Bilaspur University adopted OER Policy for Blended Learning

New Delhi, 08 September, 2018: Bilaspur University (BU), Bilaspur has organized one day Leadership meeting titled “Bilaspur University OER Policy for Blended Learning” on 4th September 2018 in collaboration with Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), New Delhi. This meeting was planned in order to involve Principals of all affiliated colleges and Faculty members of Teaching Department of Bilaspur University in OER policy framing process o development of open educational resources under the CEMCA-BU projectprior to this workshop one day awareness programme on Open Educational Resources (OER) was organized for the university’s affiliated colleges’ principals. Dr. Manas Ranjan Panigrahi, Programme Officer, CEMCA, New Delhi was the resource person and interacted with the Principals on different components of the policy. There were total 45 participants in the meeting.

The Programme was started with formal inaugural ceremony. During the address session, Prof. G.D. Sharma, Honb’le Vice Chancellor Bilaspur University has explained milestones of CEMCA-BU project which is on the basis of with CEMCA’s Higher Education Integrated Model. He also clarified importance of OER Policy to the participants. Dr. Panigrahi discussed the draft OER policy of Bilaspur University and at the end suggestions were taken on the policy draft. During the meeting it was decided to get the suggestions for further improvement from all the stakeholders of the University through online.