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. 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.

The toolkit is released under the CC BY SA license, and 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.

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.

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

393, 17 Main, 35 Cross, Jaya nagar IV T Block, Bengaluru 560041. India

Phone – 91-80-26654134, Mail , Website

The toolkit was written by a team of researchers, editors, subject 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

Acknowledgements

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

The experiences from the Subject Teacher Forum program of Karnataka and Telangana inform the development of this model, and the education departments in both states invited ITfC to partner them in designing and implementing this program. ITfC's participation in this program was supported by UNICEF. The experiences from the Karnataka Open Educational Resources program inform the development of this model. ITfC's participation in this program was supported by UNICEF, CEMCA and Central Square Foundation.

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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