Foundation Program in ICT for Education

Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission for Teachers and Teaching (PMMMNMTT), MHRD, GoI


August 3rd, 2017 to November 10th, 2017

Course Content Teaching Faculty Who Should Attend
Duration and Venue Criteria for Certification Course Fee
How to Apply Accommodation Note
Address For Communication

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Help-line Contacts

Instructions for Enrolling in the workshop Participating Remote Centers

Registration Closed List of participants

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Introduction

IIT Bombay has been involved with distance synchronous education, since year 2000. We have trained over 1,36,000 teachers, in partnership with IIT Kharagpur, under the T10KT (Train 10 Thousand Teachers at a time) project sponsored by NMEICT. All training workshops so far, were on specific subjects of Engineering and Science Education, most of which are taught as core courses in our colleges and universities. These programs have been beneficial to the participating faculty.

Online educational methodology, and flipped classrooms with associated pedagogy of active learning, have quickly emerged as the mainstay of effective education in this century. However, most of our teachers lack skills and competencies for proper and effective use of ICT in education. It is thus an urgent national requirement that all our teachers, at least those teaching in our professional colleges, are empowered to use technology effectively, to enhance the quality of education.

Course content

Module 1. Information Capture, Storage, and Display

  1. Subsystem of Computer Devices for Capture
    1. Keyboard, Monitor, Printer, Webcams, Mouse, Hard disks, Software
    2. Tablets and Smart Phones
    3. Servers, Cloud, Storage Farms
  2. Effective Storage and Display
    1. Directory Organization and File Handling
    2. Dealing with multiple information format
    3. Organizing and Searching
Module 2. The world of Internet and Web
  1. Essentials
    1. Basics of Connectivity, LANs and WANs, Wireless and Bluetooth
    2. Organization of Web, IP Address, Domain Names, DNS Servers
    3. Browsers and Plug-ins
  2. Effective exploration of Web
    1. Searching Techniques
    2. Best practices for exploration
Module 3. Use of ICT for Resource Creation and Management
  1. Digital Content Creation using common productivity tools
    1. Document Editors
    2. Presentation Software
    3. Spreadsheets
  2. Audio-Video Resource Creation: Spoken Tutorial Methodology
  3. Content Management Systems
  4. Learning Management Systems
Module 4. Best Practices for Information dissemination with ICT
  1. Best Practices for Visual Communication
  2. Best Practices for Online Collaboration
    1. ICT as a facilitator for academic ethics and integrity
    2. Creative Commons Licensing
    3. Netiquettes for effective email communication
    4. Practices for engaging in healthy discussion
  3. Facilitating collaborative resource creation and evaluation for online usage

Teaching Faculty

Prof. Deepak B. Phatak, Dept. of CSE, IIT Bombay
Prof. Kannan Moudgalya, Dept of Chem Engg, IIT Bombay
Prof. U V Bhandarkar, Dept. of Mech. Engg, IIT Bombay
Prof. P Sunthar, Dept. of Chem Engg, IIT Bombay
Dr. Sameer Sahasrabudhe, Dept. of CSE, IIT Bombay
Mr. Jayakrishnan M, IDP in ET, IIT Bombay

Who Should Attend

As this FDP is not subject-specific, teaching faculty from any domain, including faculty from management, polytechnics, science, arts and commerce can participate. Teachers registered in a Masters or a PhD program, during their employment as a teacher, can also participate. Additionally, participants should have basic familiarity with computer.

Participants, who have not certified in the earlier FDP (2016), are eligible to participate in the FDP.

Duration and Venue

This Two-week FDP consists of two components as follows:

1.Online work by individual participants: Each participant is expected to access the online platform (IITBombayX), using a PC at home or office, on any convenient day and time during the week, with an online test every week. Each participant has to spend 6 to 8 hours of efforts per week during this component of the FDP. This is equivalent to one day of work in a regular FDP. This activity will be spread over 5 calendar weeks: From Thursday 03 August 2017 to Thursday 07 September 2017.

2. Face-to-Face interaction: Participants will have to physically attend these sessions at their chosen or designated Remote Centers (RCs), established across the country by IIT Bombay. Focused interactive sessions with the participating teachers, will be conducted by the faculty from IIT Bombay. The discussions and local tutorial sessions will be moderated by the Workshop Coordinators appointed at each RC. This activity will be conducted on the weekend of 19, 20 August 2017.

Criteria for Certification

IIT Bombay will award certificates only to those participants who successfully complete prescribed online tests with minimum 50% aggregate score, and meaningfully participate in face-to-face sessions. AICTE has recognized this as a Two-week FDP.

Please go through the brochure thoroughly to know about the certification policy

Course Fee

Funding support from Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) permits us to offer the FDP without any course fees. Participants have to take care of their expenses for travel/food during the A-VIEW interaction at Remote Centers.

How to Apply

If you wish to attend this course, you should register online. The online registration has started from Friday 7 July 2017.The last date of online registration is Wednesday 02 August 2017
The URL for registration is http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/nmeict/announcements.html .
The registration for FDP201x - "Pedagogy for Online and Blended Teaching-Learning Process" will be limited to participants, who successfully complete the FDP101x.

Accommodation

Not applicable.

Note

Please note that this FDP is conducted under the aegis of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission for Teachers and Teaching (PMMMNMTT) through T10KT project of IIT Bombay. Live recording of the course and other created content would be released under Open Source, through a portal. The recorded CD/DVD of the course lectures would be available for distribution at cost, to any individual/ institution. All participants are required to sign a No Objection certificate for such release of contents contributed by them during and after the FDP. All contributors will be acknowledged.

Address For Communication

Dr. Kalpana Kannan,
Sr. Project Manager,
Department of CSE, Kanwal Rekhi Building,
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,
Mumbai - 400 076.
Tel.: +91-22-2576 4989
Fax: +91-22-2572 0022
Email: eoutreach@it.iitb.ac.in

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