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Virtual Open Schooling: the Road Ahead for India

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Ramesh C. Sharma
Ramesh C. Sharma

The document discusses the development of open schooling and virtual schooling in India. It notes that open schooling was established to provide alternative education opportunities through distance learning mechanisms. Virtual schooling allows students to learn online through asynchronous and synchronous technologies. The document outlines a proposed model for a national consortium for open schooling that would develop online courses, a learning management system, and virtual classrooms. It discusses considerations for staffing, instruction, technology, training, quality assurance and other expenses needed to implement virtual open schooling in India.

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Virtual Open Schooling: the Road Ahead for India Ramesh C. Sharma 15 March 2013 International Conference Education for All: Role of Open Schooling National Institute of Open Schooling
After our Independence in 1947… • Concerns of The Government of India • To look for an alternative system of education (to the formal education) • Provisions in First Five Year Plan (1951-56) • Need to address the increasing demand for education.
What is being done… • Primary • Upper Primary • Secondary and • Higher Secondary • Different initiatives: UEE, USE, RMSA • Still measures inadequate
Mid Term Appraisal of the 11th Five Year Plan (2007-2012) • Strengthening 44,000 existing secondary schools • Opening 11,188 additional secondary schools (through up-gradation of upper primary schools) • Appointing 1,79,000 additional teachers and • Constructing 80,500 additional classrooms.
Open schooling • an alternative to the main stream educational channels • educational opportunities (courses and programmes) are provided at primary or secondary level • through distance education mechanisms
OPEN SCHOOLING IN INDIA • National Open School (NOS) established in 1989 and renamed as the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) in July 2002 • Open Schools (SOS) in 17 states of India, viz., Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Jammu &Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat and Bihar
ICTs and Open Schooling providing educational opportunities to large masses up to pre-degree level courses
Alternatives to… Exclusive face to face learning models • Internet - enabling learning anytime, anyplace • Online / Hybrid / Blended Learning Models
Virtual (or online) Schools Where students can learn and carry out tasks online as they would have done them in a regular classroom Empower students to learn at their own pace, time and place convenient to them
http://www.connectionsacademy.com/blog/posts/2010-11-29/Is-Using-an-Online-School-at-Home-Right-for-Me.aspx
ConnectionsAcademy https://www.facebook.com/ConnectionsAcademy
virtual schools model http://villagevirtual.blogspot.in/
Benefits of Virtual Schools • Personalized, tailored content: suited to individual learning • Flexibility: Anywhere Anytime access, students can enrich their skills in learning a new subject or take up a course or class normally not available at their schools • Lower costs: Saves on permanent infrastructure costs • Access to high quality education: Access to quality teachers and peers, increases collaboration
Skills they learned through a virtual school experience My fellow classmates, we’ve all made it through online high school. Along the way, we became independent and self- motivated students. Our teachers taught us how to write a research paper, apply the scientific method, and use the Pythagorean theorem. What I believe they taught us the most was to think creatively, have confidence in ourselves, be responsible individuals, have goals, and have the fortitude to achieve those goals. When our social studies teachers were teaching us about the past, they were opening our eyes to what our future could hold. - Aaron Ridenour, Graduation Speech, 2010 http://www.connectionsacademy.com/blog/posts.aspx?BlogTagID=c2e61174-ffa3-46eb-8144-6927317fceeb
Cases of virtual schools around the world
The African Virtual School To help students pass exams in West Africa . It does this by helping them revise using quizzes and videos online
The Korean Air & Correspondence High School Serves the nation’s youth and adults who couldn’t get a diploma because they were forced to work in the factories to support their families or because they could not afford to pay for high school (students pay to go to most high schools in Korea)
Open High School Turkey Three dimensional approach to learning materials: • Printed educational materials • Education through the media • Face-to-face teaching
Grampians Virtual School, Victoria, Australia Consortium of schools which provides virtual education in specific strands such as Physics, Psychology, Mathematical Methods, Chemistry and Physical Education, to remote students who can follow a face-to-face class in a school through video conferencing
Florida Virtual School, USA USA's first state-wide Internet-based public high school, offers more than 120 courses. Enrollment is free and open to public, private, and home school students in the state of Florida. Students outside Florida enroll on a tuition basis.
Open High School of Utah, USA Best examples of providing "one-to-one tutoring for every student in every subject". It is a tuition-free public charter school. The School does not charge any fee for attendance, other than some nominal fee at the beginning of the year.
Virtual School British Columbia, Canada The students have a variety of goals. Some want to complete high school. Others are graduates who want to satisfy the prerequisites for a college or university programme. Still others want to better their English skills before they move on.
Features of Virtual Schools • Facilitate individualised learning • Use innovative technology • Offer tailor made flexible curriculum • May be free or charging fee • Provide a variety of content material to the learners like textbooks, study guides, science kits, and electronic gadgets depending upon needs of curriculum • Flexible in allowing students to decide the study schedule as per their convenience and pace
Management of Virtual Schools Operations wise virtual schools may be: • State owned • College or university based, • Consortium based, • Public charter schools, • Local education agency based, • Private virtual schools, and • For-profit virtual schools etc.
Virtual Education
Emerging Trends In Technology Use In Education
New Education Systems
edX Free courses designed specifically for interactive study via the web, provided by MIT, Harvard and Berkeley. Udacity was born out of a Stanford University experiment in which Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig offered their "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" course online to anyone, for free. Over 160,000 students in more than 190 countries enrolled and not much later, Udacity Udacity was born.
21st Century Indian Learners • Net Generation • Digital Natives • Millennials • Multi-taskers
Internet Usage in India
A snapshot of digital India http://www.digitalstrategyconsulting.com/india/2012/05/a_snapshot_of_digital_india_12.php#more
Virtual Open Schooling: the Road Ahead for India
Virtual Open Schooling: the Road Ahead for India
Road ahead…
Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies Today’s knowledge revolution isn’t about how much information is available. It’s about how fast knowledge can travel through vast, connected networks of people—and how it can grow exponentially. Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies © 2012 EDUCAUSE
Aakash hopes to end the “digital divide” in education between the rich and poor http://www.springwise.com/education/india-internet-access-poorer-students-low-cost-tablet/
Transforming Lives Shaping the future…
Virtual Open Schooling: Indian Model Institutional Transformation Cognitive Transformation Technological Transformation Physical Transformation
Virtual Open Schooling An educational practice that provides opportunity to learners to study a formal school-based course online and gain credit for certification purpose. Learners can study using asynchronously or synchronously technologies.
National Consortium for Open Schooling (NCOS)
Virtual Open Schooling: Structural Model
Online Registration Online Wiki based Examination Open Courses VOS Platform Web Open Source Conferencing LMS (Moodle) (BigBlueButton)
Virtual Open Schooling: Support Services Image source: http://www.mindlogicx.com/mindspace.html
Virtual Open Schooling: Teaching Learning System
Virtual Open Schooling: Funding Mechanisms • Subsidised by NIOS • Fee Sharing • Each Member Open School contributes
Technologies: Instructional Delivery
Virtual Open Schooling: Course Development
Virtual Open Schooling: Assessment and Evaluation
Considerations… •Personnel •Instruction •Technology •Training for professional development •Quality assurance •Reporting / data analytics •Marketing •Other expenses (travel, health, insurance…)
Virtual Open Schooling: the Road Ahead for India

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Virtual Open Schooling: the Road Ahead for India

  • 1. Virtual Open Schooling: the Road Ahead for India Ramesh C. Sharma 15 March 2013 International Conference Education for All: Role of Open Schooling National Institute of Open Schooling
  • 2. After our Independence in 1947… • Concerns of The Government of India • To look for an alternative system of education (to the formal education) • Provisions in First Five Year Plan (1951-56) • Need to address the increasing demand for education.
  • 3. What is being done… • Primary • Upper Primary • Secondary and • Higher Secondary • Different initiatives: UEE, USE, RMSA • Still measures inadequate
  • 4. Mid Term Appraisal of the 11th Five Year Plan (2007-2012) • Strengthening 44,000 existing secondary schools • Opening 11,188 additional secondary schools (through up-gradation of upper primary schools) • Appointing 1,79,000 additional teachers and • Constructing 80,500 additional classrooms.
  • 5. Open schooling • an alternative to the main stream educational channels • educational opportunities (courses and programmes) are provided at primary or secondary level • through distance education mechanisms
  • 6. OPEN SCHOOLING IN INDIA • National Open School (NOS) established in 1989 and renamed as the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) in July 2002 • Open Schools (SOS) in 17 states of India, viz., Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Jammu &Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat and Bihar
  • 7. ICTs and Open Schooling providing educational opportunities to large masses up to pre-degree level courses
  • 8. Alternatives to… Exclusive face to face learning models • Internet - enabling learning anytime, anyplace • Online / Hybrid / Blended Learning Models
  • 9. Virtual (or online) Schools Where students can learn and carry out tasks online as they would have done them in a regular classroom Empower students to learn at their own pace, time and place convenient to them
  • 11. ConnectionsAcademy https://www.facebook.com/ConnectionsAcademy
  • 13. Benefits of Virtual Schools • Personalized, tailored content: suited to individual learning • Flexibility: Anywhere Anytime access, students can enrich their skills in learning a new subject or take up a course or class normally not available at their schools • Lower costs: Saves on permanent infrastructure costs • Access to high quality education: Access to quality teachers and peers, increases collaboration
  • 14. Skills they learned through a virtual school experience My fellow classmates, we’ve all made it through online high school. Along the way, we became independent and self- motivated students. Our teachers taught us how to write a research paper, apply the scientific method, and use the Pythagorean theorem. What I believe they taught us the most was to think creatively, have confidence in ourselves, be responsible individuals, have goals, and have the fortitude to achieve those goals. When our social studies teachers were teaching us about the past, they were opening our eyes to what our future could hold. - Aaron Ridenour, Graduation Speech, 2010 http://www.connectionsacademy.com/blog/posts.aspx?BlogTagID=c2e61174-ffa3-46eb-8144-6927317fceeb
  • 15. Cases of virtual schools around the world
  • 16. The African Virtual School To help students pass exams in West Africa . It does this by helping them revise using quizzes and videos online
  • 17. The Korean Air & Correspondence High School Serves the nation’s youth and adults who couldn’t get a diploma because they were forced to work in the factories to support their families or because they could not afford to pay for high school (students pay to go to most high schools in Korea)
  • 18. Open High School Turkey Three dimensional approach to learning materials: • Printed educational materials • Education through the media • Face-to-face teaching
  • 19. Grampians Virtual School, Victoria, Australia Consortium of schools which provides virtual education in specific strands such as Physics, Psychology, Mathematical Methods, Chemistry and Physical Education, to remote students who can follow a face-to-face class in a school through video conferencing
  • 20. Florida Virtual School, USA USA's first state-wide Internet-based public high school, offers more than 120 courses. Enrollment is free and open to public, private, and home school students in the state of Florida. Students outside Florida enroll on a tuition basis.
  • 21. Open High School of Utah, USA Best examples of providing "one-to-one tutoring for every student in every subject". It is a tuition-free public charter school. The School does not charge any fee for attendance, other than some nominal fee at the beginning of the year.
  • 22. Virtual School British Columbia, Canada The students have a variety of goals. Some want to complete high school. Others are graduates who want to satisfy the prerequisites for a college or university programme. Still others want to better their English skills before they move on.
  • 23. Features of Virtual Schools • Facilitate individualised learning • Use innovative technology • Offer tailor made flexible curriculum • May be free or charging fee • Provide a variety of content material to the learners like textbooks, study guides, science kits, and electronic gadgets depending upon needs of curriculum • Flexible in allowing students to decide the study schedule as per their convenience and pace
  • 24. Management of Virtual Schools Operations wise virtual schools may be: • State owned • College or university based, • Consortium based, • Public charter schools, • Local education agency based, • Private virtual schools, and • For-profit virtual schools etc.
  • 26. Emerging Trends In Technology Use In Education
  • 28. edX Free courses designed specifically for interactive study via the web, provided by MIT, Harvard and Berkeley. Udacity was born out of a Stanford University experiment in which Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig offered their "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" course online to anyone, for free. Over 160,000 students in more than 190 countries enrolled and not much later, Udacity Udacity was born.
  • 29. 21st Century Indian Learners • Net Generation • Digital Natives • Millennials • Multi-taskers
  • 31. A snapshot of digital India http://www.digitalstrategyconsulting.com/india/2012/05/a_snapshot_of_digital_india_12.php#more
  • 35. Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies Today’s knowledge revolution isn’t about how much information is available. It’s about how fast knowledge can travel through vast, connected networks of people—and how it can grow exponentially. Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies © 2012 EDUCAUSE
  • 36. Aakash hopes to end the “digital divide” in education between the rich and poor http://www.springwise.com/education/india-internet-access-poorer-students-low-cost-tablet/
  • 37. Transforming Lives Shaping the future…
  • 38. Virtual Open Schooling: Indian Model Institutional Transformation Cognitive Transformation Technological Transformation Physical Transformation
  • 39. Virtual Open Schooling An educational practice that provides opportunity to learners to study a formal school-based course online and gain credit for certification purpose. Learners can study using asynchronously or synchronously technologies.
  • 40. National Consortium for Open Schooling (NCOS)
  • 41. Virtual Open Schooling: Structural Model
  • 42. Online Registration Online Wiki based Examination Open Courses VOS Platform Web Open Source Conferencing LMS (Moodle) (BigBlueButton)
  • 43. Virtual Open Schooling: Support Services Image source: http://www.mindlogicx.com/mindspace.html
  • 45. Virtual Open Schooling: Funding Mechanisms • Subsidised by NIOS • Fee Sharing • Each Member Open School contributes
  • 47. Virtual Open Schooling: Course Development
  • 49. Considerations… •Personnel •Instruction •Technology •Training for professional development •Quality assurance •Reporting / data analytics •Marketing •Other expenses (travel, health, insurance…)