E-Learning: Issues Related to Content Designing and Standards

1. E-Learning: Issues Related to Content Designing and Standards Dr.Lalitha Poluru Librarian Institute of Pharmacy, Nirma University CALIBER 2013

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4. Why e-learning? • According to the attitudes of 21st Century Learners • Also teaching performance in the online environment is easily monitored, and course-by-course contracting creates Darwinian incentive to improve. CALIBER 2013

5. Impact of e-learning E-learning facilitates: • Collaborative learning • Integrative Learning • 24 X 7 Learning With an outcome of • Creative Learners with Self Study (paving way to healthy research and innovations) • Teachers as facilitators – with a role to educate not to teach CALIBER 2013

6. Major e-learning initiatives in India • National Task Force on Information Technology & Software • Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) CALIBER 2013

7. Major e-learning initiatives in India CALIBER 2013

8. Content Designing Comprises Four Components: • Context • Activity • Challenge and • Feedback CALIBER 2013

9. Content Designing Context • Build anticipation of outcomes • Make the context appealing • Using a strong storyline, perhaps with suspense, unusual, humour, or drama • Employing fascinating media with unusual perspectives, imagery sounds, and/or animation. • Providing imagery for concepts and/ or performance consequences CALIBER 2013

10. Content Designing Challenge • Put the learner at risk • Select the right content for each learner • Providing mnemonics or having learners develop their own • Demonstrating successful techniques • Allowing learners to do something they wouldn’t ordinarily be able to do and to undertake bigger and bigger challenges that require learners to apply more of their skills CALIBER 2013

11. Content Designing Activity Have the learner perform multi step tasks • Having learners express what they have learned through different channels • Providing sufficient practice that is spaced up to the point of matching the spacing that occurs on the job CALIBER 2013

12. Content Designing Feedback • Provide intrinsic feedback CALIBER 2013

13. Characters of Learning Objects • Reusability • Accessibility • Portability • Interoperability • Durability CALIBER 2013

14. Importance of Standards • Platform Free • Achieve interoperability between tools & systems for supporting • Portability • Reusability CALIBER 2013

15. Standards • International Standard Organization (ISO); • IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC); • European Centre of Normalization (CEN); • IMS (IMS Global Learning, Inc.); CALIBER 2013

16. Standards • Aviation Industry CBT Committee (AICC): • Alliance for Remote Instructional Authoring and Distribution Networks for Europe (ARIADNE); and • Advanced Distributed Learning CALIBER 2013

17. Standards • Tin Cap API is next generation SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) • with new capabilities: • Taking e-learning outside the web browser • E-learning in native mobile application • More control over learning content • Solid security using Oauth (open standard for • Authorization) • Ability to track games and simulations • Ability to track real world performances • Team based e-learning • Tracking learning plans & goals CALIBER 2013

18. Suggestions Establishment of Indian Council for Online learning as a statutory body to: • Develop a national distributed repository of learning objects • Maintain standard of online learning • Coordinate and promote online learning • Accreditation of online learning Portals for life long learning CALIBER 2013

19. Suggestions • Establishment of a “e-learning Consortium” including member educational institutions to offer e-learning programmes without duplicating efforts • Develop facilities for online training of teachers and administrators • Facilitate development of small learning objects by teachers -Sanjay Mishra CALIBER 2013

20. Current Trends • Sharing & Reusing the Learning Objects • Linking Learning Objects Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) CALIBER 2013

21. Current Trends - MOOC CALIBER 2013

22. Peter Ducker predicted that “Universities won’t survive….. as residential institutions” Quoted from the Guardian, April 13, 2004 CALIBER 2013

23. In future, we may be surprised to see certain ads: • ….. you can start your college degree now, taking online courses that will make you feel like you are on facebook instead of sitting in a classroom, listening to a lecture or reading a text book. • Your decision about when and where to study doesn’t have to be all-or-nothing, every semester you can choose whether you want to study at home or at college, you can also take any semester off for an internship or a vacation. • You can customize your courses to fit your preferred learning style; most of our courses come in three varieties: fully face to face, fully online, or a mix of the two, a ‘hybrid’ that meets less often that the traditional face-to-face course. -Christensen, C.M., & Eyring, H.J. (2011). Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside out. USA: Jossey-Bass. CALIBER 2013

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