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Open Curriculum and Textbook Development: some initial ideas

Open Curriculum and Textbook Development: some initial ideas. V Balaji ICRISAT. Open Educational Resources-UNESCO 2002.

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Open Curriculum and Textbook Development: some initial ideas

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  1. Open Curriculum and Textbook Development: some initial ideas V Balaji ICRISAT

  2. Open Educational Resources-UNESCO 2002 • Operating Definition: “the open provision of educational resources, enabled by ICTs, for consultataion, use and adaptation by a community of users for non-commercial purposes” • Wikipedia-linked Wikiversity is just emerging • Two examples: • The OCW Consortium • The OpenLearn-UK

  3. Wider Use of ICT Inspired Open Course Sharing • MIT’s OCW in 2002 • Only syllabus and lecture notes • MIT’s OCW now • An international consortium- includes over 75 universities in 21 countries • MIT Courses can be “modified” by a consortium member • Delivery/credits entirely administered by the member

  4. OpenLearn Initiative of the UKOU • Launched in 2005 • Currently has 5000 hours of study material; equal size in “LabSpace” • Creative Commons licensing • Key Learning: • Allow “re-mixing” for more effective use globally • This needs to be offered ab initio, upfront, not later

  5. A few more ongoing efforts.. • Rice University Connexions • The Sakai Project • The BCcampus • The Freecourseware Project, South Africa • The NPTEL Project in Engineering Education, India

  6. What is in it for Agriculture? • The Positives First: • Sharing of courses is highly feasible, despite persistence of IP issues • “re-mixes”, “playlists” of content are emerging into educational practice • Quality control of re-purposing can be a community-facilitated process

  7. The Limitations • Internet Access from a PC Essential for Learning • Tight Binding to a Learning Management System, however Open or Proprietary • Suits formal education requirements but not the Open Learning Requirements always

  8. Towards a Rural Agriculture-influenced Perspective • Separate Content Creation and Validation Processes from Access, Delivery and Exchange Processes • Facilitate content generation in a “granular” form; compatible with Learning Objects practice • Former can be in mostly digital realm; use Web 2.0 tools with Semantic Web techniques

  9. Perspective Ideas Continued • Access need not be limited to PC-based Internet • Accept mobile telephones and similar devices as key access methods by learners • Enable re-purposing for highly contextualised use: community radio, local cable TV scripting, short pieces in print or video

  10. VASAT content generation model (IIT-Kanpur) Outputs can be in Different Formats! Whether employing physical or electronic devices for output, the process of LO creation does NOT change! • Posters, Brochures, flyers • Conventional print products • Mobile • Web • Radio • Television • Performances

  11. Semantic VASAT Wiki Ingredients + = + Semantic VASAT Wiki MediaWiki S/w Semantic Tool FAO’s AGROVOC FAO’s AGROVOC provides the Ontology to link information objects in the Wiki facilitated by OntoWorld’s Semantic Tool http://vasatwiki.icrisat.org

  12. External Website 2 1 Wiki Article Content Aggregation from different sources using eXe Aggregate Content Export Content 4 3

  13. NGOs VIC’s DoA SAUs Q&A; activities log Content Organization Ontology, Wiki-like interface NARS K-Base Intl. agencies Pvt NARS agencies Commodity Markets Dynamic Data Weather / Meteorology Imagery/ Maps

  14. Multi-modal Delivery Services T.V / Radio OA Repository Print VKCs Interfaces Knowledge Organization Smart interfaces Call centers LMS e-Learning Fixed / mobile Phones Stakeholders Users Collaboration and Capacity Building processes act as the glue to various components here

  15. The Opportunities Are Many… • Communities of content producers will play a critical role: that is where Web 2.0 and Social Networking need to be brought in • Wiki-like content creation, validation, maintenance essential • New semantic tools should be considered for ease of search, navigation and aggregation • Quite some engineering work pending but let’s not wait…..

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