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=== Subject Teacher Forum program - building professional learning communities of teachers ===

=== Subject Teacher Forum program - building professional learning communities of teachers ===

The Centre for Education and Technology, IT for Change (ITfC) designed the Subject Teacher Forum program (STF) in-service teacher education program, in Karnataka and Telangana in partnership with the education departments of both states. The STF  focused on building professional learning communities of teachers, using digital methods for e-content creation, subject-teaching and networking.

The Centre for Education and Technology, IT for Change (ITfC) designed the Subject Teacher Forum program (STF) in-service teacher education program, in Karnataka and Telangana in partnership with the education departments of both states. The STF  focused on building professional learning communities of teachers, using digital methods for e-content creation, subject-teaching and networking. Thus the STF program is a model of ''''PLC-OER'''<nowiki/>' ('''Professional Learning Communities''' of teachers, developing '''Open Educational Resources,''' for their own professional development, as well as for subject teaching. The experiences from this program have contributed to the development of the PLC-OER model, which is the subject of this toolkit.  

[[File:Kolar_HTF_4th_Batch.jpg|alt=STF workshop|thumb|STF workshop]]The Karnataka [http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Subject_Teacher_Forum STF] (2011-16) developed the capacities of 20,000+ Mathematics, Science, Social Science, English and Kannada teachers across 4,500 government high schools, built the bi-lingual [http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php Karnataka Open Educational Resources] (KOER) repository and contributed to curriculum revisions and e-learning courses.  Teachers have exchanged resources and experiences on the mailing lists and on several mobile phone based learning communities, most deal with academic issues and resources. The academic resources from 150,000+ emails shared in the forums, have been published on the Karnataka Open Educational Resources (KOER) web portal.  KOER contains 8,000+ web page teacher created resources and 4,000+ files for Mathematics, Science and Social Science subjects in English and Kannada languages.  

[[File:Kolar_HTF_4th_Batch.jpg|alt=STF workshop|thumb|STF workshop]]The Karnataka [http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Subject_Teacher_Forum STF] (2011-16) developed the capacities of 20,000+ Mathematics, Science, Social Science, English and Kannada teachers across 4,500 government high schools, built the bi-lingual [http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php Karnataka Open Educational Resources] (KOER) repository and contributed to curriculum revisions and e-learning courses.  Teachers have exchanged resources and experiences on the mailing lists and on several mobile phone based learning communities, most deal with academic issues and resources. The academic resources from 150,000+ emails shared in the forums, have been published on the Karnataka Open Educational Resources (KOER) web portal.  KOER contains 8,000+ web page teacher created resources and 4,000+ files for Mathematics, Science and Social Science subjects in English and Kannada languages.  

=== Components of the PLC-OER model ===

=== Components of the PLC-OER model ===

The model has the following components:

The PLC-OER model has the following components (see the graphic provided in this section, which outlines all four components):[[File:Scaled PLC-OER Model.png|alt=PLC-OER Model|thumb|PLC-OER model components]]Establishing ICT infrastructure in schools and teacher education institutions.

#[[File:Scaled PLC-OER Model.png|alt=PLC-OER Model|thumb|PLC-OER Model]]Establishing ICT infrastructure in schools and teacher education institutions

# Teacher capacity building to integrate ICT in the following areas

# Teacher capacity building to integrate ICT in the following areas

## Digital literacy

## Digital literacy