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Building a Sustainable Community of Practice for ODDL to Support Curriculum Co-creation Between The Open University (UK) and Indira Gandhi National Open University, India
Abstract
There is an urgent requirement for Online, Distance and Digitally Delivered Learning (ODDL) capacity building in India and South Asia, where supporting equitable participation in quality education, in line with UNESCO Sustainable Development Goal 4, is a huge challenge. Recent research indicates that ODDL quality is variable and that there is a similarly urgent requirement for training supporting educators in designing and delivering ODDL that meets diverse learners’ needs and implements pedagogical and technological innovations appropriate to local contexts.
This paper, in its current form, outlines the activities and aims of a British Council India-funded collaboration between The Open University (UK) (OU UK) and Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), India - the ‘Co-Create ODDL’ project. The project is intended to support ODDL capacity-building by scoping and cocreating the structure for a Postgraduate Certificate in Digital Education, for delivery by IGNOU in India and South Asia, and by establishing and nurturing a sustainable, transnational online community of practice offering educators and related professionals opportunities for knowledge exchange, practice sharing and peer support.
The Co-Create ODDL project is still in its early stages at time of writing the current version of this paper, which identifies relevant literature, details the project research strategy, and offers a summary of emergent findings from a needs analysis and technological readiness-focused survey of educators in India and South Asia. Prior to PCF11, the paper will be updated to report the findings of each stage of the project’s mixed methods research strategy an exploration of the ways in which the UK-India community of practice has been operated, and discussion of how the project’s co-creation approach has been enacted to involve a wide range of stakeholder voices, offering a model for international, cross-institutional curriculum co-creation.
PCF11 Sub-Theme: Sustaining Communities of Learning and Practice in Innovative Open Education
Paper ID: 9742
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India, United Kingdom
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Asia, Europe
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2025-09
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Commonwealth of Learning (COL)