CEMCA supporting Uttarakhand Open University (UOU), India for implementation of online education in the state of Uttarakhand, India

CEMCA supporting Uttarakhand Open University (UOU), India for implementation of online education in the state of Uttarakhand, India. To enable the ODL professionals capacity, CEMCA organised a three-day hands-on online workshop from 02-04 March, 2021 on MOODLE FOR TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS. This three-day workshop on Moodle aims at developing administrative skills on Moodle platform and online teaching and assessment skills using Moodle Learning Management System (LMS) for teachers and administrators. The objective of the Workshop: to adopt Moodle-Platform as an adjunct to face-to-face teaching and to teach in a full online or distance learning context; to understand the process of planning, designing and delivering online courses; to create better and active communication and collaboration with the students; to design contemporary assessment methods. 98 university teachers and technical administrators participated the workshop.

In this occasion CEMCA and UOU signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to contribute wider support to the knowledge society for learning for sustainable development with the presence of Professor Madhu Prahar, Director, CEMCA; Professor Om Prakash Singh Negi, Vice Chancellor, UOU; Mr. Dalip Kumar Tetri, AAF, CEMCA; Professor Durgesh Pant, Director School of CS&IT, UOU; Dr. Harish Singh Nayal, Registrar, UOU; Dr. Manas Ranjan Panigrahi, Senior Programme Officer, CEMCA; Dr. Jeetendra Pande, Associate Professor, UOU.

The workshop also leverages Moodle’s unique capacity to seamlessly bring together instructional materials, dynamic activities, social interaction, and student management functions. Following the best practices in designing a Moodle course, the participants will also incorporate strategies to accommodate multiple learning styles. They will also accommodate the emerging instructional technologies and provide a strategy for a wide variety of course modalities, including self-paced independent study, cohort-based courses with student-instructor interaction, and highly collaborative student-centered courses.