NPTEL Workshop: Transition to Online Facilitation by Jayakrishnan M https://padlet.com/jkm/nptel_eof Made for teachers who want to move from Emergency Response Teaching to Effective Online Facilitation en-us 2020-04-30 06:48:47 UTC 2020-07-08 06:57:52 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4e1.png Introductory Live session jkm https://padlet.com/jkm/nptel_eof/wish/541120482 To know more about the modalities of workshop and its registration process, please see the adjacent post]]> 2020-04-30 07:30:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jkm/nptel_eof/wish/541120482 More details about the Workshop jkm https://padlet.com/jkm/nptel_eof/wish/542270690 The registration to the current edition of the workshop is closed now. We have completed short listing of the 200 participants and an email has been sent to them. Once the 200 people confirm their participation, we will be putting up the list of participants here. 

Is the Workshop different from the Live Session
Yes, it is. The workshop will have more hands on activities and will encourage learners to do reflection on the practices that they learn and apply.

Is the Workshop done by NPTEL team? I do not see any official brochure or notification in the website.
Yes, this workshop is officially organized by NPTEL. Dr. Jayakrishnan is a Senior Scientist with NPTEL and is a resource person who has conducted many such workshops. This is an attempt from NPTEL to use his expertise in the area of Online Teaching-Learning to provide support to faculty from Local Chapters in the process of Online facilitation of learning.
We had purposefully not designed a brochure for this event, as 
  1. We wanted to first try out a pilot of using a cMOOC type effort under the regular NPTEL banner
  2. This initial effort will be a Proof of Concept of whether a Professional Learning Community will get generated to sustain this effort further

What are the steps for registration for the workshop?
1. Watch the full live session
2. We will be sharing a registration form towards the end of the session
3. Fill out the details in the registration form
4. Based on the received details, we will be shortlisting 200 people and they will be intimated.

Will there be assessments during the actual workshop?
  • There will be continuous evaluation of the workshop participants through Weekly Online Assessments (75% weightage)
  • There will be a workshop project that will be peer evaluated (25% weightage)

Will there be certificate for participants who complete the workshop?
  • Participants who score 40% in both Online Assessments AND Project will get a workshop completion certificate
  • Participants who do not secure this will not get any certificate

Will there be certificate for participants who’ attend the live session?
  • NO. The live session is like basic overview about the workshop and we are not monitoring attendance for this session.
]]> 2020-04-30 15:19:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jkm/nptel_eof/wish/542270690 Transition to Online Facilitation - Format and Content of Week1 jkm https://padlet.com/jkm/nptel_eof/wish/553746015 The workshop course will formally start at 6 PM today.

PLEASE NOTE
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We will be adding the shortlisted participants to a MOODLE Course. The shortlisted participants will receive an invitation email to the registered email addresses that they have provided.
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Those who have not been shortlisted will receive a mail regarding the rejection by 11-May-2020.
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The workshop this week will deal with the following content:
1. Creating a Digital Journal of your own learning
2. Creating Screencasts
3. Communication Channels using Slack
4. Focusing on Curation (over Creation)

We will be uploading the resource materials that we share with workshop participants in this Padlet at the end of each week.

Preliminary Reference materials
1. Resource Page of Educational Technology Department at IIT Bombay for transition to Online Learning - http://www.et.iitb.ac.in/online-Teaching.html
2. NPTEL Special Lecture Series Talk on "Use of Technology in Educational Content Development" -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qupLaOdnrG8

Additional Reference Materials
 1. An article that talks about Bandwidth vs Immediacy of educational content creation for Online Facilitation - https://www.iddblog.org/videoconferencing-alternatives-how-low-bandwidth-teaching-will-save-us-all/
2. Steps in planning and creating Screencast using screencast-o-matic - https://youtu.be/RH7yzd-7A88
3. Examples of course journal -  https://drvakulkarni.wordpress.com/fdp101x/
4. Institutional practices to maintain standardised resources - https://www.witsolapur.org/plcresources.php]]> 2020-05-06 04:44:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jkm/nptel_eof/wish/553746015 Answers to question regarding acceptance and short listing criteria jkm https://padlet.com/jkm/nptel_eof/wish/559864709 Being the fifth year since inception of NPTEL Local Chapters, we have a host of activities that we have planned for Local Chapters. The first activity in this list was the workshop on Transition to Online Facilitation. We understand that there are many confusions regarding this workshop in all of your mind, so here is a detailed clarification on the workshop and questions that you are having.

1. Many people from my LC had registered for the workshop, but we did not get any confirmation/rejection message yet.
We had a total of 2364 applications out of which we have shortlisted 200. The confirmation emails have been sent, but we have received acceptance from 90+ participants till now. We have not started sending the rejection messages but you can expect to receive them starting from Monday when we will formally close enrollment.

2. What is the criteria for shortlisting? Nothing has been specified regarding this.
The major criteria that we looked at was to ensure that there were participants from different colleges. So we have not considered more than 2 participants from an LC. Also, if the learner has already participated in the FDPs conducted via IITBombayX then we have not considered that application as the skill sets/competences that are expected at the end of the workshop is not different. The next criteria that was used for short listing candidates is if the same person has been nominated from the LC by other participants. Finally we have looked into the SoP given by the participant and considered an equitable distribution of experienced and novice users of technology tools.  

3. The workshop was scheduled start at 6 PM on 6th May. But there was no link given regarding the session in the confirmation email.
The workshop is an Online Course and this is hosted in MOODLE Platform. The MOODLE platform link has been sent to each of you. If you have not received that email, kindly contact Dr. Jayakrishnan (jkm@nptel.iitm.ac.in)

4. I have not received a confirmation yet. And I am assuming that my application has not been shortlisted. I do not want certificate, but can I get access to the workshop course? This will help me learn on my own.
All the contents of the workshop is provided weekly in this Padlet. You can access the content from the Padlet and learn.

5. Will there be a similar workshop in the future?
This is our pilot attempt to try and build a sustainable Professional Learning Community. Based on the outcome of this effort, we are planning to offer more such workshops in the future. Please keep a lookout for the announcement regarding the same from our end.
]]> 2020-05-08 14:06:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jkm/nptel_eof/wish/559864709 Transition to Online Facilitation - Content and Format of Week 2 jkm https://padlet.com/jkm/nptel_eof/wish/604220872 In the second week of the course we discussed the idea of creation of Learning Dialogues as against just plain video creation.

The mandatory video content for the week are:
1. What is a Learning Dialogue (LeD)?
2. What is Chunking?
3. Adding Reflection Spots
4. Takeaways on LeDs

The activity of this week focused on participants creating their own LeDs and reviewing their peers LeDs.

For those interested, we had also additional resources on:
1. Best Practices of LeD creation - Video 1, Video 2, Video 3
2. H5P website that helps in creation of interactive videos]]> 2020-06-01 07:22:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jkm/nptel_eof/wish/604220872 Transition to Online Facilitation - Content and Format of Week 3 jkm https://padlet.com/jkm/nptel_eof/wish/604260388 Week 3 of the workshop focused on community building through Slack and Jit.si. Participants were divided into 10 groups and in each group we had appointed moderators/facilitators. Throughout the week we focused on onboarding the group members to Slack. There was a "Session on Slack" by using the Slack workspace itself.

An analogy used for explaining how Slack works is given below:
Institution <--> Slack Workspace (neof.slack.com)
Rooms <--> Channels
Auditorium/Public Gathering Room <--> Public Channels (#training , #general , #random )
Classrooms/Private Rooms <--> Private Channels (group-specific-channels)
Structured/Systematic Communication <--> Use of threads (by replying to posts)
Unstructured/Chaotic communication <--> Use of individual posts alone

You can also refer to the official Slack tutorial]]> 2020-06-01 07:50:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jkm/nptel_eof/wish/604260388