Finalisation of Online Course Contents of CUHP

New Delhi, October 06, 2017: The Expert Review workshop on Open Educational Content Development was organised by Central University of Himachal Pradesh (CUHP) in collaboration with CEMCA, New Delhi. The main objective of the review workshop was to check the quality, accuracy, authenticity and validity of the Open Educational Content developed by 25 faculty members of CUHP. The review workshop was organised from 03-04 October, 2017 at Seminar Hall, TAB, Shahpur. Dr. Indira Koneru facilitated the workshop and provided the support to the workshop participants in developing, delivering and facilitating the open courses. In his welcome address, Dr. Manoj Saxena, Project Director and Dean, School of Education recalled the activities taken up during the first CEMCA-CUHP capacity building workshop held during April, 2017. He hoped that offering Open Courses would improve the outreach and visibility of both the Faculty Members and the University. He requested the Facilitator to address the issues encountered by their technical support team in hosting the CUHP Moodle. 

In his inaugural address, Prof. H.R. Sharma, Pro Vice Chancellor appreciated the CEMCA-CUHP initiative in framing the institutional OER policy and its implementation in the university. He advised the participants to develop open content and open courses in the interest of the students and keep improving the quality based on the feedback of students and other stakeholders. During the two days of the workshop, different sessions were arranged and all the sessions were led by Dr. Indira Koneru. The technical team of the university also acted as scaffolder for the faculty members along with the resource person for finalisation of the OER content. Dr Indira has explained the different steps, which have to be taken into consideration before uploading the OER materials with respect to the copy right and plagiarism related issues which will encounter the content designer in future. She has given first-hand experience to all the faculty members who have attended the workshop with hands on training and presentations. All the faculty members attended the sessions were benefited with the lecture and the training sessions delivered by the resource person. Sixteen faculties were attended the review meeting and most of them have uploaded their prepared OER resources. The meeting was concluded on 4th October, 2017 with: participants sharing their ‘open courses development’ experience; a valedictory address by Professor Kuldeep Chand Agnihotri, Vice-Chancellor, CUHP; and awarding certificates to the participants.