Open Courseware initiatives in India

The revolution in Information and Communication Technology has bridged knowledge gap by providing free flow of information.  It has provided wider opportunities in archiving accessing digitizing and preserving the traditional knowledge. The open source software movements added weightage in the proliferation of digital libraries worldwide. This module elaborates on initiatives taken towards open courseware in India.

Material Type: Module

Author: AVIJIT DUTTA

MVCC Libraries at Mohawk Valley Community College

Open Educational Resources (OER) OERs are openly licensed materials that are useful for instructors and students. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, and other materials used to support access to knowledge. Overview of Open Educational Resources OER Textbooks Used at MVCC OER Textbook Collections Open Courses OER Images Other OER materials Copyright and Creative Commons Research on OER OER by Discipline Art & Music Business Criminal Justice Developmental Reading & Writing English History Math Political Science Psychology Science Sociology Technology Anatomy & Physiology Lumen Learning A&P open course Anatomy & Physiology - OpenStax WISC-Online Health Science Learning Objects Open Learning Initiative: A&P I & II Applied Science, Engineering AC Electrical Circuits Workbook Embedded Controllers Using C and Arduino Lab Manual 2e This lab manual introduces embedded controller systems using the Arduino hardware platform and the C programming language. It is intended for students in Electrical Engineering and Electrical Engineering Technology programs at the Associate and Baccalaureate levels. Embedded Controllers Using C and Arduino Textbook 2e Lab Manual for AC Electrical Circuits This is a laboratory manual covering AC electrical circuits, typically a first year course for students in an Electrical Engineering Technology program (AAS or BS). It begins with basic RL and RC circuits and progresses through phasors to AC series, parallel and series-parallel circuits. Includes exercises involving Superposition, Thevenin's Theorem, Maximum Power Transfer Theorem, and series and parallel resonance. Lab Manual for Computer Programming with Python and Multisim 3e Lab Manual for DC Electrical Circuits It begins with basic lab introduction and progresses through Ohm's Law to series, parallel and series-parallel circuits. Includes exercises involving Superposition, Thevenin's Theorem, Mesh and Nodal Analysis, Maximum Power Transfer and concludes with an introduction to capacitors and inductors. Lab Manual for Operational Amplifiers & linear Integrated Circuits 3e Lab Manual for Semiconductor Devices: Theory and Application Operational Amplifiers and Linear Integrated Circuits Textbook 3e Topics include negative feedback, comparators, voltage amplifiers, summing and differencing amplifiers, high speed and high power devices, non-linear circuit applications, regulators, oscillators, integrators and differentiators, active filters and AD/DA conversion Semiconductor Devices: Theory and Application Textbook Wisc Online: Manufacturing & Engineering Learning Objects Biology Lumen Learning Open Biology I Lumen Learning Biology I Lab Manual Biology - OpenStax Concepts in Biology - OpenStax Biofundamentals - online course through the University of Colorado Intro to Biology lectures - MIT Khan Academy - Biology Phet Simulations PLOS Biology Publications Summer learning activity student example Summer learning activity rubric Summer learning activity student and instructor instructions WISC-Online Biology Learning Objects Chemistry The Basics of General, Organic and Biological Chemistry Chem 101 - Saylor ChemCollective Introductory Chemistry David W. Ball of Cleveland State University brings his new survey of general chemistry text, Introductory Chemistry. This book is intended for a one-semester introductory or preparatory chemistry course. Throughout the chapters, David presents two features that reinforce the theme of the textbook, that chemistry is everywhere. Khan Academy - Chemistry Lumen Learning Chemistry open course Lumen Learning Chemister Lab Manual OpenChemistry Lectures - UC Irvine OpenChemistry features a series of video lectures spanning courses including Preparation for General Chemistry, Organic, Physical, and Graduate level Chemistry among others. These videos are well organized with the topics covered in each listed beside their titles. Organic Chemistry - MIT Organic Chemistry - MIT Phet Simulations Principles of Chemical Science - MIT Lectures This course provides an introduction to the chemistry of biological, inorganic, and organic molecules. The emphasis is on basic principles of atomic and molecular electronic structure, thermodynamics, acid-base and redox equilibria, chemical kinetics, and catalysis. Thermodynamics and Chemistry Thermodynamics and Chemistry is designed primarily as a textbook for a one-semester course in classical chemical thermodynamics at the graduate or undergraduate level. It can also serve as a supplementary text and thermodynamics reference source. WISC-Online Chemitry Learning Objects Earth Sciences Lumen Learning Earth Sciences Courses include: Geology, Earth Science, & Geography Phet Simulations WISC-Online Earth Science Learning Objects Health and Nutrition Lifetime Fitness and Wellness - SUNY OER course Disease Prevention and Healthy Lifestyles Contemporary Healthy Issues Physics Khan Academy - Physics Intro to Mechanics - Saylor Intro to Electromagnetism - Saylor PH151 & PH152: General Physics Phet Simulations WISC Online Physics Learning Objects

Material Type: Assessment

Author: RAKAVI111

Libraries are for every one

Dear friends, the five laws of library science implies that, Libraries are for everyone, but in real practice, do I find the same thing?

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Mataprasad Mukhedkar

Library Employee Training

There are nine primary characteristics of what are considered the best library training programs. No one program fits every organization, but most training programs that are sucessful and show employees returning from them with marketable skills will have at least some of these qualities contained in them.1. Effective Management of the Training ProgramThe best programs will start with an individual who is the motivator behind the group. Irregardless of the title they hold, this is the person who organizes all the training sessions. The Training Librarian would be responsible for planning and executing all training innitiatives within the library system. the best person for the role would be someone who is innately curious, motivated, and have a vested interest in developing others' skills and to help them reach their potential within the library community. They must be committed to learning and want to help improve everyones skills, not just their own.In addition, the Training Librarian would have to market the program both internally and externally in order to make certain that people are aware of the opportunities that are available to them.2. Needs AssessmentThe Training Librarian would have to, periodically, perform an assessment of the organizational needs of both the employees and patrons/clients. Curiosity comes into play here. The Librarian must be interested enough in the past, present, AND future direction of the program to conduct a proper needs assessment through interviews, surveys, and research.Central to any training program is properly identifying the trining needs of each member of the community and on what topic(s). It is also imperative to remember that a "training need" is the gap between required performance and current performance.3. AlignmentOnce the Training Librarian identifies needs, then they must build a curriculum to address those needs based on supporting the library goals. This way, employees will understand why the training is occuring and managers will support the activity. After all, every activity needs a purpose.4. GoalsWhen the Training Librarian develops Goals for the program, they must make sure to look at the entire picture, including quality, quantity, time, cost, and effectiveness. They must develope a method for testing the progress towards the orginazational goals and ensure reports are easily readable for the needed information. It is best to schedule time to monitor and review progress toward the goals on a regular basis.5. Leadership ApprovalLeadership must be willing to approve of the program from the top down. Having leadership backing the program will reenforce the importance of a program and improve accountability while also assisting to establish expectations. the Training Librarian must always be ready to talk about how the program impacts the financial side of the library program when presenting new ideas as this will impact leadership approval.6. RelevancyThe training librarian must provide training content that is applicable in order to guarantee that the learners will return for more. Catering content to their needs is vital. Catering content to employee and client needs is vital so they can walk away from teh training with something that may be immediately applied.7. CreativityA creative hook is often something that gathers peoples' attention and deemed more valuable to an organization. Creativity can start as small as a theme, go as big as a new "Brand" for the training, or even become a library mascot. The level of fun and familiarity with creative ploys will continue to pull people to the training sessions just to see what is next.8. MarketingMarketing does not stop at the innitial launch of a program. It continues through ongoing efforts throughout the program to make it successful and is integral to making the development of a traing program a success. Any communicattion that is relayed to employees or clients should include an overvieview of the program and clear expectations while showing the individuals what is in it for them. Always remember to provide a why behind every part of the training. The ultimate goal is to increase the use of the training programs.9. ReinforcementIn order to overcome what is known as a "forgetting curve", it is imperative to offer employees and clients refreshers and additional training on new concepts. Without refresshing of their training, many employees will forget a majority of their training within a week. If employees receive refreshers, periodically, they will no only retain more of the information, they will most likely apply more of it to their everyday work habits.Kluczny, Shannon. "9 Characteristics of Top Employee Training Programs." BizLibrary. BizLibrary, 22 May 2017. Web. 07 June 2017. 

Material Type: Module

Author: Chad Kroll

List of open education resources online

A guide to free and open source education. Nearly every week, if not every day, there are more and more open source and open educational resources available and accessible to us. It's impossible to ignore. It also seems impossible to keep pace with the sheer volume. Despite this, I will attempt here to give a comprehensive listing of many helpful, accessible, amazing open education resources. (There will inevitably be some left out, but here goes!) To begin, it's good to understand that there are open resources for almost every age, grade, and subject: elementary, middle, and high school students higher, tertiary, and vocational education special needs and gifted students public or private school students homeschoolers or unschoolers parents, teachers, and administrators Where open education is being used Prime Minister David Cameron announced in February 2013 that more UK universities are joining Futurelearn, the UK's first provider of free, open online courses (with the British Library). In both the UK and US, there are hundreds or thousands of free, open online courses being used; increasingly we are seeing other countries, like Brazil and India, start to become heavy users and hotbeds for open source and open educational resources too. Unesco has advocated for the use of open source and open educational resources worldwide. And, in December 2012 a UN trade group said that governments should seize open source opportunities and become less reliant on large-scale software manufacturers. Why open source? All educators and administrators, and hey, students too, should read and pass along this short note on Why should open source software be used in schools? Information like this helps begin the process of understanding, gets people on board, and can make the difference between action and talking. Open education resources OSS Watch provides tips for selecting open source, or for procuring free or open software. SchoolForge and SourceForge are good places to find, create, and publish open software. SourceForge, for one, has millions of downloads each day. Open Source Education Foundation and Open Source Initiative, and other organization like these, help disseminate knowledge. Creative Commons has a number of open projects from Khan Academy to Curriki where teachers and parents can find educational materials for children or learn about Creative Commons licenses. Also, they recently launched the School of Open that offers courses on the meaning, application, and impact of "openness." Numerous open or open educational resource databases and search engines exist. Some examples include: OEDb: over 10,000 free courses from universities as well as reviews of colleges and rankings of college degree programs Open Tapestry: over 100,000 open licensed online learning resources for an academic and general audience OER Commons: over 40,000 open educational resources from elementary school through to higher education; many of the elementary, middle, and high school resources are aligned to the Common Core State Standards Open Content: a blog, definition, and game of open source as well as a friendly search engine for open educational resources from MIT, Stanford, and other universities with subject and description listings Academic Earth: over 1,500 video lectures from MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale JISC: Joint Information Systems Committee works on behalf of UK higher education and is involved in many open resources and open projects including digitizing British newspapers from 1620-1900! Other sources for open education resources Universities The University of Cambridge's guide on Open Educational Resources for Teacher Education (ORBIT) OpenLearn from Open University in the UK Global Unesco's searchable open database is a portal to worldwide courses and research initiatives African Virtual University (http://oer.avu.org/) has numerous modules on subjects in English, French, and Portuguese https://code.google.com/p/course-builder/ is Google's open source software that is designed to let anyone create online education courses Global Voices (http://globalvoicesonline.org/) is an international community of bloggers who report on blogs and citizen media from around the world, including on open source and open educational resources Individuals (which include OERs) Librarian Chick: everything from books to quizzes and videos here, includes directories on open source and open educational resources K-12 Tech Tools: OERs, from art to special education Web 2.0: Cool Tools for Schools: audio and video tools Web 2.0 Guru: animation and various collections of free open source software Livebinders: search, create, or organize digital information binders by age, grade, or subject (why re-invent the wheel?) Legal help New Media Rights is trying to help digital creators use public domain or open materials legally. They have guides on how to use free and open software materials in various fields. Free, non-profit resources WatchKnowLearn and Good Sites for Kids are examples of non-profit organizations that operate in an open way, but are technically not open source. Keep an eye out for them as well to help you along the open education way.

Material Type: Assessment

Author: RAKAVI

Open Source Software

From last 2 decades the acceptance of ICT in every aspect of operations that facilitates the information organization and dissemination of information. Now a days the ICT tools like Open source Software very much popular in the data management and data organization, hence the Open source Software are the alternatives to most of the commercial software. All around the world due to The emergence of OSS no. of organization. offices and libraries etc. adopts OSS for their daily work. OSS has introduced a lot of new concept of managing the library and change the way in library daily operations. Open Source Software has become increasingly popular all around the world every year no. of software user migrate from proprietary software to open source software due to cost and functionality of the OSS.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: INNOVATION PEI

Listen Up!

This activity deals with the concept of rhyming. This concept is not immediately understood by most students and needs to be explained first with ample examples. The activity consists of groups of 3 words two of which rhyme and one doesn't. Students read the words or listen to the instructor and select the word that doesn't rhyme. They are then directed to pick a specific letter from the "wrong" word and write it in a separate column. After completing the assignment students unscramble the letters trying to form a meaningful expression related to listening which in this case is "I'm all ears".

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Game, Interactive

Author: not stated

SElF RELIANCE - TVKGAC

Overview Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Alagan Chandran

Macroeconomics

This coursework gives description on concepts of macroeconomics topics like economic science, economic problem, demand and supply, mixed capitalism, national income accounting, business cycle, classical keynesian theory, fiscal policy, money, federal reserve system, monetary policy, supply side economics, economic growth etc.

Material Type: Lecture Notes, Lesson, Reading

Author: John Petroff

Angles

This url lesson will teach you about various components of anglrs

Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Homework/Assignment, Lesson, Lesson Plan, Module, Reading, Student Guide, Syllabus

Author: Sweta Khakhariya

Adjacent Angles

An interactive applet and associated web page that show the concept of adjacent angles (two angles that share a common leg). The applet shows three line segments with a common endpoint. The user can move the center one and see that the angles on both sides (the adjacent angles) of it are affected. Applet can be enlarged to full screen size for use with a classroom projector. After use in the classroom, students can access it again from any web browser at home or in the library with no login required. This resource is a component of the Math Open Reference Interactive Geometry textbook project at http://www.mathopenref.com.

Material Type: Reading, Simulation

Author: John Page

Introduction to Mechanical Engineering Design

Short Description: A collection of readings and exercises aligned with the course, ME 270, Introduction to Mechanical Engineering Design, at Iowa State University. This course provides an overview of mechanical engineering design with applications to thermal and mechanical systems, and an introduction to current design practices used in industry. As part of the course design, learners will complete a semester-long team project focused on addressing societal needs. Long Description: A collection of readings and exercises aligned with the course, ME 270, Introduction to Mechanical Engineering Design, at Iowa State University. This course provides an overview of mechanical engineering design with applications to thermal and mechanical systems, and an introduction to current design practices used in industry. As part of the course design, learners will complete a semester-long team project focused on addressing societal needs. Word Count: 19507 Included H5P activities: 71 (Note: This resource's metadata has been created automatically by reformatting and/or combining the information that the author initially provided as part of a bulk import process.)

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Iowa State University, Jacqulyn A. Baughman

Essential Mechanics - Statics and Strength of Materials with MATLAB and Octave

Essential Mechanics - Statics and Strength of Materials with MATLAB and Octave P. Venkataraman Essential Mechanics - Statics and Strength of Materials with MATLAB and Octave combines two core engineering science courses - “Statics” and “Strength of Materials” - in mechanical, civil, and aerospace engineering. It weaves together various essential topics from Statics and Strength of Materials to allow discussing structural design from the very beginning. The traditional content of these courses are reordered to make it convenient to cover rigid body equilibrium and extend it to deformable body mechanics.The e-book covers the most useful topics from both courses with computational support through MATLAB/Octave. The traditional approach for engineering content is emphasized and is rigorously supported through graphics and analysis. Prior knowledge of MATLAB is not necessary. Instructions for its use in context is provided and explained. It takes advantage of the numerical, symbolic, and graphical capability of MATLAB for effective problem solving. This computational ability provides a natural procedure for What if? exploration that is important for design. The book also emphasizes graphics to understand, learn, and explore design. The idea for this book, the organization, and the flow of content is original and new. The integration of computation, and the marriage of analytical and computational skills is a new valuable experience provided by this e-book. Most importantly the book is very interactive with respect to the code as it appears along with the analysis.

Material Type: Full Course, Interactive, Lecture Notes, Simulation, Textbook

Author: P Venkataraman

Mechanics Map Open Mechanics Textbook

Open textbook in statics and dynamics for engineering undergraduates. Covers particles and rigid bodies (extended bodies), structures (trusses), simple machines, kinematics, and kinetics, as well as introductory vibrations. Includes text, videos, images, and worked examples (written and video).

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Agnes d'Entremont, Douglas Miller, Jacob Moore, Joan Kowalski, Majod Chatsaz

The Power of Mechanical Advantage

Students learn about the mechanical advantage offered by pulleys in an interactive and game-like manner. By virtue of the activity's mechatronic presentation, they learn to study a mechanical system not as a static image, but rather as a dynamic system that is under their control. Using a LEGO® MINDSTORMS® robotics platform and common hardware items, students build a mechanized elevator system. The ability to control different parameters (such as motor power, testing load and pulley arrangement) enables the teacher, as well as the students, to emphasize and reinforce particular aspects/effects of mechanical advantage.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Carlo Yuvienco, Janet Yowell

Methods of Teaching Grammar

 To know the meaning of grammar To understand the steps of preparing a lesson plan for grammar To comprehend the types of grammar and methods of teaching grammar To apply inductive and deductive methods in teaching of grammar To develop interest in teaching grammar To develop positive attitude towards language teaching

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Author: Mahalakshmi N

1.1: Introduction to Microbiology

Microorganisms are the dominant life forms on earth, are found in almost every conceivable environment, and are essential to sustaining life on this planet.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

MUSHROOM CULTIVATION TECHNOLOGY

Mushroom Cultivation Technology Course provides a detailed information on1. the types of different edible and poisonous mushrooms,2. mushrooms available in India3. Cultivation technology of mushrooms4. storage &Utilization of Mushrooms5. Export value of mushrooms

Material Type: Full Course

Author: Salkapuram Sunitha

Edible mushroom

This web page gives detailed information on edible mushrooms under the following headings, Contents 1. Current culinary use 2.Commercially cultivated 3.Commercially harvested wild edibles 4.Other edible wild species 5.Conditionally-edible species 6. Nutrients 7.Vitamin D 8. Use in traditional medicine 9. Safety concerns 10. Production

Material Type: Reading

Authors: Chang, Chawhan, Shu-Ting; Phillip G. Miles, T. J.

Mushroom poisoning

This web page describes details of poisonous mushrooms under the headings like, 1.Signs and symptoms 2.Causes 3.Poisonous mushrooms 4.Prognosis and treatment 5.Society and culture 6.Folk traditions 7.Notable cases

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Authors: Ford, Korpela, Marsha; Kathleen A. Delaney; Louis Ling; Timothy Erickson, Niskanen A, Pyysalo H, right AV