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Establishing Learning-Centred Education through Open Distributed
Technology Enhanced Learning (ODTEL) Framework
K.R. Srivathsan, [email protected]
National Seminar on Recent Renaissance in Teacher
Education Sri Krishna Engineering
College
May 17, 2009
Convergence and Quality Education
How to apply ICT and manage Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) in ways that enhance quality of education has been a major challenge.
There is plenty of content on the Internet, Web Resources, TV Channels, EDUSAT, Mobile and SMS, Call Centres, …. Cheaper PCs, broadband access, etc.
Yet our universities, colleges are far from using the facilities.
1. Major needs not adequately addressed: Web-based learner support for courses, peer-2-peer students interaction through forums and web-mentoring.
2. No live Students Database and progress tracking.
We need to understand what quality education and education systems are about in the context ICT.
E-Learning – From talks to action
Aug. 2008 at IIT Guwahati, Dr. Manmohan Singh said
“We are one of the youngest nations and, according to observers, India has the potential to create over 500 million trained people by 2022 which is over a fourth of the global workforce. The big opportunity for India would come from an education revolution that we must undertake as our most important national endeavor.”
The World of Education is undergoing a rapid and quiet transformation: How do we in India take advantage of this and synthesize a new framework of providing
Challenge: How do we deploy and use e-Learning, open up quality education to vast numbers of students?
Education (higher/tertiary) reduced to teaching classes against Board/university exams.
No agility in syllabus and students are ‘programmed’ like Artificial Intelligence Systems to ‘answer’ questions!
University education no longer LEARNING CENTRIC. Students tutored for ‘contrived’ university examinations. Aim at securing high pass percentages, not promoting learning and scholarship.
Good teachers have little say. ‘Teaching’ to prepare studnts for exams removes teacher from engaging students in Learning Activities
Education not connected with developments – be they in the scientific or socioeconomic sense.
India’s Int’l Math Olympiad rank fell from 25th in 2007 to 31st in 2008. China is 1st, South Korea 2nd Why?
SAD STATE OF OUR EDUCATION
“QUALITY EDUCATION TO ALL, INDEPENDENT OF GEOGRAPHY.”
“ENABLE, EDUCATE AND EMPOWER EVERY CITIZEN AND COMMUNITY THROUGH KNOWLEDGE.”
Most importantly connect education to community empowerment and developments – socioeconomic, promoting values and scholarship.
How do we ensure our system delivers QUALITY EDUCATION?
How do we use all available modes of reaching and engaging learners in the course to provide a holistic education in every subject offered by IGNOU.
Build on IGNOU’s core strengths and the responsibilities given to it under the Parliament Act.
IGNOU working with NPTEL, institutions and organizations and in national programs of different kinds .
IGNOU’s Vision for Education
For over 10(20?) years we talk of e-learning. Plenty of Technology: Laptops and Netbooks,
High cap thumb drives, IP-TV, iPods, iPhones, GPRS, 3G, Broadband, Satellite, Virtualization, Green IT, etc.
Whole world of new Internet services/applications: Google & ever improving search engines, Open Source systems, LMS, SCIENTIFIC DATABASES, Open Content, Open Access Publishing, e-Books, …
Google’s Slogan: “My other computer is a Datacentre”.
Increasing reach and Affordability.
How we go ahead from CONNECTIVITY & CONTENT to formal systems of Tech Assisted Learning, Teaching And Evaluation (TELTE)? Quality Assured Instruction.
Education To Exploit Wide Varieties Of Technologies
Convergence and IGNOU Open Course Guide (IOCG)
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Group Interactions/ P2P Learning
Knowledge
Man
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PersonalDash Board
WebContent
LMS
CourseExercises
Course Map & Library
WebResources
DiscussionForums
IOCG
SMS AlertsM-Learn
QMS &Web Mentoring
& Alerts
TV &Webinars
Laying the Basis For Quality Education To make our graduates
EMPLOYABLE; to be PRODUCTIVE ON THE JOB and in LIFE.
To observe REAL WORLD PROBLEMS, abstract the issues and apply what they have learnt and their innate sense to solve them.
Foundations, Concepts, Contextual Skills
Self-development Responsibility, Accountability
Professional Competence, Maturity
Quality
Instruction
By Teachers
Quality
Efforts by
Students
IOCG
Quality
Ambience
& Process
es
Quality
Resource
s
IOCG: Proposed IGNOU Open Course Guide System
Education Grid: IITK IIITM-K IGNOU
Education Grid over Regional
Broadband/ ERNET or Internet
Communication Gateway &
Resource Centre
College 1College 2
College 3
College 4College n
Resource Centre 1
E-Learning
Resource Centre 2
Computational Servers
Resource Centre 3ScientificPortals
National Education Grid over Broadband ERNET/Internet
(& EDUSAT?)Network
VISTA Programs
Coordination Centre
Education Grid is a suite of systems and collaborative processes over a network of institutions
Recall Kerala Education Grid
1. Network of Education Servers across colleges
2. Resource Centres in premier institutions.
3. Develop and maintain pedagogically sound refereed courseware in identified subjects.
4. Deploy courseware over subject specific Course Knowledge and Collaboration Space in each subject over the network of Servers.
5. Introduce an IT facilitation layer in the University/ Higher Education System.
Governed by quality management of Content Development and Teacher Training Processes.
IGNOU Education Grid (IEG)
Experts,Mentors
University Study Centres
IGNOU/Universities/Institutions Open Study
Guide & Web Collaboration
Services* *
Academic Management
Education Grid Gateway Systems
Tier–5: Instruction/Evaluation Management Space (Colleges, Study Centers)
Tier-4: Content Alignment & Capacity Building (AU)
College
Tier–3: Content/Web Resources (IGNOU, NPTEL, …)
Tier-2: Systems, Applications (Over Clouds and LAN)
Tier-1: ICT Infrastructure (RailTel, TelCos, STPI, NKN)
STPI
ERNET
RAILTEL
Managed Services
IGNOU practices a robust system of generating printed Self Learning Materials (SLMs) for the learners.
SLMs are pedagogically structured, authored by experts.
IGNOU’s SLMs in various courses are globally respected and also used in several open distance education programs run by the state open universities and others.
Regional Centres of IGNOU provide critical logistics support for Study Centres and supporting them for conducting the contact classes and examinations.
IGNOU now faces the challenge of upgrading the above system and its best practices in the Internet era.
Leverage on Core Strengths of IGNOU
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1.Instruction Delivery
3. SelfTest
2. IGNOU Open Course
Guide: Learning Activities, Exercises
4. Feedback to learners
Set Instructional objectives Evaluate against
Instructional Objectives
Teacher – Learner Involvement in all stages
5. Exams &Evaluation
6. Assessment
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Final Marks, Grade
IGNOU’s ODTEL: A UNIFIED E-L FRAMEWORK
• Each component system is backed by appropriate ICT systems & back office services.
• IGNOU setting up an ‘Educational Technology & Info. Services (ETIS)’ to support and service ODTEL.
Instruction Delivery & Course Management
1. Instruction Delivery may use different modes:
(i) Teacher taking the class uses rich content;
(ii) Tutored Video Instruction using Recorded Video Lectures (RVL)
(ii) IGNOU’s Self Learning Materials (SLM) and supplementary content.
(iv) Web-accessed/DVD based content and interactive study.
Examples: NPTEL RVLs – full suites of ~ 40 lectures per course Visit: www.youtube.com/iit
Web Content: Like NPTEL or Open Courseware, Wikiversity, Curriki.org, etc.: http://nptel.iitm.ac.in
2. Course Management: Engaging learners in disciplined ways of self study, group sessions, exercises and practice Introducing the IGNOU Open Course Guide (IOCG) system.
2. IGNOU Course
Management Group
(CMG)
4. Colleges & Study Centres
3. CMG to develop &
Deploy IGNOU Open Course Guide (IOCG)
Tier-4: Setting the stage for Quality ODTEL:
IGNOU Open Course Guide System
Students & Teachers
24 X7 access
1.SLMs,RVLs, MM Content, Open Web
Instruction Design Cycle
Instruction Management
Cycles
Course Home PageAbout the Course, Prerequisites, Syllabus Instructions to SCs, Tutors Course Objectives
Course Evaluation approach Course Support and Counseling
details. Sequence of Learning Modules
Calendar & Alert Systems Course Concept Map linking
Learning Modules Recommended Text Books, References, Web References
Course CalendarInstruction Team and Contact details
Tier-4: IGNOU Open Course Guide
IOCG is implemented in IGNOU using Mediawiki
Challenge of Immersing Learners in Quality Learning Environment
At the end of a learning effort, a Learner should be able to say ‘I understand’ Add to his/her Tacit capabilities.
TACIT
EXPLICIT
Codified Knowledge and
Processes accessible over the net, paper…
Global networked
Information and computational
base
People’s Competencies, Communications, Feelings,
Intuitions, Social interactions, Judgment, Guestimation, People’s Real World
Adapt Nonaka’s four types of Learning Activities:
Quality Learning with Learning Ambience nurtures above SECI Innovations Driven Learning Environment (IDLE).
CMG to build the IOCG rich with pointers to case studies, learning activities, multimedia illustrations, real world situations, term papers, projects and field work.
Use LMS for course events management, interactions, discussion forums, assessment activities & for feedback to students.
Tier-3&4: IOCG Categories of Learning Activities Based Upon Tacit – Explicit Interplay
Socialize Externalize
Internalize Combinational Thinking
Tacit
Tacit
Explicit
Explicit
Module TopicMotivational/anecdotal content Instructional Objectives
Learning Activities Sequencing: RVL to be played, SLM Unit, textbook sections, recommended problem set,
practice, experiments, etc. LMS used for asynchronous Interactions and
directives to students. Use of TV Sessions, IP-TV, Webinar driven by
Calendar Guidance for Tutorial Monitored Self test and counseling classes for learners.
Module test (part of continuous evaluation). Mid-term and end term tests conducted. Computer Assisted Evaluation methods may be used.
Tier-4: SAMPLE IOCG MODULE
IOCG Technology: A Canonical Course Management System
IOCG Over Open Wiki
Learners Distributed
Over Geography
Course and Instruction
Management Team
IOCG guides course related learning activities management
SLM, LMS (Moodle), VoD, Books Web Content, Discussion
Forums, QMS, etc.
CMG formally appointed for each course by the School.
CMG Prepares the IGNOU OPEN COURSE GUIDE (IOCG)
Relevant RVLs and content preloaded in Study Centre server and distributed to registered students in a course.
IOCG has built-in Course Calendar and schedule of learning and assessment activities for the course duration.
An LMS (MOODLE) used for Tests, assessment, individual feedback to learners.
Self Tests, Evaluation, Feedback counseling, Students interaction among themselves & with counselors and CMG through Discussion Forums and other means.
Support for M-Learning, SMS & mail Alerts for course ents.
Query Management System addresses personal queries.
IOCG as Formal TEL Academic System
‘Canonical’ refers to concepts that have a kind of uniqueness or naturalness, and are "independent of coordinates."
An example: A Browser is canonical as an interface between user and his/her interactions with the diverse information and services in the Internet.
The IOCG System is canonical in the sense its structure is quite simple – at its core it is a Wiki – and it allows diverse pedagogies to be built over it.
Any pedagogic option may be built as statements and declarations of links to activities in the IOCG.
IOCG guides and coordinates the instruction team, learners and those who manage the course related resources and information.
IOCG – a Canonical Course Management System?
Tutored Video Instruction (TVI) was introduced by Prof. J. Gibbons, Stanford University in 1970s.
TVI involves recording video lectures of class and given to students (in ‘distance’ mode) to play and listen. They need not attend the routine lectures.
Weekly contact, or Interaction Classes held for tutorials, small tests, answering common doubts (as expressed in a discussion forum), conducting continuous evaluation exercises, motivational topics, case studies and problem solving, etc.
Interaction classes may be more extended than tutorials.
TVI changes ‘Distance Learning’ and classroom learning to COLLABORATIVE LEARNING.
Studies show performance of students as a whole increases by ~ 0.6σ shift in the mean of the class.
Tier-5: Tutored Video Instruction
2. IGNOU Course
Management Group
(CMG)
4. Study Centres & Colleges
Tier –5: Counsellors/Teachers Guided by IOCG and Augmented by CMG
Support
Students &
teachers 24X7
access
1.SLMs,RVLs, MM Content, Open Web
Instruction Management
Cycles
Content Management
Cycles
3. IGNOU Open Course Guide
(IOCG)
IOCG (Back)
SMS Alerts &M-Learn support
for Students, CMG, & Instruction Team
eGyankosh & Multimedia Content onDemand
Education &IT Services
(EITS)
Discussion Forums, LMS
& Collaboration
Regional ServicesSupport for
Study Centres
Towards ‘Smart’ IOCG from ACIIL
Web Resources Support
IOCG (Front)
IGNOU Educational Technology and Information Services (EITS) as ‘Back Office’
Teachers & Students in the subject
Course Management Group
Capacity Building & Linkages to
R&D, Communities &
Industry
Subject related Library, e-Journals and open access publicationsETIS
IOCG anchored Course Community
ETIS is operated under ACIIL at IGNOU – Delhi by integrating IGNOU’s existing core services.
Education Technology and Information Services (ETIS)
TV & Webinar Sessions
IGNOU Online Study Guide (IOSG)
Community Radio Sessions
Discussion Forums, Online Calendar and Alert Systems
TV & Webinar Sessions Community Radio Sessions
TV & Webinar Sessions Community Radio SessionsFile/Assignments U/D Query Management System
Online Library and Multimedia Publishing System
Counsellors Support & Web Mentoring System
Regional/Study Centres Support System
Rejith R., Sukant Kole and Divya Raj provide core support for ETIS. ETIS is et up under the ACIIL with K. Subramanian as its Director. Supervised by: Sanjay Mishra and K.R. Srivathsan Supported by Computer Division, IUC and STRIDE. Madhu Prahar, Vijay Srivastava, Ramanujam associated with the
support systems, learning support and services. Ms. G. Mythili assisting in developing the training program. An IGNOU Education Grid development facility is being set up in
Room 20, Block 7 and existing IUC facilities.
Likely to start the ‘Developmental Informatics and Web Resources Lab’ under ACIIL in a suitable location to develop and support several advanced ICT systems and services for the IEG and convergence.
On the Team and ETIS
IOCG supports Integrated Multi-modal Engagement of Learners in ODTEL
IOSG& ETIS Internet
IGNOU Schools &
Centres
Agriculture, Health, …
State’s Colleges
Institutions
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Internet Accessed Services
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Kiosk/CSC access
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PhoneCall Centre
Under NPTEL, the IITs/IISc are developing and posting openly content in the form of Recorded Video Lectures (RVLs) and web-accessed in ~ 250 courses posted. More courses to be developed under NPTEL Phase-II.
IOCG has just been started to provide a way to integrate the NPTEL and IGNOU’s content with quality education delivery.
IGNOU and NPTEL will announce programs for Proficiency Certificate, Diploma and Certified Instructor for teachers and interested professionals.
In Long term provide open support for colleges to conduct better education for thei students.
Make engineering and other education Learning and Learner Centric.
NPTEL and IOCG Based Education Delivery
“ The only irreplaceable capital an organization possesses is the knowledge and the ability of its people.
The productivity of that capital depends on how effectively people share their competence
with those who can use it.”
- Andrew Carnegie
19th Century
‘The End of Education is Character.’ – Sai Baba
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First to IIITM-K for the years spent experimenting with diverse systems of eLearning, the Education Grid, KISSAN-
Kerala and others.
Second to all those colleagues at IIITM-K, specifically Dr. Venkatesh, Shri
Radhakrishnan, Shri Ajith Kumar, Shri Pradeep Kumar, Dr. Dinesh, Shri Arvind Mohan, Shri
David Mathews, and several others.
Third to Vice Chancellor and Board of IGNOU and now Shri Sukant Kole, Ms. Divya Raj, Shri
Rejith. R, Dr. Sanjay Mishra, Dr. VSP Srivastava and others for supporting the
ongoing initiatives.
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