Second Institutional Capacity Building Workshop at Wawasan Open University, Penang, Malaysia, June 10-14,2013

Second Institutional Capacity Building Workshop at Wawasan Open University, Penang, Malaysia, 10-14 June 2013

New Delhi, 24/06/2013: CEMCA organised the second institutional capacity building workshop for OER-based eLearning from 10-14 June, 2013. Based on the agreement reached at the first workshop held in January 2013, participants worked in groups to develop five modules on integrating OER in teaching and learning in between the first and the second workshop. In the second workshop, the participants presented the modules, and through peer review and discussion, revised the modules to take the project to the next level. The five modules developed are: (i)  Concepts and Practices in Open Education, (ii) Principles of eLearning Experience Design, (iii) Evaluating and Selecting OER; (iv)  Open Content Licensing, and (v) Integrating OER in eLearning. Besides these five modules, four case studies on integrating OER in teaching-learning have also been prepared by the participants. Though the number of participants in the workshop dropped from the first one, those 15 participants who attend the second workshop demonstrated high level of understanding in integrating OER in developing new learning resources, as they developed scenario-based learning materials on the subject itself. This provided the participants a role-based learning environment to develop content on OER. It is expected that these materials will now undergo a finalization process to enable CEMCA to release these materials as OER and offer an online professional development course.