 Yeah, you missed that. Thank you. A very good afternoon to everybody and myself, Deepa Verma along with my colleague Rohan Gavankar are here to present our work. The title of our work is creation of canvas to paint the shades of openness in education and we were institution. At the outset I'd like to thank the only global confidence people to have been selected our paper and considering our topic. I know we did not get good reviews, good points for it, we'll try to make it probably the whichever way we can do it the better way. And so here we both are here to present a policy project that we intend to start at our institution and what are the triggers when we talk about the project why did we in the first place even think of taking this project up what we exactly want to solve here. Now when we talk about our institution before I start the triggers I'll just give a brief about our institution. The Exhibition of Amantakur Charitable Trust is an institution which caters to students from kindergarten to post graduation across various field of education. We have a student force of approximately 35,000 students, and we have five schools, a junior college, higher education institutions getting to engineering, pharmacy, architecture, MBA, applied arts, and any course that you think of our institution offers. But the intention of our presidency then did talk who was to cater to the underprivileged and the first generation learners because our area initially was a rural area catering to most of the tribals as well as adivasis also, but now it has become an urbanized place over the past 15 years. So the students strength has also increased. Still, the problem of developing quality content remains the same. So we want to solve initially for these 35,000 students that we cater to by coming out with quality content so that access to the quality content knowledge is acquired from our end to our students. Now the triggers again here are not only the students but the task force that we have, what we have. We have a task force of almost 1200 plus staff members that is teaching, as well as non teaching staff members why non teaching is also important yes because their help is definitely required when you try to develop your content in one way or the other. So our main trigger was to empower each and every one of the teaching as well as non teaching faculty so that their contribution can be taken care of, and this has helped us to actually develop a draft of our policy, which is definitely going to be implemented sooner. So, when I talk about Leshe Vishnu Mavantakur Charitable Trust, the idea of Shreya Tendraji Thakur, who is the president of our trust, is inculcated in teachers like me like Rohan all alike, and we want to first solve the issues at home like we always say is that charity always begins at home. So, this institution is home for us and we wanted to solve the problems pertaining to our institution first, and then probably ensure that the model that we come out with this model of policy framing that we come out with can be duplicated or can be replicated by the other neighboring institutions as well. Once it becomes successfully adopted by us. So these are the triggers for us. How we got involved in this open educational movement now why now back then when I talk about how we got involved I'm talking with respect to Rohan and myself first. We hadn't heard about what is open educational resource or what is open education all about because having been a part of the traditional system of teaching learning process. Open education was something that we had never heard about until 2018 when we got an opportunity to be a part of a workshop at SNDT under the able guidance of Dr. Jaish Shinde and Dr. Vasuda Kamat. That's how our involvement with open education resources started and then you know, we thought that why not try to utilize our expertise and expertise of people alike in, you know, channelizing developing content. It is a slow and steady process I can I will not say that we have been able to achieve it into 100% but yes, we are surely nearing there. And then the second incentive of involvement was through open education for better world mentoring program where in me and Rohan we both got involved as developers, and we both individually developed a MOOC. Our MOOCs were not related to the topics that we teach. It was those MOOCs were general MOOCs which could be used across anybody across the globe. And the involvement with OE for BW continued in 2020 and 21 as we will continue and it ensured that once we got exposure. We have actually channelized many others from our institution from neighboring institutions to join this movement of open education and mentoring program as well. And then the third involvement was through the Warsaw Poland activity which was an open education policy forum. So, it was like a slow gradual process first we knew about what are open educational resources, then we went on developing open educational resources ourselves. And then we gradually move past in understanding how can we come out with policy framing for open education promotion of open education for supporting open education movement. So this is how me and Rohan got involved with the open education scenario. And I think I would want Rohan to take further from here. Rohan, you can just carry on with the significance of the project sir. Thank you Deepa. Am I audible? Yes, you are. Yes, you are. Okay, a very big namaste from Rohan here and Deepa my colleague who is a friend for past 20 years and I would say this project is a dream project. As she rightly mentioned earlier that in terms of you know reviews we were actually scoring zero and that was a very, I mean, we really got upset and we just worked where we are really going to work upon. So if I want to put in the significance of this project before going into this I just ask everyone to ask one question to themselves that finally when we talk about openness in education when we talk about open educational resources or advocacy of open education. Can we ask ourselves one question that whom are we doing this for and everybody will narrow down to one single thing that it is for all the stakeholders. Maybe students, maybe teachers, maybe curriculum developers, maybe a common man. For me and Deepa to take this project ahead was an inspiration from a lot of our friends. If I can mention few of them stage wise I would really do it. First, I would like to mention my friends and our family, which me and Deepa always admire and get inspired is Gino, Fransman and Igor Lesko. It was Gino's presentation at OE4 Better World in Slovenia really made us think that we are doing this for students because primarily we both are teachers. We are academicians. We are teachers. Our one to one interaction is with students. So when we are planning for a policy, our management gave us a full freedom to develop a policy from bottom to top rather than going from top to bottom. So they said that experiment experience and then we'll develop a policy. So if I want to put it as a policy for my institution, I would just correct myself and Deepa here. We are no policymakers. We are academicians who are hardcore teachers who want the students to benefit the stakeholders to benefit. We want that our students should not only learn but they should be consumers of knowledge and they should create this. So this was a dream which was inspired in Slovenia by Gino Fransman's talk and Igor Lesko's constant motivation. So when we draw the significance of the project, when we went to Warsaw, it was the entire central foreign team like Alec, Carolina, Paul Stacey and Eba who really narrowed down to this project idea and went with a very huge idea for doing something. All of us are somewhere a teacher and when a teacher thinks something to do for their students, it's like they want to bring the entire world down. So we went with the same idea but we narrowed down to a project where we imbibe something which will result into capacity building of the faculty members working in our institution. So we wanted that we become as a model program or a model policy to not only our institutions in the beginning but also to our sister institutions which Dr. Deepa already mentioned earlier and maybe model to the institutions in our neighboring areas. So that was the scope we decided to really design for this particular project. In terms of resources, we always try for getting better resources for our alumni. I would not be surprised if all of us vouch together, you know, when there is a good teacher, a good teacher will be always into search of resources like it's like digging the mine. Okay, and that's the reason we wanted to develop quality content, which will be not only useful for the students in other institutions but students across the globe. If you could really make a contribution of a drop in the entire ocean, I guess we are serving the purpose what we are actually made for. So in terms of resources, we wanted to develop quality content and repositories which will be, you know, access across the world and maybe every learner or maybe any stakeholder or somebody who just want to go through a particular topic. So that was the whole idea in terms of resources. In terms of time, now this is an ongoing project because many of us, there are stalwarts in this forum who are policy developers and experience and making policies. But as I said earlier, as well, me and Deepa are no policy makers. We are teachers. At the end of the day, we call ourselves as maybe from teachers we have promoted to something called facilitators. This project is going to be an ongoing process. This is going to be held by many people around. We have come across a lot of like-minded people and I would like Alan to have given us time again during the forum at Warsaw. So it's a program which will be eventually progressing. So that's why in the title we put it as canvassing the sketch to have a roadmap for developing this kind of resources. Ma'am, can you go to the next slide please? Yeah. As me and Deepa, we have been not only friends, colleagues, but we are also involved in building a team because no good work comes only with individual or maybe couple of people. It's a good team. So this is our team working back-end in Viva who are actually promoting the formation of the policy process by conducting workshops and training programs. We were fortunate enough to have training programs by our friend, Mr. Gino Fransman and Igor Lesko. We could connect with Dr. Deepa's constant emailing to Jenreen from the US who works with Creative Commons and she was nice enough and kind enough to aware our institutional teachers, faculty members to have a mindset change because if you want to implement something, if you want the policy to be successful, you need to change your mind. And to change your mind you need to train your mind and she was very kind enough to accept Deepa's invitation and through the webinar in the period of lockdown. She actually brought in how licensing is carried out, how Creative Government licenses can be attributed. So a wonderful workshop by Jenreen and we are really thankful to her as well. So these are our team members you can see on the screen. Many of them have come forward and they have also presented in the Open Education for Better World in 2020 at the event in Slovenia. Including me and Deepa. During Poland and in Slovenia we met one of, a gem of a person, Mr. Spencer Elise, who is from the US and constantly he motivates us to really put this policy in place. I now request Dr. Deepa to take the presentation ahead. Dr. Deepa. When it comes to the methods and the activities, not talking much right now, I'll just move forward with the slide. This is actually how we went ahead with. Sorry for the overlapping of the words. The phase one, as Rohan mentioned about the webinar conducted by Jenreen, we had the webinar by Gino as well as Igor. Anna Purna Maduri, who's a dearest friend of me and Rohan, both of us. So all these people have actually helped our staff members first to understand what exactly is open education is all because as Rohan rightly mentioned, we are hardcore academicians. So for us, whatever is limited to the syllabus is something that we have always looked upon. We have given a different viewpoint to our staff members of looking beyond the curriculum, beyond that rigidity of the syllabus and to ensure that open educational resources can definitely make a difference in their daily teaching learning process. And then once that was done once the staff members were sensitized about these different attributes of open educational material movement, then we conducted training sessions, hands on training, or teaching the staff members has to how to create content using various softwares, you know, there are smaller smaller softwares which can help in developing good content. So three staff members have created a substantial amount of content. And then we move towards phase four that is developing a repository. Now the repository is officially to be launched online so that everybody and anybody can access, but it is for private access by the institution and the institutional members. And yes, the rough draft draft of policy has been framed. It has been offered to the management for their final approval as Rohan said that the management believes in bottom to top approach rather than from top to bottom approach. So this is the project timeline we have reached the fifth phase, and it's almost done by us. So what has been achieved. Highlight one when I talk about yes the status of the project is we have imparted training to all teachers across the system institution that is the task force of 800 900 plus teaching staff members has been achieved already. More than 300 plus quality content has already been created but now this quality content has been created pertaining strictly to the syllabus that is being offered by the teachers. And we are asking teachers to move beyond the syllabus as well. So we have been able to develop that kind of thing so repository is already in process. So highlight number three of the entire project is that the rough policy has been framed, and we're just waiting for the management to approve it, so that it can be implemented across all the system institutions of our charitable trust. So this is where we have reached. And I guess when I just have to sum up the entire presentation is like, as JK Rowling has said with it we do not need magic to change the world because we all carry the power inside ourselves, and we have the power to imagine So our team believes in this, that all of us are capable of doing good things, greater things, and bring a change, make a change and contribute towards the open educational, open education movement and become open education influencers. And I put it across Geno's words, be an open educational influencer. So I hope our presentation has been able to convey the meaning of our project and I stop over here. Thank you so much. So, thank you. You are just the right time. So anybody else on the field that wants to ask anything. There were a lot of people saying that you have some multiple jobs. And I think our clients are almost up. So we'll begin this presentation a little bit earlier. 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