About This Course

We are offering these Connected Open Online Learning (COOL) resources to enable student-teachers and teacher educators to stay connected to your learning. Please stay safe and use these COOL resources for teacher education and continue with your professional education during this COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period. You can use the url www.tissx.tiss.edu or the TISSx android app .

This COOL course will introduce participants to the principles of design to curate OERs around a topic of their choice suitable for student-teachers (BEd Courses).

After exploring these resources, the participants will be able to:

• explore the characteristics of an OER
• engage in the design thinking process to curate OERs and create teaching-learning events for teacher education
• learn how to prepare and maintain digital portfolios
• share the designed resources and implementation experiences and engage in peer discussions on TISSx platform.

Who can do this course?

Teacher educators and M.Ed. student-teachers can enroll for this course and access the resources for free.

The resources will cover the following:

TopicIntroduction to OERWhat is an OER?Framework for criteria to curate OERsReview OERsDesigning OERBroad principles of design (OERs) thinkingBasic Introduction to design toolsDesigning ThinkingDesign principles for creating events/activities around the use of OERsIterative process of design thinkingIntroduction to digital portfolio, toolsCurating OERDevelop/curate e-content (scaffolded event design) for e-teaching and learningCourse StaffDr. Mythili Ramchand, CEIAR, TISSDr. Gomathi Jatin, CEIAR, TISSDr. Sybil Thomas, Department of Education, University of MumbaiDr. Bijoy K Thomas, St. Xavier's Institute of Education, MumbaiBindu Thirumalai, CEIAR, TISSAnanya Chatterji, CEIAR, TISSAuthoring teamAnanya Chatterji, CEIAR, TISSSunil Kumar, CEIAR, TISSTISS-COOL is supported by Tata Institute of Social Sciences, and grants from the Tata Trusts and Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission for Teachers and Teaching.

Whom do I contact for further information?

Write in to cete.cep@tiss.ac.in

Connected Open Online Learning (COOL OER) by CETE TISS is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0