Workshop on Design and Development of Lessons for Blended Learning for Teacher Educators of Odisha

A five day workshop using blended learning pedagogy was organized for the Teacher Educators of Odisha on designing and developing lessons for Blended Learning for Teacher Educators of Odisha from 26th Oct to 30th Oct 2021.

Dr. Indira Koneru, Associate Dean & Head, elearning Department, ICFAI Business School conducted this five day workshop where Dr Koneru provided hands on learning experience to participants on familiarizing, working and creating learning material in Moodle. The workshop began with a detailed explanation on Blended Learning Environments and how to write course objectives for the courses. Dr Koneru also explained the step wise process to create the Course Introduction video for each course. Video based course introduction is an essential requirement under the SWAYAM platform and helps learners understand the course expectations and course learning outcomes. The participants were expected to create the videos using Screencast-o-matic and upload it to the Moodle platform. The second day of the workshop focussed on embedding the course introduction video in the Moodle Platform and giving feedback to each other. The workshop then continued to discuss the course assessment options available via Moodle. For this participants learnt how to create a question bank, import questions from the question bank into the Moodle, various types of questions that can be used to create formative and summative assessment tasks. On day four of the workshop participants learnt about different types of asynchronous activities that can be blended into the Moodle Platform. On the last day of the workshop the participants learnt about how to create badges, how to embed OERs and webpages into the Book Module of Moodle, grade assessments, send message alerts to participants. Participants also learnt to evaluate blended course quality using COL’s blended course learnability evaluation checklist.

The workshops were attended with enthusiasm and participation of teacher educators was noteworthy.