Practical issues like arranging equipment

[smi...@sims.edu]

Every institute may not yet have a team of people to look into creation of MOOCs. 

It is difficult at times not possible to do it indipendantly. 

[Mala Elango]

Yes it is a very important factor that prevents people from creating MOOCs. It would be helpful if it is made mandatory that each institute should have a setup that aids the creation of MOOC. All activities required cannot be carried out without proper support.

[Moderator Sandeep Patil]

Personally sharing my experience. I was selected for UNESCO OE4BW project wherein I needed to develop and conduct a MOOC. It was the period of summer and I had no associate to help me. But I was determined to do it. Hence it was my family members who helped in recording videos and assisting me in other things in this attempt. 

So I think what we need the most is the self determination to develop a MOOC. The scarcity of infrastructure and human resource can be overcome if we have the determination to do it. 

[Smita Mehendale]

That sounds a bit philosophical to me...though I appreciate you pulled it off ...But with help from family...sometimes that may not be available too. What I mean here is to implement something well we need a support system. Especially this is not a one off project.Its going to be a part of our top agenda as academicians ....

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[Ashish Jadhav]

I think that for good quality MOOCs content we need professional equipment and professional team that an educational institute should invest in. But, mobile phones/cameras and cheap  youtubing equipment is available nowadays, and reasonable quality videos can be created easily with some help from colleagues and students in an institute. We have many video post processing freeware video editors that are easy to use, that can further be used to tweak the quality.

[S Zorinliana]

Very true that without proper infrastructural support, making MOOCs is not easy. the concept of MOOCs has to be supported by as many faculty as possible so that whatever investment is required is put to good use.

On Saturday, February 8, 2020 at 7:11:20 AM UTC+5:30, smi...@sims.edu wrote:

[Esa Bose]

I agree with Maám. Not only all the interested faculty members do not always have adequate equipment for shooting the videos, the post production part gets more difficult. Being an assistant professor in a private engineering college, I have made videos for students to be used as sources for flipped classroom, even if I have shot the videos with my own camera etc, editing it later on was very tiresome.

So, preparing an entire LcM must be a combined process of the Institute and the faculty members. 

[jyothi v]

i agree with this view..i can share an experience wherein a senior colleague of mine in our department told me she recorded key concepts of a tough topic (epidemiology which our undergraduate medical students were finding difficult)  and then shared the short video by whatsapp to them...improvisations can be possible if one lacks the expensive infrastructure needed.