MTNC SDP 2020

Online Student Development Programme

on

"Online Learning Platforms"

(04.06.2020 - 06.06.2020)

Organized

By

PG & Research Department of Commerce,

Mannar Thirumalai Naicker College,

Madurai - 625004, Tamil Nadu.

About the SDP

Due to the recent pandemic situation, the learners and teachers are urged to adapt online learning platforms.

This Student Development Programme will focus on different applications that keep the learners motivated for online learning.

Objectives

To enhance the learners to adapt online learning by enriching their knowledge on various online platforms / applications

Online Learning Platform - Meaning

An online learning platform is an integrated set of interactive online services that provide trainers, learners, and others involved in education with information, tools and resources to support and enhance learning, education delivery and management.

Instruction to the Participants

Go through with the theory and video contents of all the days
Assessment questions are asked from all the three day contents.
Kindly use your headphones
Enable landscape view in your mobile phones while watching the shared videos.

DAY 1 - Introduction

Day 1 - Introduction Slides

DAY 1 - Google Apps - An Overview

Click - Day 1 - Google Apps - An Overview

DAY 1 - Google Docs

Google docs is a document writing and editing web application under google drive developed by Google. It means you can create documents, edit .doc files (Microsoft word files), write letters, create reports, newsletter, banners, brochures and almost anything that you need for official works. It means google docs is a word processing software application and the functionality is similar to Microsoft Word. If you’re unable to purchase Microsoft Word, or need alternative or prime solutions for official documentation then you can use google docs. The parent application of google docs is google drive. It’s available for every Gmail user.

Explanatory Videos:

Click - Day 1 Google Docs Explanatory Video

DAY 1 - Google Slides

Google Slides is a presentation program included as part of a free, web-based software office suite offered by Google within its Google Drive service.

Google Slides is a presentation tool that allows you to make both online and offline presentations.

Click Day 2 - Google Slides Explanatory Video

DAY 1 - Google Forms & Google Spreadsheets

Google Forms is a survey administration app that is included in the Google Drive office suite along with Google Docs and Google Slides. Google Forms is a web-based app used to create forms for data collection purposes. Students and teachers can use Google Forms to make surveys, quizzes, or event registration sheets. The form is web-based and can be shared with respondents by sending a link, emailing a message, or embedding it into a web page or blog post. Data gathered using the form is typically stored in a spreadsheet.

If you know how to use Excel, you'll feel at home in Google Spreadsheets. It includes almost all of the same functions of Microsoft Excel. It works from any device, with mobile apps for iOS and Android along with its web-based core app. Google Sheets is free, and it's bundled with Google Drive, Docs, and Slides to share files, documents, and presentations online.

Click - Day 1 - Google Forms & Google Spreadsheets - Explanatory Video

DAY 1 - Google Sites - Make your own website without coding

With Google Sites, your team has the ability to quickly publish a robust internal web site on which to gather all sorts of shared information, such as documents, spreadsheets, presentations, files, and videos. You can even embed Google calendars and other gadgets on your site!

Students can use Google Sites to:

Create a relevant product to share their learning.
Build a website to present a science fair project.
Create a personal e-portfolio of their work.
Collaborate and share ideas with other students for group work and peer tutoring.
Build a website for their research project and publish for the world to see

Click - Day 1 - Google Slides - Explanatory Video

DAY 2 - Introduction

Video presentation tools have been mushrooming in recent years since there is great demand for engaging personalized content in education, business training and knowledge transfer of any kind.

This day 2 session will demonstrate some basic and simple software applications to create your presentation videos.

DAY 2 - Presentation Tube Recorder

Presentation Tube Screen Recorder is a simple tool designed to help instructors, students and business professionals record their screens and PowerPoint presentations from the comfort of home and without the need to have Internet connection while recording. The Recorder synchronizes the presenter's audio and video, PowerPoint slides, drawings, handwritten words and generates videos ready for uploading to the Presentation Tube network. With visual aids, like the drawing board, presenters can draw lines, curves, graphs, and shapes on the screen to emphasize or clarify their ideas, so the demonstration can be clearer. The whiteboard helps presenters to type text while presenting using the keyboard making it an ideal tool to add more details, or explain equations using words, numbers, and symbols.

Click - Explanatory Video on Presentation Tube Recorder

DAY 2 - Photo Story 3

Microsoft Photo Story lets you create slideshows using your digital photos very easily. The application is basic but it will allow you to undertake simple editing techniques such as touch-up, crop, or rotate pictures. You can add some special effects, soundtracks, and also your own voice narration to your photo stories.

Click - Explanatory Video on Photostory 3

DAY 2 - AZ Screen Recorder

AZ Screen Recorder is an app to record everything that happens on the screen of your Android device without having to have the device rooted.

Click - Explanatory Video on AZ Screen Recorder

DAY 2 - List of Some Software Applications to make Presentations

Open Broadcasting Software

Powtoon

Plotagon

Screencastify

Screencast-o-matic

Zentation

DAY 3 - Introduction

UGC has approved simultaneous dual degrees for students but one has to be through the regular mode and the other has to be through online distance learning. This day three session will provide the details of online courses and open educational resources for self equipping purpose.

DAY 3 - Open Educational Resources (OER)

Open educational resources are freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes.

The term OER describes publicly accessible materials and resources for any user to use, re-mix, improve and redistribute under some licenses.

The development and promotion of open educational resources is often motivated by a desire to provide an alternate or enhanced educational paradigm

There are a great many platforms which provide extensively, the latest and quality content material for you to develop a comprehensive and knowledge-based course.

Since there are numerous open educational resource examples and categories exist. According to the level of functionality offered by the open educational resources website, there are three major categories of open educational resources:

Directories – These provide a list of OER and links to resources which are available elsewhere on the Web
Platforms – Specific digital tools designed to “do” something with the OER
Repositories – Databases or collection of OER, usually ones developed by a particular institution.

Links of Some Open Educational Resources

Google Books - https://books.google.com/?hl=en

Gutenberg ebooks - www.gutenberg.org

Swayam Prabha - www.swayamprabha.gov.in

Khan Academy - https://www.khanacademy.org/

Open Access ebooks - https://www.openaccessebooks.com/

eGyanKosh - http://www.egyankosh.ac.in/

MIT OpenCourseware - https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

Open Textbook Library - https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/

Openstax CNX - https://cnx.org/

OER Commons - www.oercommons.org

Community College Consortium for OER - https://www.cccoer.org/learn/find-oer/

Directory of Open Access Repositories (Open DOAR) - http://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/opendoar/

Oasis - https://oasis.geneseo.edu/

Skill Commons - https://www.skillscommons.org/

SPARC's Connect OER - https://sparcopen.org/our-work/connect-oer/

Academic Earth - http://academicearth.org/

Commonwealth of Learning - http://www.col.org/

CSTC (Computing Science Teaching Center) - http://www.cstc.org/

Wisconsin Online Resource Center - http://www.wisc-online.com/

Wikiwijs - http://www.wikiwijs.nl/

UNITRACC - http://www.unitracc.com/

University of Leicester OER Repository - http://www2.le.ac.uk/projects/oer

RRU Open Educational Resources - http://oer.royalroads.ca/moodle/

The Le@rning Federation - http://www.ndlrn.edu.au/default.asp

The world lecture project - http://www.world-lecture-project.org/

OpenLearn - http://www.open.edu/openlearn

Phet (Physics Education Technology) - http://phet.colorado.edu/en/

Restore - http://www.restore.ac.uk

DAY 3 - Online Courses

This is the age of skill development. Government has introduced the Skill India initiative to develop a skilled workforce in India. These days, employers not only look for a sound academic background. They also check if the candidate possesses useful skills.

Skill Development Matters

This is the age of skill development. Government has introduced the Skill India initiative to develop a skilled workforce in India.

These days, employers not only look for a sound academic background. They also check if the candidate possesses useful skills.

Online courses are skill-enhancing in nature. They are designed to impart new skills in students. Such programs also offer us a chance to upgrade our skills.

Skills acquired through online courses could help us land that dream job. It could also help us land that elusive promotion!

In this age of cut-throat competition, it is difficult to stay ahead of competitors. Advanced skills will help one stand apart from the crowd. You’ll be able to find numerous institutes and websites offering online courses.

ADVANTAGES OF ONLINE COURSES

Here are some of the main advantages offered by online courses –

Helps acquire useful skills and knowledge

One can access courses from anywhere with an internet connection

Flexible learning hours

Obtain certificates on course completion

They help get skill based jobs

They help one improve his/her resume

They help one upgrade his/her skills

Availability of ample amount of websites and institutes offering online courses

LIST OF SOME WEBSITES OFFERING ONLINE COURSES

Swayam Central - swayam.gov.in