IUC-COL OER Workshop

National Workshop on Open Educational Resources
Venue: Inter University Consortium, Indira Gandhi National Open University, India

Duration: March 06-08, 2013

Organised by: IUC in collaboration with COL

Objectives
The objectives of this three day workshop were to :
 * Explore the educational resources in all Open Universities in India;
 * Collaborate with Open Universities to expand learning networks;
 * Practice the OER processes for creating and sharing the freely available learning resources and
 * Create collection of OER for easy access and sharing among all open universities in India.

Resource Persons
The Resource Persons for this three day workshop were Prof. Madhulika Kaushik, Education Specialist (Higher Education), Commonwealth of Learning, Canada and Dr. Ramesh Sharma, Deputy Director, Indira Gandhi National Open University, India.



Workshop Methodology
All the participants for the workshop were provided individual attention and hands-on experience in all the sessions. The participants were requested to bring content material (if possible, software copy) of their own discipline / choice. The plan for each session included:
 * Locating the OER resources by the participants
 * Creating Individual Learning Kits