1. Instructional design for e-content
Status report from India
Sandhya Kode
Chief Mentor and Director (EnhanceEdu),
Director, Training and Development, Center for
Education Technology and Learning Sciences (CETLS),
IIIT Hyderabad

2. Agenda
• The Indian context
• Our approach
• The outreach and impact
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3. Context – academic perspective
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4. Context – learner perspective
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5. Context – industry perspective
Map real world problems to programs
Map real world problems to programs
Adapt to new technologies
Adapt to new technologies
Communicate effectively on the job
Communicate effectively on the job
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6. How can we address these
perspectives?
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7. Three phase approach
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8. Phase I
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9. Methodology:
Learning by Doing
• A great way to learn something is to do it
– By doing
– Simulated real-world problems
• How do you learn to be good at something?
– By doing it
– and doing it with real life examples
• Constructivist approach
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10. I hear, I forget
I see, I remember
I do, I understand
- Confucius
Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC)
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11. Considering …
• Learning styles
– Personalization of content
– Providing multi-modal resources
• Higher order thinking skills (HOTS) of the Bloom’s taxonomy
– Real-world problems aimed at analysis, evaluation and
synthesis
• Learner expertise
Leading to ...
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12. Butterfly model
Expert video lectures Mathematical proofs
Additional learning
material
Static animations
Evolution of the
Real world problems concept/s
Dynamic animations Motivation for the
next concept
Setting the
expectations
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14. UNDER THE AEGIS OF THE
NATIONAL MISSION ON
EDUCATION THROUGH ICT
(NMEICT)
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15. e-courses developed
• Principles of Information Security (PIS)
• Data structures (DS)
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17. e-assessment tool
• Prototype text based evaluator tool
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18. e-courses in the works
Computer Science Domain Electronics Domain
• Advanced Data mining techniques • Analog Design
• Data mining and Data warehousing • Computer Organization with ARM
• E-Governance • Design Automation for VLSI
• Operating Systems • Digital Logic Design
• Pattern Recognition • Digital Processor Design using Verilog
• Social Networking • Embedded Systems
• Web and Text mining • Solid State Electronics Devices
• Topics in Embedded Systems
• VLSI Architectures
• VLSI Design and Design for Testability
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19. Having content does not imply use ...
Phase II: Teacher training program
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20. Phase II
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21. How we do the training
• Institutional buy-in and support
– Engage all stakeholders
– Manage change
• Training the faculty - Holistic approach
– Engage fully in training
– Embrace the learning by doing methodology
– Adopt a personalized mentoring approach
– Learn to implement the program at their college
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22. Faculty response
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23. Short workshops –
our experience
• Designed workshops for 1-10 days in LBD mode
• Conducted workshops
– Wiki Day
– Moodle Day
– Art of Teaching
– Joy of Teaching
– Advanced courses
– Linux
– Other open source workshops
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24. Phase III
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25. Taking it to the students
• Continued institutional support
• Flipping the classroom
• Providing the content on a LMS (MOODLE)
– Forum support
• Faculty as mentors
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27. IMPACT
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28. Outreach
• Over 60 engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh
– Affiliated to
• JNTU Kakinada, Hyderabad and Anantapur
• Kakatiya university
• Osmania universityKU, OU universities
– Including 8 autonomous colleges
• Over 100 colleges in India
– Covering 30+ universities
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29. Teachers trained
Training Program Duration in days Teachers trained
Wiki day and Moodle day 1 – 2 days 1925
Art of teaching 2 days 49
Joy of teaching 10 days 55
Advanced courses 5 - 10 days 266
Other offerings 1-3 days 1659
Over 3000+ students trained
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30. Teacher performance
• An average increase of 16.5% in faculty members’
ratings by students
– Based on pre and post TTP faculty evaluations at colleges
for a random sample of 98 faculty
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31. Students
• 15%- 66% improvement observed in placements
at 4 partner colleges
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32. Conclusion
• Working towards a sustainable education system by
– Producing excellent content
– Inspiring learners by providing personalization
– Creating an environment that fosters innovation to better
the future
– Forging a synergy between industry and colleges to
enhance student employability and industry capacity
• Looking for collaboration with enablers of this
paradigm shift …
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33. Thank You
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