E-content Generation and Delivery Management for Student Centric Learning

1. E-content Generation and Delivery Management for Student Centric Learning CONTROL NUMBER : DE- 07080910226 Dr DVLN Somayajulu Professor , PI and Institute Coordinator for NMEICT National Institute of Technology Warangal Email: somadvlns@gmail.com

2. Outline • Project Objectives • Action Taken Report • Current Status and milestones achieved • Budget Details • Academic Reviewer’s reports • DPR and plan for completion • What is learned from the Pilot project

3. Project Goal: • “The development of knowledge having the right content to take care of the aspirations and to address the personalized needs of the learners”. -NMEICT Mission document • Objective is to develop e-content for subject of learners and teachers

4. Project Objectives • E-content development for 24 courses in 8 disciplines. • Training of identified students and faculty • Creation of infrastructure for e-learning and design and deployment of web site.

5. Last SC meeting minutes – Action Taken Report • Course details for main phase were not given - Developers gave lecture plans for 24 courses . • Budget is more than NMEICT norms - Modified budget details to meet the norms of NMEICT and total cost for 24 courses is restricted to Rs 168 lakhs.

6. Last SC meeting minutes – Action Taken Report ( contd..) • Improvement of Audio and video quality and other issues handled related to pilot phase courses • Identified video lectures of pilot courses for re-recording. • Conducted Academic reviews. • Suggestions and issues raised by academic experts were consolidated for each course and instructed all the developers to incorporate the changes during main phase activity without any additional grant. • Software was redesigned to show all the lectures planned in pilot phase in four quadrant format. • Status report of project was sent for uploading into Sakshat portal by Email in June, 2011.

7. Current Status and Plan for completion ( contd..) • Pilot is almost completed and ready to initiate the main project. • Plan for Completion (18 months from approval date for main phase) • E-content design and development for 24 engineering courses and customization of online content delivery platform for flexible learning in four quadrant model. • Setting up of the environment (studio) for e-Content generation. • Training students and faculty

8. What is learned from the Pilot project • Issues for student centric learning • How to make students participate actively and interactively • How to make students own and be responsible for learning • How to reach students with differing abilities • How to promote self-evaluation by students • How to stimulate and sustain student interest in the subject

9. Students from rural background normally have: • Poor basic skills esp. Comprehension • Slow absorption of concepts • Inability to get doubts clarified in a class room • Absence of competitive spirit • Minimal understanding of evaluation rubrics

10. Proof of Concept - 4Q Approach • First Quadrant: Video lecture, multiple entry points, lecture notes, • Second Quadrant: Slides, Gist of lecture, name Concepts, quality, Five doubts, questions. • Third Quadrant: Graded self assessment test, assignments (minimum 3 for each lecture), Discussion thread, • Fourth Quadrant: web links, list of references, case studies, Historical development

11. Feedback used in Continual Development • From Students • From Faculty • Academic reviewers • Monitoring committees - Internal - External

12. Approach followed • (Content Development ) – used Four Quadrant approach • Class room tested e-content • Graded Questions • Assignments • (Delivery Mechanism) • Updatable content on the web • Web interaction for learners and peers • Also available in CD form • User manual version 1 is ready

13. Budget Details – Pilot (in Rs)

14. Budget for Main phase

15. Lessons Learned • Recording is done after incorporating the student feedback, which improved the content qualitatively and quantitatively • The very process enthused the students to ask deeper questions and help generate quality oriented questions • It influenced the three developers in a way that changed their established way of teaching the subject

16. Parameters Suggested • Admin. Support – internal and external • Timelines and adherence to – mostly followed • Clarity on deliverables – provided • Transparency and openness – followed • Quality parameters adopted – Academic reviews completed • Dynamics of peer group – students and faculty • Difficulties faced so far – lack of infrastructure initially and place is ready for set up the environment, equipment still to procure, etc. • Progress made so far – almost completed and review is in progress

21. On-going NMEICT activities at NITW Pedagogy Research Project – Pilot work completed for 17 courses. Remote centre for conducting NMEICT workshops in association with IIT, Bombay. Participating Interactive sessions with A-view.

22. Workshops and interactive sessions conducted at NITW • Regional centre for conducting NMEICT workshops in remote mode in association with IIT, Bombay • Organized two workshops in Summer and December 2010 and trained around 140 faculty on Computer programming and problem solving and Database Management System courses. • Organized one workshop recently by ECE dept in association with IITB. • Organized four interactive sessions using A View.

23. Thank You