KQ 2 A clarification on question no.4

[Sudarshan Rangarajan]

Sir, 

Question 4 of KQ 2. I opted for first three option.My answer has been valued incorrect.I do not understand how? 

Lecture video of 40 minutes is too long implies it can been covered in less time.So both options are same right? 

Please explain. 

Sudarshan 

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[Sudarshan Rangarajan]

Sir,

Please find attached for my below mail. 

[Jayakrishnan M]

Sorry for the late reply.

Here the question is: "Why isn't this an LeD?"

So the point to note here is that may be the concept requires such detailed explanation, but to qualify as a learning dialogue the lecture has to be chunked and interspersed with Reflection Spots.

[Jayakrishnan M]

Dear Dr. Uzzal Sharma,

I am posting this in the discussion forum as this is an important question that has to be addressed.

It is not mandatory that every MOOC should follow an LCM design. LCM is a prescribed model if you want your learners to benefit from the learning and engagement opportunities available in a MOOC. As you yourself would have witnessed in this MOOC, the results of such learner engagement is tremendous.

Now we cannot strictly enforce any Instructional Model (be it face-to-face or online) on any instructor. The instructor has to be first comfortable with the pedagogic practices and also the technology affordances (especially in an online setting). What we are trying to do with this course is to create a sensitization among everyone on how we can shift the perspective from a teacher-centered pedagogy to a learner-centered pedagogy.

In a regular face-to-face setting there are several existing pedagogic strategies, put under the umbrella term - Active Learning, that will help the faculty to be learner-centric in their teaching-learning process. For online learning, especially MOOCs, there are no specific models that are currently available. LCM fills this void.

The larger idea is to disseminate the LCM ideas among the regular classroom teachers so that they can contextualize MOOC content in their regular teaching-learning process (regardless of whether it is LCM or non-LCM). So in a sense all of you are torchbearers of the LCM philosophy and we hope that you will include some part of it in your regular teaching-learning from now on.

Regards

Jk

On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 10:58 PM Dr Uzzal Sharma <druzza...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Sir,

If someone do not apply LCM, is it still valid MOOC's? Because as per my knowledge, there are many state universities, who have MOOC's courses which are not Learner Centric.

Please reply.

with best regards,

Dr. Uzzal Sharma

Assistant Professor (Senior),

Dept. of CSE & IT,

School of Technology,

Assam Don Bosco University

Cell: +919707020618

On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 12:57 AM Dr Uzzal Sharma <druzza...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you for the information.

Dr. Uzzal Sharma

Assistant Professor (Senior),

Dept. of CSE & IT,

School of Technology,

Assam Don Bosco University

Cell: +919707020618

On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 12:55 AM Jayakrishnan M <j...@nptel.iitm.ac.in> wrote:

As said earlier, the results will get published between Oct 15 and Oct 30.

On Mon, Sep 30, 2019, 12:51 AM Dr Uzzal Sharma <druzza...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you for the clarification. When are you planning to publish?

Exam was good and your videos were very helpful.

Thank you once again

with best regards,

Dr. Uzzal Sharma

Assistant Professor (Senior),

Dept. of CSE & IT,

School of Technology,

Assam Don Bosco University

Cell: +919707020618

On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 12:42 AM Jayakrishnan M <j...@nptel.iitm.ac.in> wrote:

No, sorry. You will have to wait for us to publish it.

How was your exam?

On Sun, Sep 29, 2019, 6:28 PM Dr Uzzal Sharma <druzza...@gmail.com> wrote:

Sir, is there any way to check our score of MCQ test held on 29?

With best regards

On Sun, 29 Sep 2019, 14:14 Jayakrishnan M <j...@nptel.iitm.ac.in wrote:

The results should be out by around Oct 20. The exact dates will be intimated by NPTEL team.

On Sun, Sep 29, 2019, 12:03 PM Dr Uzzal Sharma <druzza...@gmail.com> wrote:

Sir,

When the result of the exam will be out?

with best regards,

Dr. Uzzal Sharma

Assistant Professor (Senior),

Dept. of CSE & IT,

School of Technology,

Assam Don Bosco University

Cell: +919707020618

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[Jayakrishnan M]

Hi,

Answering each of your queries:

In the regulation it is mentioned that "MOOCs (developed in 4 quadrant) per module/lecture" (Please see the highighted portion in the attachent sent by me). So, one video lecture means one lecture according to my understanding.

Please note that guideline says: For Complete MOOC production - 20 points. and MOOCs (developed in 4 quadrant) per module/lecture. Now as you rightly said, not all MOOCs are based on LCM. So it may be possible some may record a week's content in a single video. Hence the guideline has the wording "module/lecture". And another important aspect to look is the 4-quadrants. This means it is not just video, but includes assessment (in LCM terminology - LbD), discussion forum (in LCM this is LxI) and additional resources (in LCM terminology it is LxT). So as I interpret it, development of the full module (i.e LeD,LbD,LxI and LxT) gives you the 5 points.

Moreover video lectures for the entire course, shall not be justified for 5 credits. As an example, in the Designing LCM prepared by you of 4 weeks contains 32 videos.. To get 5 credits, one has to record all the videos? You yourself experienced the effort you put forward for recording each video lecture. Is not it?

Credits are not measured on the basis of amount of effort/quantity of teaching materials put in by instructor. It is a measure of effort that has to be put in by the learner for learning the content. So even if you spend 10 hours on planning, preparation and shooting of one video, if the learner requires only 1 hour to watch and another 1.5 hours to practice and learn the content the total learning effort is 2.5 hours. And when this calculation is done on a weekly basis you get the approximate learning effort per week (which is roughly the credit for the course). Now within India there is diverse understanding of Credit. Do check this document put up in NPTEL Local Chapter page for Universities attempting Credit Transfer.    

2 credit is given for Content writer/subject matter expert for each module of MOOCs (at least one quadrant), that is for each transcript you prepare or if you work as an SME, you will get 2 credits, I think not for a video lecture.

As I understand, the SME can also create videos (as it is one of the quadrant). It need not be content writing alone. But, yes you will get more clarity from the UGC team (or any existing UGC/CEC/IGNOU Course Coordinator) about finer interpretation of this point system. In NPTEL we do not have any point system per se for our course instructors.

On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 3:20 PM Dr Uzzal Sharma <druzza...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you for your clarification.

In the regulation it is mentioned that "MOOCs (developed in 4 quadrant) per module/lecture" (Please see the highighted portion in the attachent sent by me). So, one video lecture means one lecture according to my understanding. Moreover video lectures for the entire course, shall not be justified for 5 credits. As an example, in the Designing LCM prepared by you of 4 weeks contains 32 videos.. To get 5 credits, one has to record all the videos? You yourself experienced the effort you put forward for recording each video lecture. Is not it?

2 credit is given for Content writer/subject matter expert for each module of MOOCs (at least one quadrant), that is for each transcript you prepare or if you work as an SME, you will get 2 credits, I think not for a video lecture.

Please clarify.

Dr. Uzzal Sharma

Assistant Professor (Senior),

Dept. of CSE & IT,

School of Technology,

Assam Don Bosco University

Cell: +919707020618

On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 12:37 PM Jayakrishnan M <j...@nptel.iitm.ac.in> wrote:

Thank You for sharing the UGC guidelines.

Yes, I am aware of this. And if you are part of the course team in any MOOC then contribution has to happen in all four quadrants. For a single quadrant (i.e. Content Writer/Subject Matter Expert), as per the guideline you will get only 02 credits. And I guess, this implies just a single video alone will not be sufficient. Assuming that a topic requires more than one, then all have to be recorded. The UGC team will be able to better clarify this query regarding the actual conversion formula.

On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 12:28 PM Dr Uzzal Sharma <druzza...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Sir,

Thank you so much for your clarificaion.

As per UGC guidelines 2018, we can clain research score for contributing in MOOC. I am attaching the guidelines for your reference. Please see in page no. 105 of the guidelines. Now my question is if I contribute a video lecture (as it is a part of the first quadrant) in a MOOC's course of a state open university, can I claim 5 points? (Please see the highlighted portion of the regulation, pageno. 105.). I shall be very hapy to get some clarification about this.