Mobile learning (m-learning) is said to be the next wave of learning (Bonk, 2009). The ITU World Telecommunication (2009) reported an estimate of 4.6 billion mobile cellular telephone subscriptions around the world compared ...

National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), India, is an autonomous organization under the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India, set up in November 1989. NIOS offers Secondary and Sr.Secondary ...

Mangrove Ecosystem of Bhitarkanika: There are many reasons why it is critical that we act to preserve the fragile coastal ecosystem of the Odisha Coast found at Bhitarakanika. Not only is the natural wonder of the sanctuary ...

This paper presents the concept of Resource Based Learning (RBL) in OFDL and nature and use of the OERs to facilitate such learning. It describes the pedagogical Model developed and used by I-CONSENT for creating concept ...

The paper discusses the processes adopted in developing an OER integrated five credit Post Graduate course: ICT in Education, and also the strategy followed at the University for the delivery of the course to distance ...

India currently suffers from an estimated 1.33 million shortfall in teachers and many existing teachers are unqualified, resulting in inadequate access to education and poor standards of learning for those already in the ...

Growing interest in promoting Education for All (Dakar, 2000), open access to educational resources, and the economic imperatives for adopting greater use of open educational resources (OER) (UNESCO 2012 declaration) is ...

Open Educational Resources are freely accessible, usually openly licensed documents and media that are useful for teaching, learning, educational, assessment and research purposes. E-learning is (website, e-books, cd, dvd ...

Introduction // Science and technological developments are influencing the lives of even the common man on the street. These changes have forced us to change the way we look at the teaching learning process in schools. ...

In this paper, an attempt has been made to establish some points which can be seen to constitute certain integral aspects of teaching-learning in the open and distance mode. These are: 1. Learning in ODL must refer ...