Orientation workshop for top 253 participants of Use of ICT in Education for Online and Blended Learning

Introduction

IIT Bombay has been involved with distance synchronous education, since year 2000. We have trained over 1,00,000 teachers, in partnership with IIT Kharagpur, under the T10KT (Train 10 Thousand Teachers at a time) project sponsored by NMEICT. Majority of the training workshops focused core domain topics in Science and Engineering, like Computer Science or Thermodynamics etc. These programmes have been well received by the participating faculty.

Use of ICT tools and flipped-classroom with associated pedagogy of active learning, has been proven by educational researchers to increase effectiveness of teaching-learning. However, the lack of exposure to such proven best practices is creating a barrier for many faculty to effectively integrate ICT tools in their regular practice. It thus becomes an urgent national requirement that all our teachers, especially those teaching in our professional colleges, are empowered to use technology effectively using these best practices so that their students benefit.

In the recent concluded FDP on “Use of ICT in Education for online and blended Learning”, we had more than 4000 participants getting exposed to best practices associated with MOODLE, Wordpress and Screencasts. 253 participants emerged as top performers based on the various activities in this FDP. To take this initiative further, we are organizing “Orientation workshop” on 25th and 26th March, 2017, for such participants. In this, the sessions will have focus on possible activities and strategies through which faculty associated with the programme can leverage similar efforts within their own operating context.

Course content

The topics to be covered in this workshop:

1. Blending instructions with ICT
2. Facilitating Collaboration
3. Effectively utilizing discussion forums
4. Sustaining Collaborative communities

Teaching Faculty

Prof. Deepak B. Phatak
Dept. CSE, IIT Bombay.

Who Should Attend

This is an "Orientation workshop for top 253 participants of Use of ICT in Education for Online and Blended Learning".

Duration and Venue

The duration of this workshop is for two days. It commences on Saturday, 25th March, 2017 and ends on Sunday, 26th March, 2017

Venue: IITBombay

Criteria for Certification

To be announced later

Course Fee

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How to Apply

This workshop is by invitation only.

Accommodation

To be announced later

Note

To be announced later

Address For Communication

To be announced later