Open Educational Resource (OER) for Lifelong Learning: Digital Initiatives of India
Volume 8, Issue 1 Neeti Dutta
Published online:10 April 2023
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Lifelong learning has become an essence of a knowledge society. Open educational resources help in realizing the lifelong learning concept in a true sense. India has been able to develop an educational portal under digital initiatives. These are designed and developed by eminent subject experts across various disciplines. These educational online resources are open and free to use along with other in-built characteristics like interactive, shareable, editable, and collaborative. Moreover, these are user-friendly. Most of the online resources developed are using web 2.0 technologies and thus these resources are produced using audio/video, text, animations, and other sites. It is a useful portal for students, teachers, and professionals. Capacity building of teachers, professionals, and training for students is being offered by these online resources. Almost it covers all the emerging fields of science and technology along with humanities, languages, and arts subjects. NEP-2020 has focused its attention on digital initiatives that have been taken in the last 10 years in the field of education ranging from school education to higher and technical and professional education. All these initiatives of digitalization of education available under different platforms like Swayam, DIKSHA, Swayam Prabha, radio and podcast channels which are being carried out for the promotion of quality education, reaching the unreached section, have been converged into one single window called PM E-vidya wherein with click of house all the online resources are available to different stakeholders. This has resulted in optimum utilization of resources, avoiding duplication of efforts, and focused targeted attention with economies of scale. The present paper discusses some of the online educational resources under Digital initiatives taken by the government in the last 10 years.
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