Induction Training Program, June 18th, 2018 to June 29th, 2018Ambar Jain, IISER Bhopal

Introduction to ICT in education

21st century literacies (skills)

✤ Develop proficiency and fluency with the tools of technology

✤ Build intentional cross-cultural connections and relationship with others so to pose and solve problems collaboratively and strengthen independent thought

✤ Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes

✤ Manage, analyse and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information

✤ Create, critique, analyze and evaluate multimedia texts

✤ Attend to ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments

A term coined by the The National Council of Teachers of English, US

source: http://www2.ncte.org/statement/21stcentdefinition/

Active, successful participants in the 21st century global society must be able to

Technology based pedagogies

✤ Blended Learning - combination of offline and online learning

✤ MOOCs - Massive Online Open Courses

✤ Flipped learning or flipped classroom

✤ Crowdsourced Learning

✤ Technology Enabled Adaptive Learning

not an exhaustive list

Blended Learning

✤ Direct interaction in classroom with instructor + online materials/activities

✤ Pre-class assignment using online tools followed by lecture

✤ Sharing and collaboration by students in activities is key for success

✤ Use a suitable learning management system or online assessment

✤ Use webinars, e-content, conference cals, live online sessions, videos, interactive media, social media: FB, blog, podcast, Twitter, YouTube, interactive whiteboards

Implementation

Blended Learning✤ Face-to-face driver: teacher drives instruction and augments with digital tools

✤ Rotation: students cycle through digital learning and in-class learning

✤ Flex: most content through digital platform, teachers for face-to-face consultation and support

✤ Labs: content delivered via digital platform in consistent location along with face-to-face interaction

✤ Self-blend: Student choose to enhance traditional learning with digital activities

✤ Online driver: entire course through digital platform with occasional need based teacher interaction

Models

Blended Learning Activity

Working as groups, list out the advantages and disadvantages of blended learning on the board next to you.

MOOCs

Poster by Mathieu Plourde. Source : Wikipedia

✤ xMOOCs are more traditional in their approach with video lectures and instructor centric

✤ cMOOCs are community oriented and build up with participation with peers learning through discussion and sharing

✤ Popular MOOC platforms: EdX, Khan Academy, Coursera, Udemy, Udacity etc.

✤ IIT Kanpur’s own MOOC toolkit: mooKIT — https://www.mookit.co

Flipped Learning✤ Inversion of conventional classroom approach: Swap classwork and homework

✤ Content delivery through mixed digital medium like video lectures, while hands-on sessions, problem solving and peer-to-peer collaboration happen in the classroom

✤ Very popular and highly researched pedagogy

✤ Can be integrated with other pedagogies

✤ Flipped learning + cooperative learning

✤ Flipped learning + gamification

✤ Flipped adaptive learning

✤ Flipped + peer instruction

Crowdsourced Learning✤ Crowdsourced Peer Assessment: peers pose problems and assess each others solutions

by taking roles of problem posers, evaluators of problem quality and problem solvers

✤ Subject-based networks with peer participation

✤ Forums such Quora and Stackexchange

✤ Wikipedia, Ted Talks, iTunes U etc.

✤ List of 100+ crowdsourced resources can be found here: https://medium.com/readers-writers-digest/crowdsourced-learning-because-education-goes-beyond-classrooms-42c8d4d646b2

Technology Enabled Adaptive Learning

✤ Layout and technology implements immersive, active-cooperative and adaptive pedagogies

✤ Requires specific space and infrastructure

✤ Implemented at IISER Bhopal as Studio AIR - a visit next week

MIT’s TEAL Classroom

Learning Management System (LMS)

✤ Definition: a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting, delivery and assessment of educational courses

✤ Deliver content to students, administer assessment and manage student records

✤ Aid in blended/hybrid learning, flipped classrooms

✤ Examples: Moodle, Blackboard, Google Classroom, Canvas, … many more

Academic Automation System

✤ Definition: a software application required for automation of academic system and management of student registration, student records and academic results

✤ Essential for smooth administration and integrated academic experience for students and faculty

✤ Shiksha: IISERB’s own academic automation and LMS — demo available on request

Cloud1 0 1 0

1 1 0 0…(computing/storage/service)✤ shared pool of configurable resources and services that can be easily provisioned over the

internet with minimal management

✤ sharing of resources makes it economical, centrally managed, lesser technical requirement at the user end, no infrastructure requirements at the client end, need-based scaling for clients

✤ many services and softwares are hosted in the cloud:

✤ Storage Clouds: Google drive, Dropbox, Box, iCloud Drive etc.

✤ Computing Clouds: Amazon Web Services, Google Compute Cloud, …

✤ Service Clouds: Google Mail, Google Classroom, cloud based LMS

Collaborative Tools✤ Cloud-based drives supporting collaboration (simultaneous editing of documents)

✤ Google drive, Dropbox, Box, iCloud Drive etc.

✤ Interactive whiteboards such as Jamboard (by Google), Liveboard app

✤ Collaboration note taking apps: Dropbox Paper, Evernote

✤ Collaborative tools helps students solve problem, brainstorm on ideas, work collectively and faster

✤ We will explore some of the collaborative tools in the activities today

Notes, Presentations Topics

Lightboard

Active-Cooperative Learning MOODLE

ICT based Assessment tools

Technology Enabled Adaptive Learning (TEAL)

Adaptive LearningFlipped Learning

Webinar

MOOCsOpenCourseWares (OCW)

Microlearning

Open source learning softwares

Open source e-content developmentCrowdsourced Learning

Google Classroom or any other LMSStackExchange for LearningSubject based networks

ACTIVITY

Online Learning

✤ Find a course on EdX.org or mooc.org that you are interested in and

it enhances your knowledge

✤ Find a set of NPTEL lectures that you can use for your course next

semester (flip a few lectures)

ACTIVITY

Google Resources for e-learning and management ACTIVITY

✤ Create a Google Form to collect course feedback from your students

✤ Explore Jamboard - an interactive white board by google

✤ Checkout Google Classroom, a LMS for managing your classroom