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Open Education; need of the hour

2012-01-25T20:30:00.002+05:30

[To me] Open Education refers to a complex of various facilities that provide education opportunities without the barriers of money, time, place, cumbersome procedures etc. It is related to Open Educational Resources (OER) in such a way that the Open Education is a system and OER is the fuel that enlivens the system. Cape Town Open Education Declaration says: “However, open education is

Resolutions for 2012

2011-12-31T12:49:00.003+05:30

Ensure substantial decline in the use of carbon fuels. Rather than pondering on national and global targets, let us set personal (individual) targets! More thrust is given to establish and manage efficient public transport systems to reduce the use of private vehicles. No more deforestation. Intelligent use of available land for agriculture and further popularisation of environment friendly

How open was 2011?

2011-12-10T16:53:00.001+05:30

How open was the world in information/knowledge sharing in 2011? Naturally this query takes us to review the advancements in OER domain. While thinking about OER, the first thing that comes to my mind is the statement “ 2011 would be a quantum shift year in the mainstream adoption of OER” that Dr. Wayne Mackintosh usually adds in his emails. Definitely, 2011 is a quantum shift year for OER.

OERu anchor partner and stakeholder meeting; prototype courses in 2012

2011-11-17T19:36:00.001+05:30

Inaugural open planning meeting of the founding anchor partners and stakeholders of OER Tertiary Education Network (OERTen) for OER university was held at the Council Room of the Open Polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand on 9th and 10th November, 2011. There was also global virtual participation (both synchronous and asynchronous) supported by online streaming (funded by UNESCO), ether pad (

Guidelines for OER in Higher Education by UNESCO and COL

2011-11-02T15:10:00.000+05:30

Yesterday (Nov 1, 2011) UNESCO and COL together have brought out the ‘Guidelines for OER in Higher Education’ at the UNESCO General Conference at Paris Headquarters. It is also a natural outcome for UNESCO as it had coined the "OER" phrase in 2002. Perhaps an ideal memento to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the phrase - which has been working as a catalyst in converging and strengthening

Living in a 10 billion plus world

2011-11-01T13:01:00.001+05:30

A UN press release dated May 3, 2011 says: "The current world population of close to 7 billion is projected to reach 10.1 billion in the next ninety years, reaching 9.3 billion by the middle of this century, according to the medium variant of the 2010 Revision of World Population Prospects, the official United Nations population projections prepared by the Population Division of the Department

US - INDIA joint statement on Higher Education & exploring models for 21 cy institutions

2011-10-16T11:33:00.000+05:30

The joint statement issued at the conclusion of the US-India higher education summit held in Washington on 13th October 2011 lists proposals for many forward-looking initiatives, which the two countries endorsed to take up, based on the resolve of the stakeholders from academia, government, and industry. Two things in the statement that attracted me the most are: the the proposal to

THOUGHTS ON THE EVE OF INDO-US HIGHER EDUCATION SUMMIT

2011-10-11T20:48:00.000+05:30

As US and India are getting ready for the Higher Education Summit on October 13, 2011, two important things come to my mind are: Possibility of collaborative efforts to develop OER Availability of effective systems to make use of existing OERs and the ability to further build on it would be crucial factors in leading future higher education systems to success. Perhaps, India and US can work

VUSSC; the start of a revolution in transborder education

2011-10-04T23:36:00.000+05:30

The Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth (VUSSC), through its Transnational Qualifications Framework, has marked the start of a revolution in transborder education. Now it is the turn of Open Educational Resource university (OERu) ! The Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth (VUSSC) is a mechanism for the small countries to collaboratively develop courses

UNESCO-COL Guidelines for Open Educational Resources in Higher Education

2011-09-12T12:39:00.001+05:30

As we have discussed many times earlier, the Higher Education Sector (all over the world) has not yet started to exploit the merits of Open Educational Resources in its full ambit and true spirits. One of the major reasons for this situation is the absence of appropriate guidelines/policies/statutes at the level of Governments and Higher Education providers on the production and use of OER.

EduMOOC; Online Learning Tomorrow 2011-2021

2011-08-21T21:46:00.000+05:30

The final week at EduMOOC was a time for forecasting (the future of online learning) based on the logically coherent discussions and documents we went through during the past seven weeks, and of course, based on further references as well. I firmly believe that Open Distance Learning, with the support of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Information and Communication Technology (

EduMOOC; Collaboratives, Collectives and Clouds

2011-08-15T18:48:00.020+05:30

Hi friends, Topic for the seventh week at EduMOOC was “Collaboratives, Collectives and Clouds”. Giving simple and easily understandable definition to all the three words in the topic name seems to be very important to approach the subject from the right angle. A collaborative means working together to achieve a common objective (s), whereas collective means collective works in a domain

EduMOOC; Personal Online Learning Networks

2011-08-07T19:37:00.022+05:30

I think, in the sixth week at EduMOOC, we touched the core of online learning - the Personal Online Learning Networks. We can find that every thing in this universe transmit some kind of information and It is eternal. Again every living being has some facility to receive and store information that are vital to their existence. But in the human context, owe to the genetic peculiarity, human

EduMOOC; Public, Private & Open - Online Learning.

2011-07-31T15:49:00.010+05:30

Hi friends, Fifth week at EduMOOC was a week for reviewing the business process and their social implications relating to various business models of ODL systems - Public, Private & Open - Online Learning. I found the following two blogs written by Sir John Daniel, President and Chief Executive Officer of Commonwealth of Learning (http://www.col.org/BLOG) very much relevant to the fifth week’s

EduMOOC; Online Learning Apps and Mobile Learning

2011-07-24T21:58:00.012+05:30

Hi friends, we had a challenging topic for the fourth week at EduMOOC - “Online Learning Apps and Mobile Learning”. Have the technologies once again changed the way we teach and learn? Is the Learning Management System dead - replaced by apps and mobile access? If you google for apps - the short name we use to mention applications or application programs, you will see that, in majority of the

EduMOOC; Online Technologies Today and Tomorrow

2011-07-13T12:49:00.014+05:30

During the first two weeks , because of the pressures of daily works, I was able to add my blogs on EduMOOC weekly topics only at the end of each weekly discussion. I believe that blogs are suggested to be added during the course of the weekly discussions itself. Therefore, in this week I prefer to be a good learner :) ...and hence this blog now. While thinking about the topic

EduMOOC; What the research tells us

2011-07-10T17:03:00.006+05:30

“Economic pressures and new models of education are presenting unprecedented competition to traditional models of the university. The twin challenges of providing high-quality services and controlling costs continue to impel institutions to seek creative solutions” - The Horizon Report 2011 Second week's topic for EduMOOC was- "What the Research Tells Us", which is really an interesting

EduMOOC; Online Learning Today

2011-07-03T10:11:00.011+05:30

EduMOOC is an eight week (starting from 27th June, 2011) Massive Online Open Course being conducted by the Center for Online Learning, Research, and Service at the University of Illinois Springfield on “Online Learning Today... and Tomorrow”.The course is coordinated by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus & Director, UOI. As a newbie to MOOC my initial impression is that MOOC is a self guided

Open Licensing; two important policy initiatives

2011-06-22T10:31:00.004+05:30

Recently open licensing domain witnessed two great policy initiatives. On 30th May, 2011, the Commonwealth of Learning website reported a policy decision taken at the Commonwealth of Learning (http://www.col.org) to promote the use of open licensing, , relating to OER, in governments and institutions and release its own (COL’s) materials under the most feasible open licenses including

OERu to establish OERTen

2011-05-25T16:37:00.008+05:30

After the open planning meeting in March 2011, the Open Education Resources university concept has undergone elaborate discussions in many local, national and international venues. The need

Nuclear Energy and the need for taking up radiation challenges

2011-03-30T14:35:00.012+05:30

During last few days I was reading OERs, other studies and reports on Nuclear energy, and radiation in particular. So far I am convinced that Nuclear Energy is a reliable source of energy. Most probably we do not have the information about any other sustainable mechanism of energy generation to meet our energy needs. However we cannot help but raise our eyebrows when we think about

OER university; Open planning meeting

2011-02-23T00:44:00.051+05:30

The Open Planning Meeting that would pave way for the establishment of Open Educational Resources university (OERu) was held in the Council Room, Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand from 9am to 5pm NZDST on 23/02/2011. A live streaming of the meeting (with the support of UNESCO Office for pacific states) was also available at the OERu channel in the Ustream. In his welcome address Dr

Towards an OER University

2011-02-08T11:18:00.014+05:30

In a joint Media release the OER Foundation, New Zealand and the UNESCO Office for pacific states have announced their decision to to host a strategic international meeting in Dunedin on 23 February, to commence planning for the provision of free learning to all students worldwide. Support from the United Nations Science and Education Organisation (UNESCO) to stream the meeting on the

Success and reach of Learning4Content (L4C); a facilitator’s testimony

2011-01-20T22:22:00.026+05:30

Learning4content (L4C) is an innovative wiki skills training programme of Wikieducator.org project, presently facilitated by the Open Educational Resources Foundation (OERF). The L4C was started as a sub project of the eLearning for development programme of Commonwealth of Learning (COL) with funding support from the Hewlett Foundation, when COL was the home for Wikieducator.org project.

A revolutionary decade of Wikipedia

2011-01-12T12:41:00.013+05:30

Wikipedia completes a revolutionary decade on 15th January 2011. The concept of an open source web-based online encyclopedia was proposed by Richard Stallman around 1999. Wikipedia was formally launched on 15 January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger using the concept and technology of a wiki pioneered by Ward Cunningham. Wikipedia was originally started as a side-project to allow

When 2010 leaves…

2010-12-31T14:04:00.018+05:30

This blog is my New Year’s Eve cocktail. Today I’ll keep on writing this as and when thoughts come to my mind, amidst some other works, till I think it's enough. Therefore, there may not be a proper order. Well, it's fine, I don’t want to edit their order…let them appear on this page as they come… The first imprint of 2010 in my mind is the recognition of climate change as a reality. Though it

Cancún Agreements & Knowledge/Technology/Support/Funds Sharing

2010-12-12T10:48:00.004+05:30

As a volunteer supporter of OER and open technologies, I think, the agreements adopted by the United Nation’s Climate Change Conference in Cancún, Mexico (that concluded on 11 December, 2010) have opened up promising venues for knowledge/technology/support/funds sharing. This is definitely the most required thing and hence a great success. Because pushing planet friendly technologies to the

Taking OER beyond the OER Community; my response 3

2010-11-17T21:44:00.004+05:30

Taking OER beyond the OER Community is a joint initiative of UNESCO and Commonwealth of Learning (COL). I am posting here my responses in the series of online discussions conducted as part of the above initiative. My responses to the queries on the two themes:- (1) Policy and capacity (2) What works, what does not and under what conditions? were added here earlier. Today, response to the

Taking OER beyond the OER Community; my responses in the online discussions

2010-11-14T20:41:00.013+05:30

Taking OER beyond the OER Community is a joint initiative of UNESCO and Commonwealth of Learning (COL). I am posting here my responses in the series of online discussions conducted as part of the above initiative. The responses in this blog are related to the queries on the following two themes:- (1) Policy and capacity & (2) What works, what does not and

When simplicity would mean survival...

2010-10-10T10:10:00.046+05:30

Do we have an one word solution for all the problems of our world? Yes, we do have. That one word magical answer is SIMPLICITY. Mahatma Gandhi, India’s father of nation has told that “I cannot help thinking that it would be a great catastrophe. a great national tragedy, if you were to barter away your simplicity for this tinsel splendour" As today (October 10) being World Mental Health Day,

Vienna

2010-09-20T10:24:00.011+05:30

Saturday, 22, 2010; sixth day of the International Training Programme at ICPE, Slovenia and it was the day for second field trip; our destination was Vienna - the capital city of Austria (the previous day we visited Venice). Apart from the status of the capital city, Vienna is also one of the nine states in the Republic of Austria. It is also the prominent cultural, economic and political

Need for State Owned Public Conveyance Systems

2010-09-07T13:44:00.010+05:30

Though the title of the article is indicative of public transport systems in general, I would like to concentrate on the need for state owned public transport systems on roads. It is particularly important because of the gigantic proportion that the vehicles on road own with respect to all crucial parameters such as total number, the number of passengers it transport, the number of accidents it

Venice; the Floating City

2010-08-11T10:05:00.003+05:30

Friday, May 21, 2010; it was the 5th day of our Training Programme at ICPE, Ljubljana, Slovenia and the day was for understanding the social, cultural and industrial lives in and around Slovenia - our destination was Venice and we started from Hotel Austria Trend, Ljubljana to Venice around 8 A.M by a bus arranged by ICPE. We travelled from Ljubljana to Trieste and further on to Venice. The

An International Training at ICPE

2010-07-04T12:33:00.013+05:30

As mentioned in my last blog on Slovenia, we arrived in Ljubljana airport on 16th May, 2010 as part of an international training programme on Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management in Government Sector at International Centre for Promotion of Enterprises (ICPE). Mr Gašper Koprivšek, Project Manager of ICPE was waiting for us at the airport. The training was a three week programme of

SLOVENIA; An Ever Green Beauty in the Central Europe

2010-06-04T21:57:00.033+05:30

As our Turkish Flight approached Ljubljana airport for landing in the afternoon on 18/05/2010, my heart overwhelmed in the mesmeric beauty of the nature below and I murmured to me “Slovenia is far more enchanting than what I’ve read”. I was a member of the group traveling to Slovenia in connection with a training programme organized by National Institute of Finance Management (NIFM), India in

India; an emerging knowledge economy

2010-04-02T12:38:00.060+05:30

In the new economic order of Knowledge Economy, knowledge leads the way for wealth creation. Knowledge is extensively used either as a product or a tool for economic prosperity. This blog highlights the enabling environments in India that facilitate the emergence of India as a Knowledge Economy. Enabling Environment: Formal Education System Historic Innovations With traceable history of

Knowledge Economies & Lifelong Learning

2010-03-15T13:04:00.009+05:30

During my childhood, we children had heard a thousand times our grandparents, parents and teachers saying "Knowledge is the greatest wealth". We used to take it as a spiritual saying. But now all of us realize that it is a material truth as well. In the new economic order knowledge leads the way for wealth creation. Knowledge is extensively used either as a product or a tool for economic

Need for a Consortium for alternative open technologies

2010-02-01T20:00:00.033+05:30

In my last blog 'To save our PLANET' I have presented an abstract idea about the need of a Consortium of all Nations for developing and popularizing alternative PLANET friendly technologies in place of existing technologies that are dangerous to the health of our precious planet. I think it as the need of the time and perhaps an effective follow up for Copenhagen. Paragraph 10 of the Copenhagen

To save our PLANET

2009-12-20T13:31:00.081+05:30

We want to save our planet, but how? ...if the future environmental situations would force the world population to queue up for the daily ration of oxygen supply, floating over water and wearing heavy insulated suits, all prosperity would mean nothing but a curse. Value of money will be lost once the PLANET is sick. We do not want this nightmare to happen. The Climate Change Conference in

Wayanad; everlasting memories of a travel

2009-10-14T12:50:00.022+05:30

Wayanad, a northern district of Kerala state (my state) in India is always a passion for our friend Nelson, who has worked there for many years before joining us in Thiruvananthapuram, the State Head Quarters of Kerala. Through his narrations we (the other friends) have also got attracted to the place. Usually every year, we conduct two-three days trekking tour. This time we have decided to

WikiEducator; a promising star in the OER world

2009-09-29T13:54:00.024+05:30

Dr. Wayne along with school children after signing Open Education Declaration at Warrington School Otago WikiEducator (www.wikieducator.org) is an online community project founded by Dr. Wayne Mackintosh for working collaboratively towards a free version of the education curriculum. It was launched in 2006 using MediaWiki, a free and open technology. WikiEducator aims to build a thriving

ONLINE OPEN DISTANCE LEARNING; Promise for the future

2009-09-27T09:53:00.004+05:30

A saturated classroom study setup. Development of formal classroom study setups are now in a saturated situation. In most places further development of infrastructure for conventional classroom learning, especially for higher education, is quite difficult. In the administrative side reasons are many like constrain of space, resources, etc. In the learners' and parents' side, now a day, majority

Transnational Qualification Framework (TQF)

2009-09-22T10:02:00.000+05:30

A Transnational Qualification Framework (TQF) is a developing system of framework for educational qualifications that would be recognized internationally. A Qualification Framework is primarily an official document that clearly defines each and every qualification brought under it. It may also provide a hierarchy of qualifications. In system view it is a meta-data model that is an all

eGovernance - A quick starter guide

2009-09-21T14:51:00.000+05:30

I. INTRODUCTION Now a day eGovernance occupies the topmost position in the agenda of almost all Governments in the world and lot of public money is being pumped to eGovernance initiatives. Therefore very intelligent planning is required to produce desired returns. eGovernance can be defined as ICT assisted Good governance. Therefore eGovernance initiatives necessarily should have all the

My World! (Poem)

2009-08-28T10:21:00.006+05:30

Dreams... They gave me expectations; Expectations... They led me forward. Experiences... They gave me wisdom; Wisdom... It enlightened my thoughts; Thoughts... They built my world! var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script

Right from me to you

2009-08-28T10:13:00.005+05:30

Even though we are all trying to make our planet a peaceful place to live, the situation is worsening day by day. Why? The question will definitely bring in silence for a few moments. This silence means confusion. Great level of confusion prevails among the policy makers as well as the field workers. As we are all aware of, there is no shortcut to achieve peace. Whatever been achieved through

Let me seek it! (Poem)

2009-08-28T10:05:00.006+05:30

It's like a dream Half revealed and Half unrevealed Gives a feel that's familiar Still remains to be Unfamiliar always Seems to be near But remains to be Far…far…away Raises temptations As if among the sweetest While showering pains Spreading fear As if a dreaded While remains to be lovely Let me seek it Though uncertain mostly About how it looks like! var gaJsHost = (("https:" ==

They longed to hear the loud bang again - Flash fiction

2009-08-28T09:45:00.004+05:30

The Anesthetist signaled okay. The patient was shifted to the operating table from the amphitheatre. The Junior Doctors waited for the crash-landing of Prof. (Dr.) Narendran, their Department Head with hearts throbbing with fear. He was a real terror to them. It was very much visible in their faces also. They used to call his arrival as crash-landing because he used to rush in to the Operation

The Quake - Short Story

2009-08-28T09:40:00.005+05:30

It was the hardest winter in his memory. He shivered heavily in the piercing winter wind as the full Moon peeped through the pale yellow sheath of snow. The view of the village in the yellow moonlight frightened him. The collapsed structures reminded him of the Giants in the fairy tales. Only relief was a small group of people who were sitting nearby. Salim once again recollected the incidents

Obsessed in writing - Flash Fiction

2009-08-28T09:34:00.004+05:30

IT was raining heavily out side. An unexpected thunderbolt banged. Power went out. Mad winds pounded the doors and windows. Normally he liked the untamed forces of the nature. But this time an unknown fear filled in his heart. He did not know why. 'Human mind is like this. It behaves strangely at times' he tried to console himself. Suddenly a knock heard at the front door. His fears crossed

A Strange Farewell - Flash Fiction

2009-08-28T09:31:00.004+05:30

Yesterday she had a dream about him. He was seen injured and lain unconscious on the stone bench of a park that was seemed familiar to her. He was her classmate in high school. He was always kind and compassionate to her while in difficulties and offered unconditional support. But she never returned it, because she was always busy with her weekly, monthly, terminal and annual exam schedules.

Need for Travel

2009-08-26T14:52:00.019+05:30

Do people need to travel these much? As the world is becoming a Global Village, the scope/area of involvements for individuals and resultant requirement of travels are being augmented steadily. Over and above all other reasons, traveling a lot is widely considered as a matter of pride. This is also one of the factors that prompt people to set out for travel without considering the necessity. But

External Links

2009-08-19T13:53:00.017+05:30

WikiEducator Wikipedia Commonwealth of Learning Solution Exchange, an initiative of the United Nations Agencies in India for development practitioners in India Development Gateway International Center for Promotion of Enterprises (ICPE), Ljubljana, Slovenia A Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth (VUSSC) Open Course Library Web of Stephen Downes var gaJsHost = (("https

General Articles

2009-08-17T16:03:00.026+05:30

Index of my writings on General Issues available on this blog Living in a 10 billion plus world US - INDIA joint statement on Higher Education & exploring models for 21 cy institutions THOUGHTS ON THE EVE OF INDO-US HIGHER EDUCATION SUMMIT Nuclear Energy and the need for taking up radiation challenges A revolutionary decade of Wikipedia When 2010 leaves… Cancún Agreements & Knowledge/

OER

2009-08-17T15:50:00.019+05:30

Index of my writings on Open Educational Resources How open was 2011? OERu anchor partner and stakeholder meeting; prototype courses in 2012 Guidelines for OER in Higher Education by UNESCO and COL US - INDIA joint statement on Higher Education & exploring models for 21 cy institutions THOUGHTS ON THE EVE OF INDO-US HIGHER EDUCATION SUMMIT VUSSC; the start of a revolution in transborder

Poems

2009-08-17T15:48:00.005+05:30

Index of my poems available on this blog My World! Let me seek it! var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-10874595-2"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}

Stories

2009-08-17T15:44:00.011+05:30

Index of my stories available on this blog Flash Fiction They longed to hear the loud bang again Obsessed in writing A Strange Farewell Separated by Time Short Stories The Quake See my Malayalam (official language of Kerala State in India) Stories at http://apletters-ml.blogspot.com/ var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");

Thought of the day

2009-08-17T15:09:00.085+05:30

A place to archive my thoughts from the 'Thought of the day' column Sunday, January 15, 2012 "We have to explore the possibilities of ICT , to the maximum extent possible, to protect our green planet!." Wednesday, November 2, 2011 "When the world population would touch 10 billion mark towards the end of the current century itself, the only powerful tools in our hands to meet the demand

A trip to Sundarbans

2009-07-02T11:33:00.001+05:30

Sundarbans It was a fine Friday of 29th May 2009, the last day of the 5 day ‘Learning for Content and Community Building Workshop’ that I was facilitating for Commonwealth of Learning in association with Rupantar, a leading NGO, in Khulna, Bangaldesh. The fifth day was for field trip and casual discussions; a community building exercise. In the morning, around 8 AM, Shaikh Abdul Halim,

Miscellaneous

2009-01-08T11:17:00.003+05:30

Miscellaneous works Experimenting WikiEducator iframe feature

WikiEducator help page (iframe)

2009-01-08T09:08:00.007+05:30

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Travelogues

2008-11-05T15:06:00.006+05:30

Vienna VENICE; the Floating City SLOVENIA; An Ever Green Beauty in the Central Europe A trip to Sundarbans Wayanad; everlasting memories of a travel

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2008-10-04T11:00:00.006+05:30

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Good Governance; 18 point policy

2008-08-28T10:35:00.009+05:30

Most often Good Governance is felt through excellent counter services. The term ‘counter services' denotes all the primary services of the governments to the public. Here the counters are actually ‘Service Delivery Points'. While observing the functioning of various service delivery points in government in general, we can consolidate 18 important principles as given below for attaining

Separated by Time - Flash Fiction

2007-08-16T10:11:00.005+05:30

He sat in the Metro train to the airport with a swollen heart. His mind hesitated to give up hope and his eyes scanned each metro station for her. She was his childhood friend. He met her again five years ago, quite unexpectedly, in a conference . She told him that she was a freelance reporter in Singapore and invited him to visit her when he goes there. He was trying to locate her in the metro