NSU Live: TheInstitutional Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) of first private university and the number one ranked private university of Bangladesh, North South University (NSU)organizeda webinar on ‘Open Educational Resources (OER) Policies' recently.

The webinar began with a welcome address by IQAC Director, Prof. Dr. Nazmun Nahar. Prof. Mostafa Azad Kamal, Treasurer and Dean of School of Business of Bangladesh Open University was the keynote speaker of the webinar. Prof. Azad gave a presentation on copyrights and paywalls: history, fundamentals and purpose of copyright, the way it works, exemptions and limitations of copyright, copyright law, defining open educational resources (OER), using and creating contents by using OER. There were few self quizzes between the presentations, in which all the audiences participated.

The webinar was well attended by a notable number of faculty members of NSU and faculty members from other universities. Among others, the two coordinators of IQAC, Dr. Muhammad Sabbir Rahman and Dr. Muhammad Sujauddin were also present in the webinar. There was a question and answer session towards the end of the webinar. The session was highly interactive and lively benefiting all the participants.

Dhaka, 9 November (campuslive24.com)//BSC