Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia

ICT integration in Teacher EducationUsing Open Educational Resources

Sanjaya MishraDirector, Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia

12 February 2013

Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia

Established by the Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, Canada in 1994; Agreement with Govt of India in 1998; Status of a Diplomatic mission in 2000

To assist governments and institutions to expand the scale, efficiency and quality of learning by using multiple media in open, distance and technology-enhanced learning

What are the big challenges?

Number of untrained teachers, including vocational education teachers

Concern for quality of teacher training Access to technology Faith on technology to assist improving

access and quality of education Quality of student learning (joyful, as

well as learning for living)

COL and Teacher Education

Quality assurance of teacher education Green Teacher programme OER for English language teaching TESSA Partnership (for teacher

education materials) Child Friendly Schools

CEMCA: Teacher Education Focus

Teacher education institutions adopt blended approach to ICT integration in continuing professional development– Developing a Community of Practice for

Teacher Educators– Imparting ICT skills to Teacher Educators

Underlying belief: increased use of ICT by teacher educators will play a cascading effect on appropriate use of ICT by teachers in the classroom

Teacher Education: Holistic view

Student

Technology

Pedagogy

Content

Teacher

Technology Innovation: COL Tablet server

A tablet used as a server can host an LMS or CMS such as

Moodle or Wordpress pre-

loaded with learning

materials.

A portable wireless router can broadcast a network that students can connect to

An external battery can power the wireless router off-grid for up to 12 hours.

http://techpaper.colfinder.org/

OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

OER: What and Why• Emergence of the term OER, 2002• National Knowledge Commission, India

(2007 Recommendation on OER)• OER Paris Declaration, 2012• Sharing of educational materials as national

resources• Providing opportunity for lifelong learning,

and continuous professional development• Strengthening ODL approaches through

quality learning materials

Open Licensing

To share educational material– Reuse– Revise– Remix– Redistribute

No permission required as long as the open license is respected

What needs to be done for TE?

Understanding open license Developing OER in teaching subjects OER Policy development

Emerging OER initiatives

NPTEL is an example TESS-India (in early stage) TESSA

OER as panacea for all problems?

Capacity building of teachers and teacher educators on ICT use and integration of OER in teaching and learning

Creating a culture of sharing and contribution to OER

Being prepared to handle ICT empowered learners

Collaboration through Community of Practice

Thank YOU