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[Dr.N.BALASUBRAMANIAN Narayanaswamy]

Dear Dr.Sudhakar Agarkar,
Greetings.  Thank you very much for having shared your experience in the 
Foprum.  I am also agreeing with you that we still have a long way to go in the 
OER movement. We are still clinging to the idea of copyrighted and peer reviewed 
material. Again, I agree with you that  we need to move from sharing to learn to 
learning to share.
I am happy to know that in India you are  engaged in developing open educational 
resources for schools focusing on all three stakeholders namely students, 
teachers and parents. I can easily understand your  difficulty  in  getting  
suitable material for your  project. As you stated that there are only a few 
persons who are ready to share their manuscripts,it may very difficult to go 
ahead with such projects in developing countries.  It is obvious that in 
developing countries, a  large majority are concerned with the copyright and the 
honorarium that they would get.  However, it is people like you who alone be 
ventureous in making such projects workable.  I wish you best of luck in your 
venture.  .
Thanking you,
Sincerely yours,
Dr.N.BALASUBRAMANIAN
Prof. and Head
Dept. of Education
School of Distance Education
Bharathiar University
COIMBATORE 641 046
Taml Nadu, INDIA
09443703756