Dr. Jini Subhash Deshmane
Assistant Professor,
Smt. Kasturbai Walchand College,
Sangli, MH
05/05/2020
Hello Everyone,
Here I would like to share my feelings in the form of Feedback of Faculty Development Programme on MOOCs, organised by Ramanujan College, Delhi. Truly, when I apply to this course it was in my mind that yes in this time of compulsory relaxation (Due to COVID-19), let’s do something new. Two things were behind this thought: one is after completion we will get a certificate and secondly time will spend in learning something new.
Of course, most of us may not have any idea like me what will be in the course. What kind of course will be? From the above said reasons of joining the course the other side of coin I have seen that. Everybody is attracted to new things like a child; I am also one of them. When this lockdown was started on social media the sets of questionnaires were moving mobile to mobile. I wonder, in my mind I was thinking that I was also able to form this kind of questionnaire online, which will help me to share it with my dear students for practice purposes. It’s like my dream come true, yes! Now I am also able to form such kinds of forms (Google forms) . It is only because of this FDP and day by day this FDP shares with us the wonderful surprises in the form of online teaching learning tools. Wow! Such a great experience I had. I created my Google classroom and assigned some assignments to students and students replied positively to that assignment, and this is nothing but the success of this FDP, No doubt.
Now, I can create my videos related to the topics and shared to Google classroom. Yes, sometimes students are listening to us in the physical classroom. They just come for attendance, nothing else (in my point of view and it’s about some students). But this Google classroom is a fantastic solution to those who are not interested in physical classroom work or just to be present in class for their attendance. Those students definitely will take part in the online teaching and learning process and this will be our 100% success.
When I assigned them an assignment around 95 students attended that quiz and scored more. It works. This is nothing but the success of this FDP. We learn and we apply that knowledge which we got from this FDP and got interesting results.
Also we can think from the learner's point of view that what is the need of this era, what is in their mind and how we can reach everyone. The solution is this online teaching and learning, if we all learn this aspect of pedagogy every student will participate in teaching.
There are so many different ways of this online teaching and learning, very few of them we learnt but this is only because of this FDP. This FDP was too informative. That creation of online video by render forest software was exciting, that venn diagram, live am charts, OBS, Open shot technology was great. Most surprising was that now I can create my own website, oh! Really awesome feeling.
“जो भी दिमाग में हैं वो कैनव्हास पे उतार दो…” like Mind maps works.
Zoom meeting app: We participated in the zoom meeting. I was new to it before this course, but now I knew all the aspects related to the Zoom meeting. I don’t know what to say, it sometimes happens, when we want to share much more and much more is remaining like that now my condition is?
Information about OER is too important as now, we know there are online resources which are unexplored to me yet. This information will surely help my student in all respects.
Now, the most confusing or most challenging question is the creation of MOOCs. That was for us an assignment, but too challenging and interesting too. I have prepared it and it was around 40-50% done, and I got information that it has been cancelled. All right but soon I will complete it. We should accept the challenges and we should be able to get 100% success in that.
Now, I would like to express my gratitude towards FDP, Organized by Ramanujan College, Delhi. I would like to extend my gratitude towards all the teachers who took many efforts to give us complete knowledge about this online teaching and learning methodology. Miss-Bhavya Ahuja, Dr. Nikhil Rajput, Dr. Vibhsah Kumar, Dr. Sapana Varshney, Dr. Virendra Kumar, Dr. Rajesh Singh, all team members who have spent their most important time for us.
How can I forget that imminent personality, Dr. S. P. Aggarwal, Principal of Ramanujan College, Delhi, I am very thankful to him as he has taken initiative to organize such a wonderful, useful, FDP for teachers.
Really, it was a great experience I had from the last 16 days. Surely I will miss this kind of virtual class.
I am also thankful to my Principal of college, Prof. B. P. Ladgaonkar sir, who has shared the Brochure with us on whatsapp group.
Thank you, thank you one and all…