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Line 1: − '''''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.'''''+ − − 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. − − 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 " − − 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. − − 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. − − Line 18:
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A Professional Learning Community Approach for Teacher Development and OER creation - A toolkit/Preface (view source)
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=== A tool-kit ===
=== 1 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 [http://roer4d.org Research on OER for Development] ROER4D research program
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
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.
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.
=== 2 Copyright ===
=== 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 [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International] ('''CC BY 4.0''') License.
©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.
=== 3 Author ===
=== Author ===
[http://ITforChange.net IT for Change], Bengaluru
[http://ITforChange.net IT for Change], Bengaluru