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Teachers' toolkit for creating and re-purposing OER using FOSS/Publishing OER (view source)
Revision as of 15:09, 28 February 2017
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One of the great challenges that teachers face is isolation in their practice. To address this, communities of practice have been written about as a method of reducing teacher isolation and supporting teacher professional development. When teachers are supported to interact in a free and open technology environment, they are able to support one another in the creation of open educational resources using multiple tools and processes. Such an environment, supported by online and virtual methods, can build collaboration amongst teachers, thus supporting the community as well. OER creation and re-use could well be the context and outcome of teacher communities. Creation of a free and open technology environment is what could make this a reality.
One of the great challenges that teachers face is isolation in their practice. To address this, communities of practice have been written about as a method of reducing teacher isolation and supporting teacher professional development. When teachers are supported to interact in a free and open technology environment, they are able to support one another in the creation of open educational resources using multiple tools and processes. Such an environment, supported by online and virtual methods, can build collaboration amongst teachers, thus supporting the community as well. OER creation and re-use could well be the context and outcome of teacher communities. Creation of a free and open technology environment is what could make this a reality.
[[Category:Teachers' toolkit for creating and re-purposing OER using FOSS]]
[[Category:Teachers' toolkit for creating and re-purposing OER using FOSS]]
As mentioned earlier, [http://mediawiki.org MediaWiki] is a platform that can be used by Communities of Practice of teachers to collaborate in creating, re-purposing and publishing OER. While Wikipedia is an example of collaboratively created OER, that seeks to meet the information needs of all, the Karnataka Open Educational Resources (KOER) portal aims to meet the needs of teachers of Karnataka. Created by a the Communities of Practice of Government high school teachers, the KOER [http://mediawiki.org MediaWiki] portal has their contribution in the subject areas of Mathematics, Science, Social Science and Languages. This model of OER creation and re-purposing by a community of teachers can be adopted by other institutions or education systems.
=== OER created as part of the toolkit ===
=== OER created as part of the toolkit ===