Abstract: With open courseware (OCW), anyone can access any course at any place in any language via internet. It may become a powerful tool to support e-learning as well as traditional classroom based learning. OCW was started by MIT as open educational resources. OCW is now expanded to many countries of world like China, Japan, Indonesia and India as well. Countries run open course ware either by translating MIT’s course ware to their languages or by producing their own. NPTEL started it in India in engineering, science and humanities streams. MHRD also started production and distribution of open course wares in India under National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT) which can be accessed through Sakshat portal. The major objective of this study is to know the perception of students towards utilization of Open Courseware in institutions of higher learning. Keeping in mind this objective the investigator decided to survey students of higher learning institutions. The present study was survey in nature. The sample of the study comprised of 418 undergraduate and postgraduate students belonging to urban, semi-urban and rural areas. Findings concluded that student effectively utilized open courseware in terms of user-flexibility, choice-based access and content delivery.
Keywords: Open Courseware, open educational resources, students, higher learning institutions.
Title: Utilization of Open Courseware amongst Students of Higher Learning Institutions in India
Author: Dr. Narayan Patidar, Dr. Akhilesh Kumar Singh
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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