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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