[Oer-community] OER MOVEMENT AND DISTANCE EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

[Dr.N.BALASUBRAMANIAN Narayanaswamy]

Dear Mary Lou,
Greetings.Thanks for your kind mail which indicates the closure of the 
discussion shortly. However, the points putforth by you  are really very 
impressive toelicit further response from the group.  It has been witnessed that 
the fire to learn and educate oneself is prevelent all over the world 
particulary in developing countries
which some times vblocked due to inadequate facilities.  However, such blocks 
could be overcome with the emergence of Open and Distance Education.  Trend has 
already been set up in developing countries that the practice of distance 
education has been gradually moving towards online learning. As such a day will 
come when the online education may replace open and distance education in the 
same way as how correspondence cour was replaced by distance and open learning. 
When we swith over to online learning, we may need e-learning materials for 
almost all the subjects all over the world.  Hence, it is high time that the 
Distance Education Institutions across the world may join hands with OER 
Movement and take joint responsibilities in developing the required materials 
besides arriving at a mutual understanding in sharing the materials and avoiding 
duplication of the work.  It is also possible that using the emerging machine 
translation software, materials could be easily translated into the target 
language.  Hope, my opion may be of some use in solving  one or two problems in 
hand.
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
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From: Mary Lou Forward <mlforward at ocwconsortium.org>
To: oer-community at athabascau.ca
Sent: Thu, 14 October, 2010 6:18:24 AM
Subject: [Oer-community] Wrapping up the conversation

Dear All, 

Thanks for the lively discussion over the past week. The dominant theme has been 
sustainability of the OER movement, primarily from an economic perspective, but 
also in light of different thoughts about how public/private sectors and market 
forces fit into the question of higher education. People have shared their 
beliefs as well as approaches to OER. Thanks to everyone who has contributed. We 
are going to leave this discussion group open for a couple more days, through 
Friday, for any additional questions or comments. We would certainly be happy to 
address any of the topics covered in our conference if you would like to 
investigate these more thoroughly. We're also happy to have off line discussions 
after this list closes if something comes to you later.


Since high level questions about OER are of strong interest to this group, I'd 
be interested in hearing where you would like to see OCW and OER going, putting 
aside the question of financial sustainability. Have your thoughts about the 
future of the movement changed over the past few years? What contributions do 
you see the movement making? Where should we be concentrating efforts for 
maximum impact? 



Mary Lou

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Mary Lou Forward
OpenCourseWare Consortium
www.ocwconsortium.org