e-Guru Week on Online Courses at University of Hyderabad

New Delhi, 16th August, 2018: The e-Learning Centre of University of Hyderabad with the support of CEMCA, New Delhi has conducted a one-week workshop (e-Guru Week) during 16-24 July, 2018 on Online Courses. The centre has earlier conducted two capacity building workshops in December, 2017 and in April, 2018 under UoH-COL-CEMCA Project. Nearly 50 faculty members from different disciplines were trained in these workshops.

The present e-Guru Week was intended exclusively to train atleast 10 faculty members from each school. Thus, nearly 70 faculty members got trained in the workshop. The aim of the workshop was to introduce basic concepts of digital learning, designing online courses and also four quadrant approach. The activities of the workshop included hands on training on Moodle learning management system.  

Inaugurating the workshop, Prof. Apparao Podile, Vice-chancellor, UoH has welcomed the initiative of the e-Learning Centre and hoped that after the workshop more and more faculty will start using technology in their pedagogy. Prof. J. Prabhakar Rao, Director, e-Learning Centre welcomed the participants. Prof. J. Prabhakar Rao, Director of e-Learning Centre, Prof. Vasuki Belevadi, Deputy Director of e-Learning Centre, Prof. Atul Negi, School of Computer Science and Dr. Pammi Pavan Kumar, Assistant Director of e-Learning Centre were the resource persons. Dr. Pammi Pavan Kumar has also coordinated the workshop.