OSOUW INTRO

World Open Education Resource (OER) Congress was held in Paris during June 2012. The experts supported extensively the use of OER in 2012 Paris OER Declaration. The declaration emphasized on fostering awareness and use of OER, OER Policies, use of open licensing frameworks and research on OER etc.

Pacing with the above OER movement and aligning with National Policy shifting towards “Equity in quality education for all”, Odisha State Open University (OSOU), established in 2015, is mandated to adopt OERs at the Institutional level and create a policy for the University. Furthering the process, OSOU is planned to have a Workshop on Open Education Resources in collaboration with Commonwealth Education Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) to train the stakeholders who shall be assisting OSOU in preparing contents under Open Licenses for the knowledge communities of the state. The workshop is conducted by experts from CEMCA, New Delhi from 11th to 13th February 2016 at IGNOU Regional Center, Bhubneshwar, Odisha.

This workshop will spread the OER awareness and provide a platform for faculty and others to upload the contents created, adopted by them.