A Professional Learning Community Approach for Teacher Development and OER creation - A toolkit/Preface
A tool-kit
The toolkit has been developed by IT for Change, an organization working with teachers and school systems on meaningful ICT integration, to support the aims of education. The development of this course material was carried out with the aid of a grant from the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada, as a part of the Research on OER for Development ROER4D research program
This toolkit is aimed at senior education officials to help them understand the tool-kit components and processes, and plan for a similar program, adapting it to local context, needs and priorities. It is also for Teacher educators and Teachers, to support them to design and implement similar programs and participate in the design and implementation of same. Curriculum experts can use the toolkit for exploring new participatory approaches to curriculum design and material development, integrating ICT. Researchers can study the implementation of the tool-kit and provide evidenced-based inputs for improvement.
The toolkit is available in an on-line edition in the form of a “Wiki book”. The Wiki book edition can also be shared off-line on a DVD, which can enable user to read the digital version without internet connectivity. Along with the tool-kit, a custom software distribution which contains the FOSS desktop tools covered is shared on-line, which can be installed on your computer and enable learning the applications that are a part of the tool-kit.
The toolkit is released under the CC-BY license, and the custom software distribution is released under the General Public License (GPL). The CC BY license enables you to make copies of the tool-kit with or without modifications and distribute it for profit or without profit. The GPL license enables you to make copies of the software applications with or without modifications. Modifications if any, to the software, can be re-distributed only as FOSS.
Copyright
©2017 IT for Change. Except where otherwise noted, 'A Professional Learning Community Approach for Teacher Development and OER creation - A toolkit' is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License.
Images and videos : All images and videos used in this toolkit, unless otherwise specified have been created by the author. Some of these are screen shots of the FOSS applications discussed in the toolkit, others are from workshops conducted by IT for Change with teachers from government schools in Karnataka and Telangana.
Author
IT for Change, Bengaluru
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Acknowledgements
The toolkit was written by a team of researchers, editors, subject experts and technology experts from IT for Change.
Authors – Gurumurthy Kasinathan, Director and Sriranjani Ranganathan, Deputy Director
Technical support - Rakesh B., Technology Associate and Yogesh K.S., Technology Associate
Editing support and Graphics - Yatti Soni, Communications Associate
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'A Professional Learning Community Approach for Teacher Development and OER creation - A toolkit' is licensed under CC BY 4.0 license