In recent years, the term Open Educational Resources (OER) has emerged, aiming to promote open access to digital educational resources that are available online for everyone at a global level. This panel presents views from different countries on the development of open educational resource initiatives. © 2012 IEEE.

Mangala S. Krishnan

Department Of Chemistry

DIGITAL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

GLOBAL LEVELS

LEARNING DESIGNS

Learning objects

Open access

OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

engineering education

IIT Madras is a public technical and research university located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Founded in 1959, it is recognised as an Institute of National Importance.

IIT Madras has been ranked as the top engineering institute in India for four years in a row by the National Institutional Ranking Framework of the MHRD

It currently offers undergraduate, postgraduate and research degrees across 16 disciplines in Engineering, Sciences, Humanities and Management. About 596 faculty belonging to science and engineering departments and centres of the Institute are engaged in teaching, research and industrial consultancy.

IIT Madras

The Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement: Free Learning for All Students

Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2012

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Fondation Hewlett)

Child Abuse Review

Female Genital Mutilation Awareness, CFAB, London, 2014. Available free: http://www.safeandsecureinfo.com/fgm_awareness/fgm_read_section1.html Female Genital Mutilation: Recognising and Preventing FGM, Home Office, London, 2014. Available free: http://www

Table 2. Number and type of higher education institutions in selected countries, 2012 or the most recent year available

Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning

Understanding Chinese-speaking open courseware users: a case study on user engagement in an open courseware portal in Taiwan (Opensource Opencourse Prototype System)

2012 IEEE Seventh International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technology in Education

Using IMS Learning Design to Author Authentic Learning Examples in Mobile Context

The Open Educational Resources (OER) movement: Free learning for all students

Journal	Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2012
Open Access	No