FDP101x Foundation Program in ICT for Education 2018

My Course Journal

FDP 101X

Foundation Program in ICT for Education by IIT

BOMBAYX

BY:

Prof. Akshay Shankar Agrawal

Assistant Professor

Dept. of Computer Engineering

Shivajirao S. Jondhle College of Engineering & Technology, Asangaon.

Grading Policy

There are six type of assessment activities - KQ, AQ, RQ, RCA, LA and SA.

The weight of these activities are

KQ - 30%, AQ - 10%, RQ - 10% and RCA - 15% (A combination of these will be given each

week)

LA - 10% (To be provided after Synchronous sessions)

SA - 25% (To be released in the final week)

WEEK-1

Moving from physical classroom to online classroom:-

Fig. 1: Subsections

In physical classroom, three major elements are required:

Fig. 2: Three important element of any physical classroom

The teacher utilizes various strategies and available tools like slides, common examples or

hand written notes to facilitate effective teaching-learning interactions between these

elements.

Students discussing among themselves is an example of a Learner-Learner interaction.

Reflection Spot (RS) –

List one example of the interactions among these three elements. Platform same concept is used but with few modifications. They primarily focus in imparting education through online courses and thus here: The teacher now becomes a facilitator who uses the various features available in the

learning platform but other two remains same.

The instructor-learner interaction and the learner-learner interaction are facilitated through discussion forums (Fig. 3).

Online teaching is learner centric program.

Fig. 3: Concept of imparting education

Learning Dialogues- LeD

1. Learning-by-Doing Activities or leds.

The importance of learning by doing activity is discussed. It was

addressed that why after every videos we were asked to do some practice problems. We were

also asked to pause the videos and write the answer to problem discussed in course journal.

2. Learning extension resources – LxT

They are advanced resources that help in going deep in a particular

content. Learning extension resource could be videos, it could be links to various web pages

or documents that are already available or it could even be research papers that have been

written about a particular pedagogy or a technology.

3. Learning experience Interactions –LxL

Consider the case of a physical classroom scenario where the teacher

inquires about the learners experiences on the content that was elaborated by the teacher and

then initiates a structured discussion in the classroom by the structured discussion is done by

asking a very focus question to all the learners and also suggesting specific points to be

discussed.

Now consider the case of online programs where we want learners to exchange their own

experiences. This is where the pedagogic feature of learning experience, interactions comes

into the picture. The learning experience interactions or lx is consisting of a focus discussion

having specific instructions on what to discuss and how to discuss, followed by a graded

reflection quiz.

In FDPs sharing of these experiences will have the added advantage of exposing each and

every one of you with the varying teaching learning contexts that are brought in by

participating faculty and thereby promoting collaboration. Both of these are essential to

improve your own understanding for providing better teaching-learning experiences for your

students.

Maintaining Course Journal It helps us in keep tracking the progress of the course and our understanding.

Learning extension Resource

The video posted by The Learning Techie gives a view on the history of technology in education

United Nations use of ICT in sustainable development goals.

TED talk about Massively Open Online Courses (MOOC) by Anant Agarwal gives us the idea of use online courses to impart education to the needy one who are not able to enroll to the physical course.

The video of Padmashree Dr. Deepak B Phatak's introduction video to learners of a faculty development Programme gave us the uses of ICT in improving the ways to impart knowledge to learners.

Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)

Mr. Anant Agarwal , the CEO of edX told us the importance of Massive Open Online Course

(MOOC). It provide short video lecture, quiz, discussion forum, sequences activity,

certification.

Learning technology idea:

Active learning.

Instant feedback turns teaching moment into learning outcome.

pure learning

Reimagine

Advantages:

Productivity increase

Knowledge is shared with everyone

Disadvantages:

No human touch

Absences of practical laboratory components

Discipline responses.

Week- 2

Web Presence for Teachers

1. What is the Internet? Whenever you want to use online tools for collaboration, you will need to have an email address. The email addresses are one form of your online presence. This presence will let you register in many other web services and sites for your own activities. For instance, it helps you create websites, blogs, wiki pages and social networks that extend your web presence. Now all these are possible only if you are connected to the Internet.

2. How the Internet works

The previous video highlighted the meaning of the Internet and gave you a general idea of its working. Today, we use the Internet almost every day in many applications. It could be in education (like what you are doing in this FDP programme), in the business where you make money transactions, pay bills and online shopping where you can purchase items from portals such as Amazon and Flipkart and in entertainment where you can watch videos, movies and stream live events. All these activities involve the transmission of information from one computer to the other.

Week 3 ( 26-03-2018 – 12-04-2018)

Creating your own Video resource

This week comprises of 2 main and 10 subsections explaining the idea for creation of own

video resources using ICT tools for blending teaching learning process. The course content

for week 3 is presented in Fig. 6:

1. Visual presentation 2. Creating a video open

education resource 3. Other screencasting software 4. Learning extention resource 3

5. Resource creation and

peer review

Graded Activities

1. Knowledge quiz 2 2. Reflection quiz 2 3. Assimilation quiz 2

4. Resource

creation

assignment 1 5. Lab Assignment 1

Checklists

Fig. 6: Week 3 Contents

Video Presentation Skills:

A presentation preparation should have the following process planning, execution and Impression.

Planning: Planning comprises of Brainstorming, Discussion and analyzing and organizing the content.

Execution: It comprises of Flow of presentation, outline, Bulletins and Graphic support.

Impression: Colour, font, theme, animations and visual appeal are used in this stage to make

presentation more attractive Reflection spot:

Assume that you are planning to create a slide with your subject content and uploaded it to

your WordPress website. You are creating this as an open educational resource (OER) so that

everyone can access and use it. What visual parameters will you take care of during your

slide design so that your website visitors find it easier to understand? Solutions:

Highlight the key concepts in different colours and font styles.

Instead of loading more text represent the text using SmartArt Graphic, for quantitative data, to use Bar / Pie charts.

Use animation effects and sound effects when preparing PPT slides.

Classification of graphics

Different types of graphics are shown in Fig. 7

Static and Motion graphics

Decorative graphic- to grab the

attention

Photoagraph graphic / screen

shot - realistic way depiction

Types of Graphics

Mnemonic graphic - visual

form of communication

Organisational graphic-

qualitative / quantitative

information

Transformational graphic –

build relatte stages

Interpretive graphic- explain process happening - line art format

Static Graphics (Images, Drawings etc)

Motion Graphics (Video, Simulation, animation etc)

Decorative Graphic – Used to attract the attention of the reader or the viewer.

Photograph – Image of real object.

Mnemonic Graphic – Idea/content in visual form.

Organizational Graphic – Example: Map tells qualitative relation between two entities.

For quantitative representation Graph, pie chart can be used.

Transformational graphic – Data change with time.

Interpretive graphic – structure depicts with line, arrows, colours etc

Slides with green dot at the top indicates there is a guidelines to follow

Reference: Clark and Lyons

Colours

For Better readability contrasts should be more. Title size should be greater than the content.

Grey title and black content indicate that it is for guidelines.

Black background is advisable with light colour texts.

Use of vivid or pale colours provide poor readability.

Most of the time bright colours like violet/pink may not give proper

visualappeal Typography:

o Emphasis

Bold

Italics

Underline

Change of colour

Mixing of above is not recommended, it creates confusion

o Two fonts maximum in presentation o Left alignment Grid: For aligning the content

Maximum 6 points in a slide

Each point should have maximum of 6 to 8 words

Use abbreviations and phrases for better readability

Font preferable is Sans Serif, Arial, Helvetica, Times New Roman, Palatino or Bodoni

Copyright free videos and images are to be used

Reference at the end of slide

Preferably prepare one-page hand out of the presentation in public addressing

Reflection Spot

If you know how to design visuals from the previous learning dialogue, what do you think are

the considerations you have to make when using fonts and colours in slide design? How

many font types, font sizes and colours will you use in the design of your slides?

Answer: When we use different font size, font style and colours definitely it will attract the attention of the users.

Choices of colours, font size and style depend on the content which we prepare.

CREATING A VIDEO OPEN EDUCATION RESOURCES CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSING

This video explained the creative commons, which is one way offers public license allows the

users to set the modifications of the content. It is also cleared that the different types of

creative commons licenses available and how to choose the creative commons license.

Creative commons licencing allows us to share our resources on the Internet publicly for

commercial purpose, non-commercial purpose and modification allowed / not allowed basis. SPOKEN TUTORIAL PROJECT

This section, Open Educational Resources (Khan Academy, NPTEL, OCW, edx) was explained by Prof. Kannan Moudgalya, Professor, IITBombay.

The URL,“spoken-tutorial.org. initiated by NMEICT teaches open source soft-wares which is licensed under Creative commons attribution sharealike.

Two Important things we have to do: Script and Record.

CREATING SPOKEN TUTORIALS Here, Prof. Kannan Moudgalya explained how to prepare the spoken tutorial videos using

software tools and – “Spoken Tutorial Technology”. The video elucidated how to create

spoken tutorial using soft wares like CamStudio, RecordMyDesktop, Kazam, OpenShot.

Steps: Script writing > admin check > novice and domain expert check > screen size, recording speed, font size > video recording > timed script (dub). OTHER SOFTWARES

This section listed the available Screencast softwares used to create our own OERs. General

Public License softwares are allowing the users to freely distribute and modify the original

content. But the following Non-GPL softwares are also used: Screencast-o-Matic

Techsmith Jing

Techsmith Camstatia

Quicktime

MULTIMEDIA PRINCIPLES Redundancy: People learn more from graphics than text.

Coherence: People learn more from multimedia

Spatial contiguity: People learn more from multimedia when the appropriate words

Interview With Prof. Richard E Mayer

How might we best design video to achieve its learning objectives in a higher

education setting?

Instructional method is important rather than methodology (ppt, video, animation etc)

Presentation simple and focus

Avoid details it may divert the learners (coherence principle)

Text and Image on same slide (contiguity principle)

Audio and text/image synchronization (temporal contiguity)

Complicated material breakdown to simple (segmenting principle)

What do teachers or lecturers need to know in order to be able to use video and/or multimedia effectively?

Objective

Good instructional

How should we produce video in order to increase the odds of it achieving its learning objectives for those who use it?

Collection of short videos

Focus learning objective

Personalization

PEER REVIEW PROCESS: WHAT, WHY AND HOW?

Common practice for building quality resources and is extensively used in scientific

publications as well as large crowd sourcing efforts. Best Practice for Peer Review:

Provide Clear Instructions

Explain Criteria to be used for peer review

Provide Training

Ask to provide detail comments

Reflection Spot

One advantage of the process of peer review for both the reviewer and the reviewee?

Answer:

For Reviewer: To gain experience and to improve expertise.

For Reviewee: To know the quality of work they done and what efforts to put to improve

quality of the work.

Phase of Peer Review Process

The phase of a peer review Process are: Submission Phase

Allocation Phase

Review Phase and