Workshop on Blended Learning organised for Teacher Educators of Odisha

Prof. Sanjay Nayak, Vice-Chancellor, Ravenshaw University has inaugurated Ravenshaw-CEMCA (Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia) collaborated Workshop series on “Implementation of Blended Learning in Teacher Education”. Launching workshop series -1 on ‘Integration of ICT tools in Teaching-Learning’ from 20-24 September,2021, Prof. Nayak said “Teaching -Learning can be better facilitated by integrating ICT Tools. Synchronous and Asynchronous mode of online education if used by the learners and teachers would be a pace setter in the domain of digital learning in higher and teacher education”. Chief Guest of the Session Prof. Madhu Parhar, Director CEMCA said, “Use of digital learning tools will bring transformation in teaching-learning process. Welcome address was delivered by Dr. Sudarshan Mishra, the Programme Director of the Workshop series. The Workshop background and activities were briefed by Dr. Manas Ranjan Panigrahi, CEMCA, New Delhi. Vote of thanks was proposed by Dr. Pranita Gopal, the Visiting Faculty and the Coordinator of the Programme. This was followed by three days synchronous learning via Zoom and two days asynchronous learning by LMS. Dr. Ajith Kumar, School of Education, IGNOU oriented the participants on the topics such as ‘Video content creation for Teaching and Learning’ and ‘Reflections and Learning’. Dr. Pranita Gopal oriented on ‘ICT Tools in Teaching and Learning’. The participants learnt the use of various google tools, creation of video contents using ScreenCasto-o-Matic, use of Padlet, Flipgrid, Edpuzzles, launching own YouTube channel and so on. The participants included the faculty members from Universities, Teacher Education Colleges and DIETs. The follow up two round workshop series will be held in the month of October, 2021.The Convener of the Programme Dr. S.K. Rout and other senior faculty members of Department of Education contributed in organization of the workshop.