The growing demand for non-formal and continuing education and informal skills training in Bangladesh in the backdrop of ongoing rollout of ICT infrastructure have created unique scope to address huge demand through different delivery channels. Understanding the transformative potential of OER, CINED starts developing Open Educational Resources first time in DAM aiming to widen the access of need based quality materials.

Considering the growing necessity and demand, Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM) has developed an Open Educational Resource (OER) Policy for its educational and development institutions. Under this OER policy, a framework for DAM OER repository has also developed for the creation of OER and better management and sharing of its huge educational resources developed during the last six decades of its journey. Participants of the workshop also prepared a way forward plan.

In cooperation with the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), Centre for International Education and Development (CINED) of DAM has organized a two days workshop on the development of OER policy for DAM. 25 senior managers and heads of different DAM institutions attended in the workshop. The workshop was organized from 16 - 17 June 2019 at the auditorium of Dhaka Ahsania Mission head office.

DOAR, is Dhaka Ahsania Mission’s (DAM) online institutional Open Access Repository for learning resources and publications. The publications found here are licensed under Creative Commons BY 4.0 and can be freely downloaded for Retain, Reuse, Revise, Remix, and Redistribute with attribution to DAM. The open licenses will be used on the contents/materials where DAM will have theabsolute ownership of the copyright unless otherwise specified. All teaching and learningmaterials developed at DAM or created by a grantee or contractor receiving funds fromDAM shall be released with an appropriate open license and made available online, ineditable digital formats, to the public.DAM Centre for International Education and Development (CINED) is responsiblefor providing access, maintaining the repository and providing technical support.www.dam-oar.net

According to “National Students Assessment Report”-2015 of the DPE, 35% students of class III have deficiencies in reading as per national competencies. CINED in cooperation with USAID, World Vision, Australian Government and URC/GRN have developed 200 Decodable and Level e- books for grade I and II to address early grade reading difficulties of the students in Bangladesh. All 200 e- books were developed keeping uniformity with the national competencies of the government text books aiming to help early grade students to build fluency in reading.