Commonwealth Computer Navigator's Certificate (CCNC)

Coinciding with Software Freedom Day 2006 (16 September), Sir John Daniel, President and CEO of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), announced plans to institute the Commonwealth Computer Navigator's Certificate (CCNC). This COL initiative will widen access to ICT skills training using free software and will be distributed as free content for anyone to use, modify and distribute.

The Navigator's certificate will equip many prospective learners on their voyage to become full participants in our knowledge society. It will be closely associated with the Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth, whose creation COL is facilitating on behalf of 24 small states. "Free content is a new miracle in education" said Sir John. "We must dispel the myth that developing societies can't participate equally in virtual methods of educational design and delivery. We can do this by creating more opportunities to acquire the prerequisite ICT skills, thereby throwing a wide bridge across the digital divide".

The content development for the course is in progress. Indian WE community is encouraged to activiely participate in the content development process to complete the CCNC course development in the current year itself.

India Chapter of WikiEducator Inaugurated

The eminent agriculturist scientist and Honorable Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) Dr. M.S. Swaminathan(father of indian green revolution) has inaugurated the India Chapter of WikiEducator and launched the india page in various languages in the presence of Shri. Jainder Singh IAS, Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in a national event held at India International Centre on the 15th November 2008 at 2:30 p.m. The virtual presence (through Skype) and real sonorous voice of Dr.Wayne Mackinthosh, Education Specialist COL and the Founder of WikiEducator, set the wiki mood and collaborative mode of the programme. Dr. R. Sreedher, Director CEMCA has chaired the function. This function was organised by Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) in association with GKP, OWSA and Acharya Narendra Dev College. For Indian Wiki Educator community Dr. Savithri Singh email, Wikieducator Council member and Mr. P. Anil Prasad, WikiEducator Ambassador coordinated the event. Interim Advisory Board for the India Chapter members present were:

1. Dr. Savithri Singh, Principal, Acharya Narendra Dev College, University of Delhi, New Delhi.
2. Dr. Pankaj Khare, Director, International Division of Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India.
3. Dr. R. Sreedher, Director, Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia, New Delhi.
4. Dr. Gita Mathur, Reader in Botany, Gargi College, New Delhi.
5. Mr.Anil Prasad, Nodal Officer (Web), Finance Department, Govt. of Kerala.
   

For details of programme please see Wikieducator Launch.

Please visit Picture gallery to see more pictures taken at the event. And Website of CEMCA for a full Video recording.CEMCA

Face 2 face Workshop at CIET, NCERT, 29 June - 1 July 2009

The workshop is being conducted by Acharya Narendra Dev College for the faculty of NCERT.

eL4C On Line Workshops

Two online workshops on e-Learning and Developing Open Educational Resources are being facilitated by Nellie Deutsch and Dr. Gita Mathur. All are welcome to join. You will be sent an email with a tutorial everyday, it requires 30 minutes per day to do this. Can be done at your convenience any time of the day. Online help will solve any problem you face. There will be 10-day lessons with weekends off. The aim of these workshops is to reach those who are unable to participate in Face-to-face workshops, and also to provide a facility to the existing Wikieducators to further polish their skills.
Workshop EL4C26 May 4-15, 2009 REGISTER HERE

Workshop EL4C27 June 1-12,2009 REGISTER HERE
Course Layout, list of registered participants and all details are available for you at the links eL4C26 and eL4C27. If you feel confident, you can even start your page before the workshop starts. Happy Exploring.

How can u participate

Here you can use the existing content, review the content, collaborate with the development of content and start new Online Free and Open Distance Learning Projects. You can also share your existing ODL pages/projects, if you can make it free under Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License. The community also welcome you to be a part of community discussions on Wikied-India google group.

We would also appreciate if you can be a part of Team India to lead and direct this India Node on WikiEducator.

If you are new to Wikieducator, don't worry, there is online wikieducator tutorial to help you round the clock. WikiEducator online tutorial is a classical example for how online ODL lessons can be developed and arranged. Please visit the tutorial pages right now…

Indian WikiEducator Community

The Community members of WikiEducators in India are listed here.

WikiIndia Members

She was one of the very active contributors of Commonwealth Computer Navigators Course (CCNC), starting from February 2007. CCNC is an officially announced ODL development project on WikiEducator.

Now she is very actively engaged in contributing to Commonwealth Youth Programme Regional Centre for Africa CYP RCA space on WikiEducator.

Meet here WE's featured earlier...

Anubha Das wins UPE 7/2009

Dr Anubha Das, Assistant Professor of Zoology in Zakir Husain College, University of Delhi has been selected for the WikiEducator User Page Expo Award for July, 2009. Dr. Yanubha has become a member of WikiEducator community on 2nd March 2009.

The User Page Expo Award is a monthly feature to honour innovative user pages of the new members of WikiEducator community.
Dr. Dilip P. Barad was UPE Award Winner for March 2009.
Dr. Gita Mathur was UPE Award Winner for December 2008.
This is the Third UPE Award to WikiEducators from India out of the total 12 UPE Awarded so far. Cheers!

Interesting WikiEducator Stats for July 2009

The latest Monthly statistics indicate that out of the Top SIX Pages with Maximum Edits, FOUR are from India. Shows that the Indian WikiEducators Community is most active. Cheers!

WikiEducator-India members at a Linux Meet

See the Presentation Slides of "Gita-Promila Freed.in Talk" delivered on Feb.21, 2009, at a meet in JNU, New Delhi Presentation Slides‎. Also see the section 1.8 on page of Gita Mathur. The discussion included Gargi Faculty's experience with WikiEducator at the meet organised by Linux-Delhi Group.

Quality assurance of multimedia learning materials

To address quality concerns of multimedia learning materials, the Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) spearheaded an initiative to develop a framework for quality assurance in which is seconded by the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia. Over the past one year, two core groups, one each in India and Malaysia, comprising academics, practitioners and industry have been grappling with developing a framework. Periodically, through various stages of development, wider consultations have also been held in both countries. The draft framework is available through this link.

We are looking for feedback and inputs on the draft framework.

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