Vijay Kumar, in the most recent issue of Open Learning, discusses the development of OER in India. In particular, he tracks the initiatives of India’s National Knowledge Commission in creating infrastructure national online curriculum. From the article:
The transformation of India into a knowledge society will depend, to a large extent, on its capacity to provide and sustain knowledge citizens and knowledge workers. Yet the needs for education at all levels, including continuous education essential for skill upgrading and for equipping people, are largely unmet. For example, of 411 million potential students only 234 million enter school at all. Less than 20% reach high school, and less than 10% graduate. In the case of higher education, only 50 million out of India’s 1.1 billion people have degrees beyond high school.
