Teachers' toolkit for creating and re-purposing OER using FOSS/Preface
In a society that is becoming increasingly digital, it is no surprise that educational processes are also getting impacted by digital technologies (popularly known as Information and Communication Technologies, or simply ICTs). A significant 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 / publish. While the advantages seem obvious in terms of increased availability of curricular materials and reducing costs of education, research suggests that OER seems to have not achieved its potential for adoption
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Acknowledgement: The development of this course material was supported by the Commonwealth of Learning, Burnaby, Canada as part of the Grant #2015-2585 generously made by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, USA.
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Acknowledgements
The toolkit was written by a team of editors, subject experts and technology experts from IT for Change.
Authors – Gurumurthy Kasinathan, Director IT for Change and Sriranjani Ranganathan, Deputy Director IT for Change
Content support - Rakesh B., Technology Associate and Venkatesh T.Gowda, Program Associate
Technical support - Yogesh K.S., Technology Associate
Formatting support - Harish - Technology Assistant and Sunil C., Program Assistant