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'''''The status of the teacher reflects the socio-cultural ethos of a society; it is said that no people can rise above the level of its teachers. The Government and the community should endeavour to create conditions which will help motivate and inspire teachers on constructive and creative lines. Teachers should have the freedom to innovate, to devise appropriate methods of communication and activities relevant to the needs and capabilities of and the concerns of the community. National Policy of Education, 1986.'''''
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Teacher education acknowledged as an important lever for the quality of school education. Improving the quality of teacher education would help in development of more capable and motivated teachers, which would improve the quality of classroom processes and school education.
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=== A tool-kit ===
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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. This toolkit is aimed at senior education officials to help them consider 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 participate in the design and implementation of similar programs. Curriculum experts can use the toolkit for exploring digitally enabled participatory approaches to curriculum design and material development. Researchers can study the implementation of the tool-kit and provide evidenced-based inputs for improvement.
  
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In a society that is termed as the 'digital society', educational processes too can be meaningfully impacted by digital technologies (popularly known as Information and Communication Technologies, or simply ICTs). Perhaps the most important area of integration would be teacher education. A significant focus of ICT in education has been on students learning to use few software applications, without much involvement of the teachers, this has made these programs stand-alone. Integrating ICT into the academic and administrative processes of the school will require investing in integrating it for Teacher Professional Development (TPD). As the NPE 1986 says "
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The toolkit is available in an on-line edition in the form of a “[[A Professional Learning Community Approach for Teacher Development and OER creation - A toolkit|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 discussed in the tool-kit is shared [[A Professional Learning Community Approach for Teacher Development and OER creation - A toolkit/Establishing ICT infrastructure|on-line]].[[File:IT for Change.png|alt=IT for Change|thumb|IT for Change]]
  
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A recent  development in the educational domain has been the rise of Open Educational Resources (OER), with the promise of delivering quality education. An essentially, digital phenomenon, OER seek to leverage the possibilities of digital methods for accessing, creating, modifying and sharing educational content. OER has redefined the copyright regime, stimulating the sharing of content with license to re-use, modify and share or publish.  
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=== Author ===
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Centre for Education and Technology, [http://ITforChange.net IT for Change], Bengaluru, India. Phone – 91-80-26654134, [Mailto:ITfC@ITforChange.net Mail] , [http://ITforChange.net Website]
  
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There is need to promote the creation, revision, publishing and adoption of OER across the world. One way to do this, could be to make available more digital tools for people to use, to create, revise and publish OER. The “Hands-On Toolkit for Teachers to Create, Re-purpose and Publish Open Educational Resources (OER) using Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)”, aims to promote the creation, re-purposing and publishing of OER using FOSS applications.
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The toolkit is written by a [http://itforchange.net/Team team] of researchers, editors, subject and technology experts from [http://ITforChange.net IT for Change], a NGO based in Bengaluru, India.
  
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=== 1 A tool-kit ===
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Authors  – [http://itforchange.net/Guru Gurumurthy Kasinathan], Director and [http://itforchange.net/ITfC-Directors Sriranjani Ranganathan], Deputy Director
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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 [http://roer4d.org Research on OER for Development] ROER4D research program
 
  
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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.
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Technical support - Rakesh B., Technology Associate and Yogesh K.S., Technology Associate
  
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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.
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Editing support and Graphics  - Yatti Soni, Communications Associate
  
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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.
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=== Copyright ===
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©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 [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike 4.0 International] ('''CC BY SA 4.0''') License. The custom software distribution is released under the General Public License (GPL). The CC BY SA 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 tool-kit or the software, can be re-distributed only on the same terms.   
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©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 [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. 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.
 
'''''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.
  
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=== Acknowledgements ===
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[http://ITforChange.net IT for Change], Bengaluru
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The development of this toolkit was carried out with the aid of a grant from the [http://idrc.ca/ International Development Research Centre], Ottawa, Canada, as a part of the [http://roer4d.org Research on OER for Development] (ROER4D) research program.
  
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393, 17 Main, 35 Cross, Jaya nagar IV T Block, Bengaluru 560041. India
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The experiences from the Subject Teacher Forum program of [http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Subject_Teacher_Forum Karnataka] and [http://troer.telangana.gov.in/OER/index.php/Telangana_ICT_implementation Telangana] informed the development of this toolkit. Acknowledgement is due to the education departments in both states, which invited ITfC to partner them in designing and implementing the program.  ITfC's participation in the Subject Teacher Forum program in these two states was supported by [http://cemca.org.in CEMCA], [https://goo.gl/erN43f Kotak Mahindra Bank CSR] and [http://unicef.org/ UNICEF].  
  
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Phone – 91-80-26654134, [Mailto:ITfC@ITforChange.net Mail] , [http://ITforChange.net Website]
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The experiences from [http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php Karnataka Open Educational Resources] program and the [http://troer.telangana.gov.in/OER/index.php/ Telangana Repository of Open Educational Resources] also informed the development of this toolkit. ITfC's participation in these programs was supported by [http://cemca.org.in CEMCA], [http://centralsquarefoundation.org/ Central Square Foundation], [https://goo.gl/erN43f Kotak Mahindra Bank CSR] and [http://unicef.org/ UNICEF].
  
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ITfC is currently being supported by [https://goo.gl/erN43f Kotak Mahindra Bank CSR] in designing and implementing PLC-OER models across a few states in India.
  
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Latest revision as of 11:05, 19 March 2018

A Professional Learning Community Approach for Teacher Development and OER creation - A toolkit
Preface Introduction to the tool-kit

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. This toolkit is aimed at senior education officials to help them consider 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 participate in the design and implementation of similar programs. Curriculum experts can use the toolkit for exploring digitally enabled participatory approaches to curriculum design and material development. 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 discussed in the tool-kit is shared on-line.

IT for Change
IT for Change

Author

Centre for Education and Technology, IT for Change, Bengaluru, India. Phone – 91-80-26654134, Mail , Website

The toolkit is written by a team of researchers, editors, subject and technology experts from IT for Change, a NGO based in Bengaluru, India.

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

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 - Share Alike 4.0 International (CC BY SA 4.0) License. The custom software distribution is released under the General Public License (GPL). The CC BY SA 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 tool-kit or the software, can be re-distributed only on the same terms.

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.

Acknowledgements

The development of this toolkit 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.

The experiences from the Subject Teacher Forum program of Karnataka and Telangana informed the development of this toolkit. Acknowledgement is due to the education departments in both states, which invited ITfC to partner them in designing and implementing the program. ITfC's participation in the Subject Teacher Forum program in these two states was supported by CEMCA, Kotak Mahindra Bank CSR and UNICEF.

The experiences from Karnataka Open Educational Resources program and the Telangana Repository of Open Educational Resources also informed the development of this toolkit. ITfC's participation in these programs was supported by CEMCA, Central Square Foundation, Kotak Mahindra Bank CSR and UNICEF.

ITfC is currently being supported by Kotak Mahindra Bank CSR in designing and implementing PLC-OER models across a few states in India.

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