• Sandeep Sharma

Background: Multicultural diversities get integrated through unified education and objectives (Banks, 1997; Gollnick and Chinn, 1998). International Centre for Distance Education and Open Learning (ICDEOL), Himachal Pradesh University, India, already conscious of these diversities, unifies them with its intellectually and carefully crafted Self Learning Material (SLM) meant for distance learners. But as of now, the university has not posted these SLMs as Open Educational Resources (OERs) (such as open-source/online text books). These lessons are published by a press and then sent through the post to the learner’s address. It is a point worth mentioning here that there is no mechanism or policy in India which directs these universities to work collectively for quality course generation and student-centric framework.

Open education resources, distance education, ICDEOL, SLM, OER, DE.

"FROM POSTAL MODE TO OER: FIRST EXPERIENCES, CITATION ADVANTAGE AND LESSONS LEARNT IN DISTRIBUTING SELF LEARNING MATERIAL (SLM) ON ACEDEMIA.EDU", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 9, page no.523-529, September-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1912067.pdf

"FROM POSTAL MODE TO OER: FIRST EXPERIENCES, CITATION ADVANTAGE AND LESSONS LEARNT IN DISTRIBUTING SELF LEARNING MATERIAL (SLM) ON ACEDEMIA.EDU", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 9, page no. pp523-529, September-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1912067.pdf