Commonwealth of Learning (COL)’s regional centre CEMCA organised a workshop on the theme: Developing Open Educational Resources for Distance and Open Learning on 14-15 June 2022 in India. This workshop was aimed at the faculty members of Directorates of Distance Education and Open Universities who are responsible for developing courses for use in their respective universities by curating and using Open Educational Resources (OER).
A total of 23 faculty members from 20 ODL institutions took part in this event.
Professor Nageshwar Rao, Vice-Chancellor, Indira Gandhi National Open University who delivered the inaugural address spoke about the role of CEMCA in promoting OER in the country and stressed the need for the development of policies at the institutional levels.
With the University Grants Commission (UGC)’s Online and Open and Distance Learning Programmes Regulations, 2020, allowing up to 40 percent of course content from OER sources to be used for quality learning, this timely initiative of CEMCA, undertaken in India with reference to National Education Policy 2020 was commendable, he said.