Title: Establishing LearningCentred Education through Open Distributed Technology Enhanced Learning ODTEL F
1Establishing Learning-Centred Education through
Open Distributed Technology Enhanced Learning
(ODTEL) Framework
- K.R. Srivathsan, IGNOU
- srivathsan_at_ignou.ac.in
- National Seminar on Recent Renaissance in
Teacher Education Sri Krishna
Engineering College - May 17, 2009
2- 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. - Major needs not adequately addressed Web-based
learner support for courses, peer-2-peer students
interaction through forums and web-mentoring. - No live Students Database and progress tracking.
- ? We need to understand what quality education
and education systems are about in the context
ICT.
3E-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?
4SAD STATE OF OUR EDUCATION
- 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. - ? Indias Intl Math Olympiad rank fell from 25th
in 2007 to 31st in 2008. China is 1st, South
Korea 2nd ? Why?
5IGNOUs Vision for 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 IGNOUs 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 .
6Education To Exploit Wide Varieties Of
Technologies
- 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, - Googles 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.
7Convergence and IGNOU Open Course Guide (IOCG)
8Laying 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.
? IOCG Proposed IGNOU Open Course Guide System
9Education Grid IITK ? IIITM-K ? IGNOU
Education Grid is a suite of systems and
collaborative processes over a network of
institutions
Resource Centre 3 Scientific Portals
College 2
College 1
Communication Gateway Resource Centre
College 3
National Education Grid over Broadband
ERNET/Internet ( EDUSAT?) Network
Resource Centre 2 Computational Servers
VISTA Programs Coordination Centre
College n
College 4
Resource Centre 1 E-Learning
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11IGNOU Education Grid (IEG)
IGNOU/Universities/Institutions Open Study Guide
Web Collaboration Services
Education Grid Gateway Systems
Study Centres
University
College
Experts, Mentors
Tier5 Instruction/Evaluation Management Space
(Colleges, Study Centers)
Tier-4 Content Alignment Capacity Building
(AU)
R A I L T E L
Academic Management
Tier3 Content/Web Resources (IGNOU, NPTEL, )
Tier-2 Systems, Applications (Over Clouds and
LAN)
Managed Services
Tier-1 ICT Infrastructure (RailTel, TelCos,
STPI, NKN)
12Leverage on Core Strengths of IGNOU
- IGNOU practices a robust system of generating
printed Self Learning Materials (SLMs) for the
learners. - SLMs are pedagogically structured, authored by
experts. - IGNOUs 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.
13IGNOUs ODTEL A UNIFIED E-L FRAMEWORK
Final Marks, Grade
- 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.
14Instruction Delivery Course Management
- Instruction Delivery may use different modes
- (i) Teacher taking the class uses rich
content - (ii) Tutored Video Instruction using Recorded
Video Lectures (RVL) - (ii) IGNOUs 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.
15Tier-4 Setting the stage for Quality ODTEL
IGNOU Open Course Guide System
Instruction Management Cycles
4. Colleges Study Centres
Instruction Design Cycle
Students Teachers 24 X7 access
1.SLMs,RVLs, MM Content, Open Web
3. CMG to develop Deploy IGNOU Open Course
Guide (IOCG)
16Tier-4 IGNOU Open Course Guide
Course Home Page About 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
Calendar Instruction Team and Contact details
IOCG is implemented in IGNOU using Mediawiki
17Challenge 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.
Codified Knowledge and Processes accessible over
the net, paper Global networked Information and
computational base
Peoples Competencies, Communications, Feelings,
Intuitions, Social interactions, Judgment,
Guestimation, Peoples Real World
18Tier-34 IOCG Categories of Learning Activities
Based Upon Tacit Explicit Interplay
- Adapt Nonakas 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.
19Tier-4 SAMPLE IOCG MODULE
- Module Topic
- Motivational/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.
20IOCG Technology A Canonical Course Management
System
Course and Instruction Management Team
Learners Distributed Over Geography
SLM, LMS (Moodle), VoD, Books Web Content,
Discussion Forums, QMS, etc.
? IOCG guides course related learning activities
management
21IOCG as Formal TEL Academic System
- 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.
22IOCG a Canonical Course Management 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.
23Tier-5 Tutored Video Instruction
- 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 0.6s shift in the mean of the
class.
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25Towards Smart IOCG from ACIIL
Regional Services Support for Study Centres
SMS Alerts M-Learn support for Students, CMG,
Instruction Team
eGyankosh Multimedia Content on Demand
Discussion Forums, LMS Collaboration
Education IT Services (EITS)
Web Resources Support
26IGNOU Educational Technology and Information
Services (EITS) as Back Office
Course Management Group
Teachers Students in the subject
IOCG anchored Course Community
Capacity Building Linkages to RD, Communities
Industry
Subject related Library, e-Journals and open
access publications
ETIS
- ETIS is operated under ACIIL at IGNOU Delhi by
integrating IGNOUs existing core services.
27Education Technology and Information Services
(ETIS)
28On the Team and ETIS
- 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.
29IOCG supports Integrated Multi-modal Engagement
of Learners in ODTEL
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30NPTEL and IOCG Based Education Delivery
- 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 IGNOUs 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.
31 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
32ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 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.
33T OGETHER E VERYONE A CHIEVES M ORE
Thank You