Brainstorming on Development of Framework and Guidelines for Quality eContent Development
New Delhi, 12 June, 2019: CEMCA and Centre for Educational Technology, IIT Kharagpur developing a set of guidelines, which will be used to prepare quality eContent for different type of courses. This meeting was conducted on 10th, June 2019 at CET Seminar Room, Centre for Educational Technology, IIT Kharagpur with an objective to receive significant suggestions on the draft guideline. Eight following experts working in this area were participated in the brainstorming meeting:
1. Prof. Rajib Mall, Centre for Educational technology, IIT Kharagpur
2. Dr. Manas Ranjan Panigrahi, CEMCA
3. Prof. Jayanta Mukhopadhyay, Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur
4. Prof. O.P Saha, Ocean Engineering & Naval Architecture, IIT Kharagpur
5. Prof. Siddhartha Mukhopadhyay, Electrical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur
6. Dr. Barnali Roy Choudhury, Netaji Subhash Open University
7. Dr. Somdev Chatterjee, SRFTI
8. Prof. Prabina Rajib, Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur
The morning session was started by Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat, CET. He greeted all the experts and invited Dr. Manas Ranjan Panigrahi, CEMCA to provide a brief introduction about the Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA).
Dr. Bani Bhattacharya, CET, presented draft guidelines for quality eContent development. Dr. Bhattacharya started the presentation by explaining the reasons why we need to embed eLearning in current teaching and learning process.
During the meeting, many feedbacks/comments were exchanged between/among participants. Prof. Jayanta Mukhopadhyay commented on scalability, which is one of major challenges an eContent faces. he suggested to not to commit any unrealistic thing to student community.
Prof. Siddhartha Mukhopadhyay suggested to build the content for peer learning or collaborative learning, such that learners can upload the problems or solution on the forum. He porposed to have a content overflow and to add a connection between the modules (at module level), so that scheduling could be happen. Dr. Barnali Roy Choudhury introduced everyone about the vocational training , lab based approach, i.e Blended Learning approach which has been used in NSOU. In her view, Learning analysis should be there which can be feedback system after every modules of course or at end of course.
Dr. Somdev Chatterjee queried about the learning materials and suggested to develop the eContent within three levels on interactions of teaching-learning. He listed the difficulties from his experience on eLearning. Some of those were, inability to drive student engagement, more involvemnet of ppts and teahcer-camera communication. Prof. Prabina Rajib asked about the classroom setup, and suggested that video lectures can be used as learning method.
