New Delhi: Acharya Narendra Dev College, in collaboration with Gandhi Bhavan, Delhi University (DU) and with support from the Commonwealth of Learning (Vancouver), will conduct a workshop on "Open Educational Resources" on October 3, 4 and 6, 2008 (9:30 am to 4:30 pm) at its Web Facilitation Centre.

The workshop, named 'WikiEd 2008', is meant for faculty members and students of the varsity and anyone else who wants to learn.

Scheduled immediately after Gandhi Jayanti (October 2nd), the workshop is in consonance with Mahatma Gandhi's ideals espousing learning for creation of free, open and universal access to educational resources.

An official from the varsity said, "Open Distance Learning (ODL) has become a way of expanding the outreach of educational institutions worldwide, and it has therefore become important to evaluate innovative modern technologies that support educators to develop online content. The content has to be available to the learners for use wherever they might be. Developing online learning content being a step in the right direction, it is equally important to have a backbone of an open platform where content can be peer-reviewed and refined by communities of experts."

"Online content also has to be accessible enough to encourage one to collaborate and work together. WikiEducator is an ideal platform in line with the above and this workshop envisages imparting Wiki enabled skills to develop open educational content", the official added.