Finalisation of OER repository and assigning of CC license to Educational Resources of NSOU

New Delhi, February 18, 2017: The “Meeting-cum-Workshop for Finalisation of OER repository and assigning of CC license to Educational Resources of NSOU” was held on 16^th February, 2017 at 11:00am in the Board Room of Netaji Subhas Open University (NSOU), Kolkata which was a review meeting of the project entitled “OER Initiatives for ICT enabled Programme of Netaji Subhas Open University” with support from CEMCA. All the five members of NSOU OER committee were present in the meeting along with CEMCA consultant Professor Uma Kanjilal, Professor of LIS, Vice-Chancellor of IGNOU and Registrar of Netaji Subhas Open University. The main focus of the meeting was to

i)                    Recommend the revised OER Policy,

ii)                   Assign suitable CC licenses for different print and non-print educational resources of  NSOU and

iii)                 Demonstrate prototype design of NSOU OER Repository.

Ms. Barnali Roy Choudhury & Dr Anirban Ghosh, Project Coordinators gave the Present status of the project and also presented the revised OER policy which was circulated to all the members present in the meeting. A prototype of the OER repository design and system was presented and all members provided their inputs. Educational resources of the university in different forms and formats were also identified and the members present in the meeting recommended CC licenses suitable for each type of educational content. The Consultant from CEMCA requested the team from NSOU to host OER Repository within the stipulated timeframe and suggested to adopt CC licenses as per the OER policy of the university.