Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia

Emerging Trends for Open Schooling

Sanjaya Mishra

Open Schooling in India

NIOS and NCOS 17 State Open Schools Open Schools in each State in 12th Plan World’s largest Open School system NIOS complete online admission system ODES system at NIOS OER initiative at NIOS Increased student access to ICTs

ICT Trends in India (up to March 2012)

Internet subscribers at 228.6 lakhs Internet users at 10.2% of the

population 45 million Facebook users 908.36 million Mobile users (August

2012) Tele-density at about 80%

Source: Internet Service Provider Association of Indiahttp://www.ispai.in/Stat1-InternetSubsIncludingBroadban.php

Innovating Pedagogy 2012

Pedagogy of eBooks Badges to accredit learning Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) Seamless learning Learning analytics Personal inquiry learning

Pedagogy of eBooks

Can be delivered in low cost tablets like Aakash

Books are multimedia featured due to advancement in technology such as HTML5 and ePub standards

Change in ODL pedagogical approach from supplementary to integrated media rich and interactive

Seamless Learning

Harnessing the power of network Anytime, Anywhere with Internet and

Mobile technologies Collaborate with co-learners as well as

others

Personal Inquiry Learning

Promotes autonomy of learner Help create personal learning

environments on the Internet Facilitates networking with others Build learning environment using Web

2.0

Badges to Accredit Learning

Badges are frameworks to accredit learning that happen outside formal learning environment

Mozilla Foundation has developed Open Badges Infrastructure that can be integrated into other online learning environments

Linking Open Educational Resources to Open Badges can increase “Openness”

Massive Open Online Courses

Emergence of platforms supporting Open Educational Resources

Availability of free access resources online

Network technology enabled distance learning

Started in 2008 as an experiment in University of Manitoba

Examples: Coursera, Udacity, edX

Virtual Schools

First Online High School started in 1994 (CompuHigh)

Over 200 virtual schools are there around the world, mostly in the United States

Also in Australia, Canada, South Korea, and United Kingdom

Open High School of Utah

Small in student enrolment

Totally free education Uses Open

Educational Resources

Accredited courses Also provides one-to-

one tutoring online

Florida Virtual School

Free education Wide ranges for courses Flexibility Accredited State funded

Virtual Open Schooling in India

Readiness at NIOS Platform of NCOS Increased access to Internet Pilot online teaching and learning Feasibility study Action Plan: Technology, Platform,

Courses, Interaction, Assessment, Certification, Regulatory framework for Credit Transfer

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