NITTTR Courses

Academic and Research Report

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Academic and research report writing is an essential activity for a contemporary teacher in institutes of higher education. It is a fact that a modern teacher has to play a variety of roles apart from that of an academic instructor. Research is one of such major activities for them. Publication of research findings is an integral part of research. Therefore, it is necessary for a teacher / researcher to learn and apply principles and techniques of report writing for effective dissemination of the academic and research findings. This course intends to introduce the learner to the principles, techniques and tools of academic and research report writing. After successful completion of this course the learner will be able to write reports on various academic activities including research effectively and efficiently.

Advanced Instructional Methods

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The Commonly used instructional methods in Indian educational institutes are lecture, demonstrations, projects, laboratory, field experiences etc. These methods offer very limited opportunities for catering to individual student’s preferences, learning styles for achieving the intended the programme level outcomes for making a person employable.A large number of other instructional methods, termed as “Advanced Instructional Method” in this course, enable learning in higher level cognitive domain and in affective domain through group based techniques, use of creativity techniques and offer opportunity of active learning through collaboration. The information and communication technology facilitates not only the use of group work and techniques for immediate learner’s responses of remotely located learners in web based modes but also offers customized learning and standardized learning resources to individual both synchronously and asynchronously. Recently virtual graphical learning environments have been introduced for learning of complex concepts through AR/VR technology. This course deals with advanced methods that offer opportunities as described above.The selection of instructional method(s) depends on factors such as learning outcomes, target group characteristics, time available and administrative factors. ICT based methods are becoming more and more popular as the IT infrastructure in becoming stronger and cost effective and very critically restricting conditions in the recent pandemic situation. This course is intended to provide you an exposure to various advanced instructional methods through several video lectures, video demonstrations, text content, discussion forum, assignments, and self-assessment tools. Summative assessment will make you earn the credit and course completion certificate. The learning effort required by the teachers for this course is 20 hours, which will include studying the e-content and related videos, completing activities and assignments. The final Assessment and certification will be based attainment in on Internal Assessment (30%) and proctored examination ( 70%).

Managing Learning Resources

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Information represented, accessible, or stored in a variety of media and formats that helps learning are Learning Resource Materials. It includes books, electronic & printed journals, web resources, audio visual materials, social media, learning objects and newspapers, databases, digital and printed archives & special collections. That is, it is a collection of information stored in a way that facilitates learning. Managing these learning resources at different levels needs to consider various parameters such as proper planning, organization, technology etc. to support principles of resource based teaching and learning. These parameters are very crucial to consider in the initial decisions on learning resources management; otherwise, one cannot expect to get utilized fully these resources. But the creating such a vast learning resources needs investment. To maximize utilization of resources with minimum investment, one needs to follow thoughtful and skilled management strategy. Managing such type of resources is an ongoing process which varies from one part to another but all designated people have to play a major role in managing these resources. Whole process can be classified into four categories and they are (a) acquisition which includes budgeting, purchasing, and binding (b) organization and maintenance which includes cataloguing and processing, accessing; intellectual, physical, digital and assessing, (c) circulation that considers automation and security and (d) promotion.

Laboratory and Workshop Management

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The classroom learning emphasizes on understanding of theories while practical in the laboratory and workshop learning need to play very important roles for the students who study technical courses. Laboratory and workshops are amazing learning environments which provide students with real life opportunities to implement theoretical knowledge. The laboratory and workshop classes bridges between theory and practice. In accordance to it management issues, the practice classes are to be taken care of for better understanding. This course explains management issues of laboratory and workshops in conducting practical classes.

Student Psychology - January 2021

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According to John Adams, “Teacher should know John as well as Latin”. Here John means student and Latin means content of the teaching. Therefore, it is necessary for the teachers to know about the Students’ Psychology in terms of their Abilities, Interest, Attitudes, Needs, Stages of Development and previous level of Learning. This course will help teachers in understanding the Psychology of the Technical Students so that it will help them to redefine their classroom activities in this technology era.

OER for Empowering Teachers

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This course on OER, Open Educational Resource, is meant to create awareness among teachers to the freely available high-quality online instructional resources. OER are openly licensed online educational materials that offer an extraordinary opportunity for teachers everywhere to share, use, and reuse knowledge. It is a must for teachers to utilize these resources to enhance students learning outcomes, greater flexibility for students in the form of diverse pathways, greater flexibility for teachers to customize instructional materials and lower production costs. Thus, this course aims to promote student-centric pedagogy, and lifelong learning. Activities are included to find and publish openly licensed content for teaching and learning purpose. Total study time anticipated is between 20-30 hours in 4 weeks with equivalence to 2 credits 

FUNDAMENTALS OF OUTCOME-BASED CURRICULUM IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION

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This course will prepare the teachers and aspiring teachers to understand the fundamental aspects of curriculum development i.e. curriculum planning, curriculum design, curriculum implementation and curriculum evaluation. For any given learning outcome, teachers may choose among a wide range of instructional methods in the total instructional plan, and effective teachers look for an appropriate match between the content to be taught and strategies for teaching that content. The selection of effective instructional method(s) depends on many factors such as learning outcomes, group size, its level, and time available.COURSE LAYOUTTo prepare the participants (means teachers or potential teacher) to plan for design of outcome-based engineering curricula to fulfill the need of the industry/society by comprehending different curriculum approaches.Module - 1: Introduction to Curriculum Development in Engineering Education Module - 2: Overview of Curriculum Development Process in Engineering Education Module - 3: Outcome-based Curriculum (OBC) in Engineering Education. A variety of instructional strategies and methods will be used in this course such as, videos, power point presentations, self-learning opportunities, examples and non-examples, discussion fora, doubt clarifications, and different kinds of learning activities. You will also be getting enough opportunities to assess your own learning on various aspects of curriculum development processes especially with respect to outcome-based engineering curriculum.

Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching

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This course is highly imperative to hone the pedagogical skills of faculty members in the specific area of importance and it is directed towards having a greater insight about the fundamentals of blended and flipped classroom. This teaching learning instructional model is growing in popularity throughout the world, due to active involvement of learners in the process and it is ultimately student centric approach. As a result, students are actively involved in knowledge construction as they participate in and evaluate their learning in a manner that is personally meaningful. It is wise to embrace this pedagogical approach which makes paradigm shift in the instructional design and delivery. Among the student community, classroom / lecture session are seen as extremely stressful phase, it is attributed mainly due to lack in the quality/clarity of lectures, lecturer’s ability to engage/entertain, availability of learning resource material, no scope for comprehending difficult concepts, no usage of demos etc.,. How to ease the process among the student community will be discussed in this training programme and in turn it will pave the way to active involvement of students in the classroom. Scientifically designed classroom instruction will enable students to get conceptual clarity, rational thinking ability and focus towards practical application. Thus, this course will describe the main elements of flipped classroom, propose good practice approaches and empower faculty members with nuances of scientifically designing blended and flipped classroom.In general faculty members who hear about flipped learning/teaching, thinks it is just flipping of classroom or inverted approach and providing access to resource material.Does it really towards inverting the classroom?Does the faculty really visualized how the implementation of flipped teaching could maximize learning among students?Does it just uploading educational video content into online portal, if not what exactly it is?This course will provide answer to the above mentioned questions through scientifically designed programme and in turn faculty members will erase the ambiguity that exist about the flipped classroom. It highlights the changing roles of both faculty members and students in the flipped classroom, in addition to the narrative approach necessary for the co-construction of shared understandings. The model maximize the time faculty members have with learners/students.

Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching - January 2021

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The “Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching” is an online SWAYAM NITTT course specially designed and developed for the AICTE Technical Teacher Training Module. The course is structured to provide interactive MOOC learning experience to the faculty members and also to develop an understanding of how technology enhances and transforms classroom instruction. Integrating and infusing technologies into classroom teaching is a challenging task and its understanding is important for both teachers and students. Technology enabled teaching learning facilitates in differentiated instruction, since we are aware “one size doesn’t fit all”. Despite of your ICT literacy, this course will help you course will help you in leveraging your teaching strengths and find the approach that is right for you, your students and your educational context. Thus, the course facilitates and guide in the instructional planning through technology. You will have the opportunity to develop your understanding of effective online teaching practices and their relationship to the use of different technologies in connecting CONTENT to the CONTEXT. You will also be encouraged to progressively design and reflect upon your own online learning activity, assessment or resource for use in your own class if you choose to undertake the course assignments. The course is structured with experiential sharing, input from the experts and interviewees from the stake holders. Through many examples and case studies, the participants will be exposed how to create technology enhanced instruction for their students and what to address when designing these experiences. More specifically, in this course participants will be exploring to find answers for the following questions:How classroom instruction needs to be structured for the current generation learners?What does research evidence tell us about integrating ICT tools in classroom instruction?Identify and understand the range of technology enabled teaching implementation models?How blended learning provides shift in instruction, roles, and technology integration.Review the availability of technology for the blended & flipped classroom.How can we ensure that this instructional design will help our students achieve their intended learning outcomes?What pedagogic options do we have to make our teaching successful?What assessment and feedback practices can help our students learn more effectively?Explore various management techniques to create safe and ethical technology enabled learning environments that includes social collaboration.Examine the challenges associated with technology enabled teaching learning implementation and how you can address these challenges.

Capstone Project

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The dictionary meaning of ‘Capstone’ is the greatest achievement. Therefore a capstone project is considered to be an important milestone in any professional programme. Final year students’ project in conventional technical curriculum is generally constrained to cognitive domain of knowledge only, whereas a capstone project takes care of cognitive, psychomotor and affective domain of knowledge leading to a tangible product or process. A capstone project enables the learner to design, develop and troubleshoot a problem. The primary goal of capstone project course is to provide an opportunity to the learner to integrate principles, theories, skills already acquired during their studies in previous courses included in the programme and encourage them to conduct complex, open-ended project for solving real world problems. Capstone project may be of various types like i) Social, ii) Entrepreneurial or iii) Technology – focused. This on-line course will focus on various aspects of technology-based capstone projects and will help the professionals, particularly the serving and would be technical teachers to provide guidance to learner’s capstone projects.

Learning Management System _ MOODLE - January, 2022

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The widespread adoption of Learning Management System (LMS) in education environment has been creating lot of opportunities for educationalists. It provides structured delivery and management of instructional resources, organized way of assessment to check the achievement of learning goals, tracking the progress of the learner, and providing the necessary information to the management about the teaching-learning process. The LMS can be implemented through different software framework. Among the different frameworks, Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment (MOODLE) is a Web-based platform for Teaching - Learning / Training programs. MOODLE allows teachers to organize and store course content in a secure web-based environment in-which their students can access from anywhere at any time. It is a popular and secure learning management system for the development and delivery of course activities and resources. Teachers can post, collect, and grade assignments, administer quizzes, host online discussions, share resources, and more. This course delivers the complete demonstration of MOODLE LMS application.

Learning and Instruction

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This is a foundation course for potential and practicing teachers. Learning is a term, which we use most commonly. Infants and children learn day to day activities and skills, the desirable ways of behavior and communication skills, which are important for their everyday living. In this process their elder brothers and sisters, parents and other adults in the family help them, this is informal learning. Later they go to school and learn in a formal situation. It means that we learn informally, when we interact with our family members and also formally in an educational institute. Learning takes place through our own experiences and under the guidance of others. However, in this Course, the focus is on formal teaching - learning process that takes place in an educational institution, under the supervision of a teacher and professionals, which is guided by the curriculum to achieve the pre-decided learning outcomes.The role of teachers is very crucial in teaching learning process. They are responsible for designing the instructional process keeping in mind the psychology of learners on one side and the effective pedagogical techniques on the other side The teachers facilitate the process of learning, they take care of the individual differences among learners and also ensure that they are able to achieve the pre-decided learning outcomes, which may be in Cognitive, Affective and Psychomotor domains of learningIt is expected that the teachers, complete this course in 20 hours duration, which is spread over six weeks. A variety of instructional methods have been used in this course, video presentations, activities and assignments, discussion forum and assessment. After completion of this MOOCs course, the teachers will be able to:Suggest activities for classroom / Lab instruction sessions in view of principles of learning derived from various perspectivesManage variables affecting the process of learning to enhance effectivenessSuggest strategies to address the different learning styles of learners.Formulate learning outcomes in the related discipline at different taxonomic levels of Cognitive, Affective and Psychomotor domainsPrepare an instructional plan based on events of instruction 

Question Paper Authoring and Student Evaluation

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Question Paper Authoring and Student Evaluation is an online SWAYAM course specially designed and developed for all the Teachers around the globe. The main theme this MOOC is that the assessment of learning plays an important role in the instructional process and that its effectiveness depends heavily on the ability of teachers to construct and select tests and assessments procedures that provide valid measures of learning outcomes. This MOOC is structured to provide interactive learning experien ce to the faculty members and also to develop an understanding of how to assess the students in-terms diagnostic, formative, and summative assessment. The assessment would provide 360-degree feedback of the student in connection to quantitative as well as qualitative performance. The assessment practices must give the clarity between learning versus scoring. Since, assessment gives the feedback to the faculty members about their instructional strategies, it helps to plan and improve the Instructional strategies scientifically. So, this MOOC helps to the faculty member to gather information about the impact of instructional strategies and how well the student learned subject. Further, assessment and evaluation provide pathway to improve the institution as whole.

Research in Technical Education - January 2021

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Technical education system has shown tremendous growth during the last two decades and quality of technical education system is under criticism. The various sub-components of the system namely, input, curriculum and instructional processes, output, resources, management etc. need improvement. For introducing changes in the system, data and information need to be systematically gathered, analyzed and interpreted. In other words, systematic research needs to be undertaken. Educational research can provide laudable support to teachers in various aspects of teaching-learning and other related activities undertaken by them. Undertaking or conducting research involves formulating research proposal, organizing and conducting research, writing research report and evaluating research. The course on “Research in Technical Education: aims at enabling the learners to acquire the capabilities of selecting and defining research problem, describing the methodology of research, collecting the data and analyzing and interpreting the results to conduct the research effectively.

E-content Development - January, 2022

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With the advent of Internet and world wide web (www), the access to information has become very easy and the entire world is moving towards digitization. Twenty first century students learn in a global classroom and not necessarily within four walls. They are more inclined to find information by accessing the Internet through mobile phones and computers, or chatting with friends on a social networking site. The advancements in technology and the plethora of powerful and innovative digital devices and tools have a great potential to improve educational outcomes. Educators must understand that the use of digital content and devices will improve teaching and learning and thus enhance educational opportunities and benefit the Millennial. This course on E-content development is meant to understand the meaning and standards of E-content, learning objects, designing and development of digital resources for teaching and learning. Thus this course aims in providing the knowledge and skill for teachers to cater to present day learners and their learning styles.Total study time anticipated is between 40 - 45 hours in 8 weeks (including watching video films) with equivalence to 3 credits.