tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20845785595155152252024-03-13T02:28:19.865-07:00Technology, MOOC and Higher Education - An Indian prespectiveA blog on impact of technology on education, MOOC on higher education from Indian perspective.MOOC - an Indian Prespectivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01595393081979711870noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2084578559515515225.post-71644442768453324052013-08-12T10:30:00.004-07:002013-08-12T10:34:36.493-07:00Understanding students problem in higher education<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">As
a part of understanding problems student face in India, we visit many educational
institutions. And here is the list of top 7 problems students face:-</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1)<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Students are taught by sub
standard teachers and professors</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: - Professors and teachers
in tier 1, 2 and 3 cities educational institutes don’t have required knowledge
level and fail to motivate students for learning. Majority of the teachers and
professors are those who were not able to make it to the corporate world.
Otherwise why they will not take a job that will pay them twice or thrice of
what they are getting for teaching. Here I am not talking about premier
institutions like IIT/IIM etc(though there also you will find professors who
fail to motivate students). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2)<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Students are discouraged to ask questions</span></b><span lang="EN-US">:- I was interacting with one of the students and what he told me
that when I ask a question out of curiosity, teachers tell me to just read
books and concentrate on giving exams and getting good marks. There is no place
for questions/doubts. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3)<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Practical knowledge is missing</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: -<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a well know fact that students
don’t take practical classes/labs. Most of them don’t feel like attend them and
few of them who want to learn are felt on their own.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4)<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">The way they are assessed doesn’t enable them to be thinker</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">You need to cram the thinks. Exams or
any kind of assessment should force the learner to think beyond the
obvious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5)<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Peer level learning is
missing</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">When you concentrate on just getting
good marks where is no opportunity left for peer learning?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you teach, you become better learner.
Classroom time can be utilized to solve problems and case studies through peer
interaction and teacher guidance. But its wasted in explaining theory which in
anyway student can get books. High time for flipped classrooms!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6)<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">They are referred sub
standard books </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Universities and colleges refer books
written by local teachers which are nowhere near to deliver quality knowledge.
Don’t you agree that books are the type of MOOC’s students gets exposed to?
Good books are even rarely referring in the curriculum published by
universities.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7)<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Fail to deliver learning
to learn</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Because of all the above reasons, students
fail to learn the skill of learning. Though major part of the responsibility to
learn the skill is at the student end, but giving students directions,
mentoring and enough push to learn the things on their own is missing. </span></span></span></div>
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MOOC - an Indian Prespectivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01595393081979711870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2084578559515515225.post-55337849873729867182013-07-30T08:49:00.000-07:002013-08-12T10:34:05.373-07:00What is MOOC all about<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> For all those who still don’t know what MOOC is, it’s basically a new way to deliver education to students and working professionals. MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Course, where main educational contents are delivered primarily through videos. Learners (Students and Working Professionals) also learn through discussing their doubts or understandings with the peers in discussion forums. Their learning is analyzed through assignments and Quizzes. And all this is for free. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Though MOOC started way back in 2003, the first successful MOOC was conducted by Sebastian Thrun(a Stanford university professor) and Peter Norvig in Artificial intelligence attended by 160,000 students across the world. He is now CEO and co-founder of Udacity (https://www.udacity.com/) which offers number of courses online in MOOC model. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Source:- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MOOC_poster_mathplourde.jpg">wikipedia.org</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Now personally I
have also attended number of such courses at Udacity, Edx and Coursera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The content which is provided is really good.
But the fact is I am also out of those 90% people who don’t complete the
course. If you don’t know, many of the MOOC offering websites are struggling
with a very low course completion rate of 10%(as per them). Why such a low rate
of completion, because many times those who are attending the course doesn’t
have an immediate need of the course. From India, I guess people who attend
these training are mainly working professionals and students studying in
premier institutes like IIT or IIM’s. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Still I feel
technology has finally started impacting eduction in a positive way.
And if we can motivate/push students to attend these courses, it will be far
better than the time spent on FaceBook.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Here is the list of main providers of MOOC </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">a) <a href="http://www.coursesites.com/" target="_blank">http://www.coursesites.com</a> – provided by BlackBoard who provides popular LMS software<br /><br />b) <a href="http://www.edx.com/" target="_blank">http://www.Edx.com</a> – started by Havard and MIT<br /><br />c) <a href="https://www.coursera.org/" target="_blank">https://www.coursera.org/</a> – started by Stanford university<br /><br />d) <a href="http://www.udacity.com/" target="_blank">http://www.udacity.com</a> - Started by Sebastian Thrun<br /><br />And at last <a href="http://www.praclabs.com/" target="_blank">http://www.praclabs.com</a> started by me and Vikas </span><br />
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