1. E-content Generation and Delivery Management for Student Centric Learning CONTROL NUMBER : DE- 07080910226 Dr DVLN Somayajulu Professor, PI and Institute Coordinator for NMEICT National Institute of Technology Warangal Email: somadvlns@gmail.com somadvlns@gmail.com

2. Outline 1.Project Objectives 2.Action Taken Report 3.Current Status and milestones achieved 4.Budget Details 5.Academic Reviewer’s reports 6.DPR and plan for completion 7.What is learned from the Pilot project

3. Project Goal:  “The development of knowledge having the right content to take care of the aspirations and to address the personalized needs of the learners”. -NMEICT Mission document  Objective is to develop e-content for subject of learners and teachers

4. Project Objectives  E-content development for 24 courses in 8 disciplines.  Training of identified students and faculty  Creation of infrastructure for e-learning and design and deployment of web site.

5. Last SC meeting minutes – Action Taken Report  Course details for main phase were not given - Developers gave lecture plans for 24 courses.  Budget is more than NMEICT norms - Modified budget details to meet the norms of NMEICT and total cost for 24 courses is restricted to Rs 168 lakhs.

6. Last SC meeting minutes – Action Taken Report ( contd..)  Improvement of Audio and video quality and other issues handled related to pilot phase courses  Identified video lectures of pilot courses for re-recording.  Conducted Academic reviews.  Suggestions and issues raised by academic experts were consolidated for each course and instructed all the developers to incorporate the changes during main phase activity without any additional grant.  Software was redesigned to show all the lectures planned in pilot phase in four quadrant format.  Status report of project was sent for uploading into Sakshat portal by Email in June, 2011.

7. Current Status and Plan for completion ( contd..)  Pilot is almost completed and ready to initiate the main project.  Plan for Completion (18 months from approval date for main phase) E-content design and development for 24 engineering courses and customization of online content delivery platform for flexible learning in four quadrant model. Setting up of the environment (studio) for e- Content generation. Training students and faculty

8. What is learned from the Pilot project  Issues for student centric learning How to make students participate actively and interactively How to make students own and be responsible for learning How to reach students with differing abilities How to promote self-evaluation by students How to stimulate and sustain student interest in the subject

9.  Students from rural background normally have: Poor basic skills esp. Comprehension Slow absorption of concepts Inability to get doubts clarified in a class room Absence of competitive spirit Minimal understanding of evaluation rubrics

10. Proof of Concept - 4Q Approach  First Quadrant: Video lecture, multiple entry points, lecture notes,  Second Quadrant: Slides, Gist of lecture, name Concepts, quality, Five doubts, questions.  Third Quadrant: Graded self assessment test, assignments (minimum 3 for each lecture), Discussion thread,  Fourth Quadrant: web links, list of references, case studies, Historical development

11. Feedback used in Continual Development  From Students  From Faculty  Academic reviewers  Monitoring committees - Internal - External

12. Approach followed  (Content Development ) – used Four Quadrant approach -Class room tested e-content -Graded Questions -Assignments  (Delivery Mechanism) -Updatable content on the web -Web interaction for learners and peers -Also available in CD form -User manual version 1 is ready

13. Budget Details – Pilot (in Rs) S NoHead of A/cActual Exp. Committe d Exp 1E-content Generation for 3 pilot courses on turn key basis 8,55,3905,70,260 2Travel for experts, coordinators, SMEs and others 2,58,32915,000 3Air Conditioners1,05,000Nil 4 Honorarium2,07,000Nil 5 Consumables, contingencies, manpower, hospitality, audit ng charges and Misc changes 46,04915,000 14,71,7686,00,260 Total Spent20,72,028.0 0 Balance27,972.00

14. Budget for Main phase S NoHead of A/cAmount (In lakhs) 1Capital Equipment42.75 2Honorarium for faculty for producing content for 24 courses 88.00 3Workshops and Training10.00 4Travel10.00 5Honorarium for Internal, External committees and others 12.60 6Contingencies and consumables02.65 7Miscellaneous charges02.00 Grand total168.00

15. Lessons Learned  Recording is done after incorporating the student feedback, which improved the content qualitatively and quantitatively  The very process enthused the students to ask deeper questions and help generate quality oriented questions  It influenced the three developers in a way that changed their established way of teaching the subject

16. Parameters Suggested  Admin. Support – internal and external  Timelines and adherence to – mostly followed  Clarity on deliverables – provided  Transparency and openness – followed  Quality parameters adopted – Academic reviews completed  Dynamics of peer group – students and faculty  Difficulties faced so far – lack of infrastructure initially and place is ready for set up the environment, equipment still to procure, etc.  Progress made so far – almost completed and review is in progress

21. On-going NMEICT activities at NITW  Pedagogy Research Project – Pilot work completed for 17 courses.  Remote centre for conducting NMEICT workshops in association with IIT, Bombay.  Participating Interactive sessions with A-view.

22. Workshops and interactive sessions conducted at NITW  Regional centre for conducting NMEICT workshops in remote mode in association with IIT, Bombay -Organized two workshops in Summer and December 2010 and trained around 140 faculty on Computer programming and problem solving and Database Management System courses. -Organized one workshop recently by ECE dept in association with IITB. -Organized four interactive sessions using A View.

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