FROM POSTAL MODE TO OER: FIRST EXPERIENCES, CITATION ADVANTAGE AND LESSONS LEARNT IN DISTRIBUTING SELF LEARNING MATERIAL (SLM) ON ACEDEMIA.EDU
Open education resources, distance education, ICDEOL, SLM, OER, DE.
Background: Multicultural diversities get integrated through unified education and objectives (Banks, 1997; Gollnick and Chinn, 1998). International Centre for Distance Education and Open Learning (ICDEOL), Himachal Pradesh University, India, already conscious of these diversities, unifies them with its intellectually and carefully crafted Self Learning Material (SLM) meant for distance learners. But as of now, the university has not posted these SLMs as Open Educational Resources (OERs) (such as open-source/online text books). These lessons are published by a press and then sent through the post to the learner’s address. It is a point worth mentioning here that there is no mechanism or policy in India which directs these universities to work collectively for quality course generation and student-centric framework.
Methods: On Sept 2018, for the first time, the SLMs written for ELT students of ICDEOL, Himachal Pradesh University, India and its affiliated colleges were posted online as OER on academia.edu. The learners were followed as also their activity and reading habits on academia.edu. This process was checked through altmetrics provided by academia.edu. It was observed that most of the learners used Facebook to login SLM. On the other hand, many students used to server of HP University. Conclusions: This paper discusses the opportunities, challenges and lessons learnt after putting SLM of distant learners as OER on online platform for the first time. The present study also evaluates the impact of using SLMs as OER, learners’ perception (Targeted and Non-Targeted Learners), global response as outcome of this action and the role of academia.edu. The citations to the lessons posted on academia.edu increased manifold as it also helped within a year this increased the impact factor of OER. Our students have described experiences which gave us unreported points of reference which will in future help us in understanding so many aspects of placing SLMs as OER.
"FROM POSTAL MODE TO OER: FIRST EXPERIENCES, CITATION ADVANTAGE AND LESSONS LEARNT IN DISTRIBUTING SELF LEARNING MATERIAL (SLM) ON ACEDEMIA.EDU", IJSDR - International Journal of Scientific Development and Research (www.IJSDR.org), ISSN:2455-2631, Vol.5, Issue 1, page no.155 - 159, January-2020, Available :https://ijsdr.org/papers/IJSDR2001027.pdf
Volume 5
Issue 1,
January-2020
Pages : 155 - 159
Paper Reg. ID: IJSDR_191243
Published Paper Id: IJSDR2001027
Downloads: 000347049
Research Area: Engineering
Country: Sanjauli, Himachal Pradesh, India
ISSN: 2455-2631 | IMPACT FACTOR: 9.15 Calculated By Google Scholar | ESTD YEAR: 2016
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