Training on "Blended Learning for Higher Education" at Bilaspur University

New Delhi, 08 September, 2018: Bilaspur University (BU), Bilaspur has organized two days training programme on “Blended Learning for Higher Education” on 1-2 September 2018 in collaboration with Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), New Delhi University organised two days workshop on e-Content development for faculties of Central University of Chhattisgarh, India. Fifty faculty members from different subjects participated in the programme. The training programme was planned in order to help the participants to understand the need and significance of blended learning, online content development, etc. in the context of higher education in India. Dr. Manas Ranjan Panigrahi, Programme Officer, CEMCA, New Delhi and Dr. Barnali Roy Choudhury, Netaji Subhash Open University, Kolkata facilitated the training programme.

The main topics like Conceptualisation of blended learning, UGC approved four quadrants approach for e-content development, reference management system using Mendeley and Zotero, Open educational Resources (OER) and OER licensing policies were presented and discussed in the meeting .  In the group activity, participants were divided in different groups and theyidentified hard topics in syllabus of UG courses in University. After identification of hard topics , each group prepared lecture on the topicOn Day- The development of video contents andwas handled by two faculty members who did this job for the first time. The edited videos were screened for self-evaluation and reviews by other participants. This hand-on activities encourged the participants to produce video contents on their own for the learners.. Prof. G.D. Sharma, Honb’le Vice Chancellor, Bilaspur University, addressed the participants and expressed his gratitude towards CEMCA to facilitate the workshop. Certificates of training programme were distributed to the participants. Programme was ended with formal vote of thanks by Mr. Jeetendra Kumar, convener of Training programme.