Correct Answer - Option 3 : E - Gyan Kosh
Open Educational Resources (OER)
- Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium, digital, or otherwise.
- It resides in the public domain or has been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation, and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.
- Open educational resources are freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes.
- OER gives a wide variety of materials from which to build a class without having to start from scratch.
- OER is important because it provides affordable material to students, allows faculty to enhance their own work, and provides faculty with content for classes.
E - Gyan Kosh
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e-Gyankosh is a national repository for storing the digital learning resources developed by Open and Distance Learning Institutions in the country.
- eGyanKosh is a national digital repository that preserves all the learning sources, with all the rights reserved by IGNOU.
Coursera
- Coursera is an American massive open online course provider founded in 2012 by Stanford University's computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller that offers massive open online courses, specializations, degrees, professional and master track courses.
Edse
- École Doctorale des Sciences de l'Environnement (French: Graduate School of Environmental Sciences). It is a France initiative.
Open tax
- OpenStax is a nonprofit educational technology initiative based at Rice University. Texas, U.S Since 2012,
- OpenStax has created peer-reviewed, openly-licensed textbooks, which are available in free digital formats and for a low cost in print.
Therefore, E - Gyan Kosh Open Educational Resources (OER) comes under the ambit of Indian Initiatives.
