NIOS organises silver jubilee lecture

Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Apr 1: The NIOS has been organising a series of lectures by eminent persons to celebrate its silver jubilee year. As a part of the endeavour, a lecture on “Reflecting an Open Educational Practices” was delivered today by Dr Som Naidu, Associate Professor  and Director of Learning and Teaching, Charles Sturt University, NSW, Australia, at NIESBUD, NOIDA.
Dr Kuldeep Agarwal, Director (Academic), NIOS welcomed the gathering and introduced the speaker.
Expalining the concept of ‘Open Learning’ which enables access to education, Dr Som Naidu spoke about big game changers in this area such as the rising phenomenon of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) which is transforming education, Open Educational Resources (OER) which provides teaching, learning and research materials in varied formats Open University which is a virtual collaboration of like-minded institutions creating flexible pathways for OER learners to gain formal academic credit, producing videos to reinvent education which are freely available on the web and Open Badges which are records of achievement signifying accomplishment such as completion of a project, mastering of a skill or marks of experience.
Dr S S Jena, Chairman, NIOS in his address, appreciated the fact quoted by Dr Naidu that ‘distance education gave birth to the instructional designer’ and hoped that a credible Open Schooling System would be built in the years to come, by using the big game changers.
U N Khaware, Secretary, NIOS, proposed a vote of thanks.

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