E-content Generation and Delivery

Management for Student Centric

Learning CONTROL NUMBER : DE- 07080910226

Dr DVLN SomayajuluProfessor , PI and Institute Coordinator for NMEICT

National Institute of TechnologyWarangal

Email: somadvlns@gmail.com

Outline 1. Project Objectives 2. Action Taken Report 3. Current Status and milestones

achieved4. Academic Reviewer’s reports 5. What is learned from the Pilot

project 6. Budget Details7. DPR and plan for completion

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

Project Objectives E-content (video) development for 24

courses in 8 disciplines.

Training of identified students and faculty

Creation of necessary facilities for generating content.

Last SC meeting minutes – Action Taken Report

Course details for main phase were not given

- Developers gave lecture plans for 24 courses ( Report submitted to NMEICT)

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 ( submitted to NMEICT).

Last SC meeting minutes – Action Taken Report ( contd..)

Improvement of Audio and video quality and other issues handled related to pilot phase courses Modified the video lectures of pilot courses . 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.

Current Status and Plan for completion ( contd..)

Pilot is 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.

Hand-held Training students and faculty using this e-content in the form of workshops.

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

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

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

Feedback used in Continual Development One salient point in this project is continual

feedback from our campus students and others in the preparation of student centric e-content.

Apart from this we recorded feedback from : o Students o Faculty o Academic reviewers

Monitoring committees - Internal - External

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

Budget Details ( pilot phase)

Total money received as 1st installment is spent and balance of Rs 4,500/- is remaining in this project

Budget for Main phaseS No Head of A/c Amount

(In lakhs)

1 Capital Equipment 42.75

2 Honorarium for faculty for producing content for 24 courses

88.00

3 Workshops and Training 10.00

4 Travel 10.00

5 Honorarium for Internal, External committees and others

12.60

6 Contingencies and consumables 02.65

7 Miscellaneous charges 02.00

Grand total 168.00

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

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

Thank You