Koneru Bhaskara Rao & Hemalata Human Development Foundation

The National Education Policy 2020 of India emphasizes on offering pre-service and in-service teacher education programmes and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Programmes (at least 50 hours every year) for teacher educators and principals through blended or ODL modes. UGC ODL and Online Programmes Regulations, 2020 recommends sourcing 40% of OER for developing online courses / […]

On the eve of Open Education Week - March 4-8, 2024, KBR & HL Human Development Foundation and Department of Library and Information Science, Andhra University are jointly organizing a Webinar on "OER Literacy for LIS Professionals". This webinar aims to raise awareness about OER among the Indian LIS professionals in line with the UNESCO's […]

Open textbooks, a subset of open educational resources (OER) are digitally structured open textbooks, released in adaptable and shareable formats, with a Creative Commons  (CC) license. Open textbooks enable teachers to develop and update textbooks in alignment with their curricular needs and to improve students access to quality learning content. Pressbooks, a WordPress-based open textbooks […]

The MOOCs being offered on SWAYAM following the four-quadrant instructional design, as per the MHRD Revised Guidelines. The structure of each MOOC will have following components: Quadrant-I - (e-Tutorial) Shall contain Video and Audio Content in an organized form, Animation, Simulations, video demonstrations, Virtual Labs, etc, along with the transcription of the video. Quadrant-II - […]