STATUS, E-ASSESSMENT AND OPEN SOURCE RESOURCES FOR MOOCS
DEVELOPMENT DISCUSSED IN THE WORKSHOP
Vinay
Kumar Sharma
Chandigarh
The
day six of the workshop was devoted to the status of MOOCs, e-assessment, Open source resources for MOOCs. The
seven days workshop on Designing and development of MOOCs is being
organised by the Centre of Academic Leadership and Education Management
(CALEM) and Swayam Cell, Panjab University, Chandigarh. Prof.
Jatinder Grover, CALEM Coordinator, PU, and Dr. Vishal Sharma, SWAYAM
Coordinator PU introduced the theme and topics to the participants
attending seven days workshop on designing and development of MOOCs.
The first academic session was devoted to the Status of MOOCs through the
perspective of Statistics by Prof. Ravi K. Mahajan from Departmentof
Statistics, USOL, P.U. Prof. Mahajan took the participants on the journey
of various MOOC platforms available and the courses offered by them. The
characteristics of the SLM (Self Learning Mode) and SIM (Self
Instructional Mode) were shared with the participants. He stressed on
the quality of the educational content and transferring that into
e-content (script/ video production/ audio content/animations). He also
stressed on the quality multimedia presentations using visual and
graphical presentations for engaging the learners undertaking MOOCs. He
also gave the historical background of video productions/e-content for
UGC Countrywide classroom, undertaken by USOL in the past. The
second academic session was devoted to the E-assessment of MOOCs by
Prof. Uma Kanjilal from IGNOU. She explained in detail the concept of
xMOOC (traditional, Linear and having centralized repository) and cMOOC
(Non-linear and social networked learning). Besides, that various
component of MOOCs and intricacies of E-assessment of MOOCs were also
discussed. The recognition of credits marks earned through MOOCs was
discussed. She also explained the modalities of transfer of credits
across universities for the MOOCs. Dr. Amit Deogar from NITTTR,
Chandigarh discussed the various Open source resources (OER) for MOOCs
Development. The enlightened the participants the freedom of using open
source software and website distrowatch.com for downloading many Open source software’s. He also
shared if we start using the Open source softwares we can save cores of rupees
and will help our economy. He also highlighted the importance of BOSS
(the operating system) developed by the CDAC. He shared the
problem of Software Piracy and concept of a Common Creative License.
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