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=== Toolkit for creating OER ===
 
=== Toolkit for creating OER ===
For more information on how teachers can use these tools, please refer to the [[Teachers' toolkit for creating and re-purposing OER using FOSS]]  
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For more information on how teachers can use these tools, please refer to the [[Teachers' toolkit for creating and re-purposing OER using FOSS]]
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=== Challenges ===
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# Collaborative resource creation can be a challenge. Teachers need to learn and internalize working together to create resources, working both through face-to-face interactions and through virtual networks.
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# Quality assurance of resources created by the teachers can be quite difficult. To do a reasonably good review, expertise in content (subject matter), pedagogy of the subject and technology is necessary. This can be shared across members of the review team
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# Configuring and maintaining a technology platform can be a challenge for a state education department, due to lack of suitable staff. However, as ICT becomes an important and integral part of school education, education departments will need to set-up technology support teams, at state and district levels, hiring suitably or taking on contract, suitable resource persons.
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# Use of OER by teachers can also pose a challenge. OER
 
[[Category:A Professional Learning Community Approach for Teacher Development and OER creation - A toolkit]]
 
[[Category:A Professional Learning Community Approach for Teacher Development and OER creation - A toolkit]]