online seminar • Online Project platform • Online Term End Examination (proctored) Uma Kanjilal, IGNOU

18. Learning Resources Uma Kanjilal, IGNOU

19. Virtual Class in Progress Uma Kanjilal, IGNOU

20. Student Seminar Uma Kanjilal, IGNOU

21. Question Bank Development Tool Uma Kanjilal, IGNOU

22. Content Uploading Tool Uma Kanjilal, IGNOU

23. IGNOU Adopts OER Policy Uma Kanjilal, IGNOU

24. Open Educational Resources (OER) • Online instructional materials that are provided under "open" licenses which give students, faculty, and all members of the public permission to copy, reuse, revise, adapt, and redistribute the materials, providing users meet specific conditions. Uma Kanjilal, IGNOU

25. OER MOVEMENT • Term first coined at UNESCO's 2002 ‘Forum on the Impact of Open Courseware for Higher Education in Developing Countries’. •  1994 - Wayne Hodgins’ concept of ‘reusable learning objects’ • 1998 - David concept of ‘open content’ based on the underlying principles of the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement on open license policy • 2001 The founding of Creative Commons and the announcement of MIT’s Open Courseware (OCW) initiative in gave further impetus to the OER movement. Uma Kanjilal, IGNOU

26. Creative Commons License Uma Kanjilal, IGNOU

27. Open Educational Resources • MIT’s OpenCourseWare project • and the OpenCourseWare Consortium • Open University’s Open Courses OpenLearn • OER initiatives • Hewlett, COL, UNESCO, OLI • Creative Commons and CC materials • in Flickr, Google, Wikipedia, Wikiversity, etc.

28. Open Collections and Repositories • Wikipedia http://www.wikipedia.org/ • Wikiversity http://wikiversity.org/ • Connexions (Rice University) http://cnx.org/ • MERLOT http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm • Knowledge Hub http://khub.itesm.mx/ • Flicker CC http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ • UNESCO http://portal.unesco.org/ • Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/index.php • I Tunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ • You Tube http://www.youtube.com/

29. Major University based OER Collections • MIT http://ocw.mit.edu/ • Open University http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ • Open Learning Initiative (OLI)- CMU http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/ • Rice University Connexions (http://cnx.org/) • eGyanKosh- IGNOU http://www.egyankosh.ac.in

30. Barriers to OER Movement • intellectual property rights and digital rights management- Creative Commons license • Discoverability- OERCommons, Creative Commons search, and OCWC Course Finder Uma Kanjilal, IGNOU

31. Major Issues of Concern • OER vs. IPR • Formats of learning resources • Data compression vs. quality output • Metadata Standards and interoperability • Data security

32. ukanjilal@ignou.ac.in Thank You