Facilitators’ Workshop for OER-based eLearning held at Dr. BRAOU, Hyderabad, 7-9 January,2014

New Delhi; 10/01/2014: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) in collaboration with Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University (BRAOU), Hyderabad organised the Facilitators’ Workshop for OER-based eLearning from 7-9 January 2014. CEMCA has initiated the development of an online professional development course for integration of Open Educational Resources (OER) in teaching and learning, and help institutions deliver eLearning programmes efficiently and effectively. This activity started as an institutional capacity development programme at Wawasan Open University, Malaysia, and teachers form the leading institutions in the Asian Commonwealth have contributed to the development of the contents over the last 12 months. The workshop at Hyderabad facilitated by Dr. Som Naidu, focussed on the online delivery of the professional development programme and developed online activities the learners of the programme would do to earn open badges for the five modules. Participants from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), National Institute of Open Schooling (India), Open University of Sri Lanka, Open University of Malaysia, Wawasan Open University, Penang, and BRAOU, Hyderabad participated in the workshop to contribute and share experiences of online facilitation for teaching and learning. One representative from Higher Education Commission, Pakistan also attended the workshop. While CEMCA will offer this programme online, it is also expected that participating institutions and others in the region would use the content developed to develop and strengthen capacities on OER-based eLearning.