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Date: 17th March, 2018

Week 1: 8th to 15th March, 2018

Introduction: Today there is a great need to transition from traditional classroom

teaching methodology to adopting newer tools and techniques. In the traditional

classroom the teacher is face to face with the learners and the content is delivered

usually using the chalk and talk method or with use of simple IT tools such as

PowerPoint presentations etc. On the contrary in an online setting the teacher who

was earlier in direct contact with the students becomes a facilitator. Learning

becomes more learner-centered than teacher-centered. The teacher also has to

manage the interactions in the online classroom and ensure engagement of all the

learners.

Pedagogical Tools: In this course, discussion forums, quizzes and videos are some

of the pedagogical tools adopted.

Pedagogic Adaptations: Four pedagogic adaptations which have been used in the

course to engage the learners are learning dialogue (LeD), learning by doing

(LbD), learning extension resources (LxT) and learning experience interactions

(LxI).

Learning Dialogue: The first feature is called the learning dialogue. Learning

dialogue is a series of experience points of a session by means of simple interactive

queries through which reflection activities can be done. Such reflections points

ensure that the learner is not a passive viewer of the videos but is now actively

engaged in the learning process. It is also a point at which the learner records his

observations in the course journal by pausing the video.

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Learning By Doing: The second pedagogical feature is learning by doing

activities. This helps in reinforcing the concepts viewed in the session and allows

the learners to practice them.

Learning Extension Resources: The next feature is the learning extension

resources which are used to explore in further depth the content that has been

learnt. This can be done through viewing videos, reading additional material, going

through given web-links, or other references. These learning extensions are

followed by graded assimilation quizzes which help in testing the understanding

of the concept.

Learning Experience Interactions: The fourth pedagogic feature is called the

learning experience interactions. In a physical classroom it is possible for the

teacher to initiate a discussion by asking specific questions and holding structured

discussions. Similarly, the learning experience interactions also engage the

learners about the concept in a structured manner thus providing an opportunity for

learners to share their experiences and to collaborate with other learners.

Basics of ICT: There is also an introduction to the evolution and development of

ICT in the teaching learning process. The importance and purpose of maintaining

a good course journal is then elaborate upon. It is very correctly stated that the

course journal is an overview of the learners’ thoughts, experiences and

understanding of the course which has to be shared with the peer group and

feedback has to be obtained on it.

Conclusion: The learning extension resource material related to ICT in education

including a link to a wiki, YouTube video and ICT in education as one of the

themes of sustainable development goals of the UN. The talk by Dr. Anant

Agarwal on use of MOOCs, Dr. Phatak’s video on introduction to learners of the

faculty development programme about education in the 21st century and the

challenges before us and other related material are also informative and interesting.

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Date: 24th March, 2018

Week 2: 15th to 22nd March, 2018

The contents of Week 2 relate to Internet as a part of ICT and Website creation.

What is the Internet?

It is a medium to facilitate online tools for collaboration, such as websites, blogs,

wiki pages and social networks. All of this is possible by creating a web presence

through an email address. But all of the above are possible only if we are connected

to the Internet.

Reflection Spot Do you know what Internet is? Do you know how it works?

The Wikipedia defines internet as the global system of interconnected computer

networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.

The internet is a telecommunications network that uses telephone lines, cables,

satellites and wireless connections to connect computers and other devices to the

World Wide Web.

LbD 2.1: Q1

Whenever you want to visit any website on the Internet, even if you are using your

mobile phone, you need to ensure that you have Internet connectivity first. Then

select any browser of your choice to type the domain name. This allows you to

open the site you are looking for.

LbD 2.1: Q2

The internet is a collection of several independent networks. Thus internet can be

thought of as controlled by everyone as well as no one.

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How the Internet works

Today, we use the Internet almost every day in many areas like education, making

money transactions, paying bills, online shopping and in entertainment to watch

videos, movies and live streaming events. All these activities involve the

transmission of information from one computer to the other.

Reflection Spot: Do you know how information travels from your computer to

other networks?

The internet is a complicated system; there are two main protocols that the internet

uses to allow the transmission and the reception of information. The two protocols

covering the network used by internet is Transmission Control

Protocol/ Internet Protocol (TCP/IP protocols). Information is carried in packets

from one computer to another, large chunks of data are usually broken down into

several smaller packets before being sent through the network. There is a second

phase of data transmission which is the delivery process. It uses a mechanism that

is used to encode the packet and ensured safe mode of conveyance and provide a

way of reconstructing the data when it reaches the destination.

LbD 2.2: Q1

For downloading a short 16 MB video file from YouTube at a download speed of

2MB/s it will take 8 seconds. The total time for the operation can be calculated by

dividing the file size with the Internet speed.

Some Internet Protocols

Whenever information travels from one computer to another and from one network

to the other, there are rules and procedures that manage the movement of data

packets. These rules and procedures constitute network protocols.

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Reflection Spot: Think of what happens when you write and send an email to your

friend. What do you think are the activities/processes taking place from the time

you send it to the time you receive a response?

When someone sends an email, it has to have an address. The email gets sent by

the client to an outgoing mail server via Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. The SMTP

server is like a local post office, which checks postage and address and figures out

where to send the mail. The SMTP server contacts a Domain Name System server.

The DNS server is a sort of phone or address book for the internet; it translates

domains to an IP address like “74.238.23.45.” Then, it finds out if that domain has

any mail exchange servers on it and makes a note of it. This is like a post office

consulting maps of where the mail is supposed to go, calling their local post office,

and checking to see if the addressee has a mailbox or P.O. box to receive mail.

Now that the SMTP server has the proper info, the message gets sent from that

server to the target domain’s mail exchange server. This server is referred to as an

MTA, or Mail Transfer Agent. It decides where exactly to put the mail, much like

how the post office figures out how best to get the mail delivered. Then, the friend

goes and fetches the mail, usually using a client that works via POP or IMAP. The

reverse happens to receive a reply.

The Internet: HTTP & HTML

LbD 2.3: Q1

A URL is the address of any resource on the Internet. To visit Google site, the

correct URL to use is https://www.google.com. All URLs contain a protocol and a

domain name

Tools for Website Creation: Web Presence for Faculty

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The session starts with information on various options available to setup a simple

website to create content which is to be used by students. The website could contain

information related to faculty curriculum vitae, research work, publications,

teaching material or blog.

Websites can be broadly classified as simple which have just a few pages and a

very simple menu and some periodic blogs and multifunctional with deeper

structured content. Examples of complex websites include department websites

and conference website with registration, abstract submission, fee payment etc. the

facilitator recommends use of Wordpress for simple websites and Drupal for

multifunctional websites.

LbD 2.1: Q1

WordPress and Drupal are recommended for creating websites because they are

both free and open source. This would help in redistribution or modification of the

original program without fear of legal implications. There are lot of other

applications and services that help you in creating websites.

LbD 2.1: Q2

When a website caters to more than one function it becomes multifunctional. The

functions that you write or the number of people that you employ to maintain a

website has no implication on its multi-functionality. When a website adjusts its

appearance based on the device used, it is called as a responsive website.

Basic Customisation in Wordpress

The session on Customizing Wordpress shows how to customize the appearance

of Wordpress site that we have created using some basic configuration. The site

has some default text already put in. There is a text widget which allows us to add

something there that and there is a search. There is also a menu - Home, About,

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Contact. The admin dashboard has a section on the left called as a control panel

which has got various action items to use to change the site. It can be customized

for the name of the site, adding a widget which is a small application that runs

within the website. There are many widgets available by default and there are lot

more available on the Wordpress.org to download and install. The front page by

default in Wordpress list all the blogs that we have written. If we don't want a blog

to be on the front page we can change it to a static page.

LbD 2.2 : Q1

We can access the control panel that is used for customizing your WordPress page

from the The control panel available in the admin dashboard. Static pages, blog

posts and widgets are the utilities that are useful in customization.

LbD 2.2 : Q2

In a simple Wordpress site, you can do reordering of your page by just dragging

and dropping items. Wordpress allows simple drag and drop of webpage elements

while designing your webpage.

Managing Content in Wordpress

To manage various contents such as blogs, pages, comments in the Wordpress site,

the control panel allows us to manage blogs, media, pages, comments and so on

and several other site level actions. The administrative user dashboard interface

allows us much more complicated interactions with the website. In the

administrative dashboard, we can see posts, media, links, pages, comments etc.

Clicking on post will give us a list of all the posts that are there. Posts can be created

by default and it is called sticky. A sticky post is a post which always is there at

the top of all the lists. Posts are in a draft stage until published. Normally, the blog

posts are there in a descending order of time. If we want certain blog post to appear

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always on the top we can make it sticky. We can also control posts on a quick edit

to add some content and update the post. This interface can also be used to delete

posts. If there are several posts, we could also use a search to search based on

keywords. We can also do a similar actions for pages.

LeD 2.4 : Q1

A sticky post always appears on top of the posts page. While the remaining posts

are arranged in descending order of publish date. This is typically used for

highlighting a very important post that you want everyone to see. It has nothing to

do with whether the text "Sticky" is present in the title or body or an image is

present in the post.

Adding Content in Wordpress

In this session, we learnt how to add simple content such as pages and blogs in a

Wordpress site. Wordpress by default provides two simple content types blog and

page. Blog is a short form for web-log which is like a diary on the web. It could be

a commentary, it could be a collection of pictures or any other review and so on.

What distinguishes a blog from a page is that a blog is periodic or time bound

release. Usually they are categorized by the date of release and keywords. Whereas

a page is a generic web-page that could be a static page, there is nothing time bound

to it. Pages can have other objects in it such as tables, lists, images, attachments

and so on.

The video then goes on to tell how to add a blog which must have a title and a body

and we can attach media as well. We preview if required and then publish. We can

have additional features to a blog like categorizing blog with hierarchical keywords

or free text called categories. So any person who is searching for the blogs can look

for blogs under a particular category. We can also use tags. Tags are free text

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categories which can be used for while searching for keywords people can land up

at this page.

Pages can also be organized in a hierarchical way, unlike blogs in which the

categories are having a parent-child relation. We could add media and so on to this

page. Slug is the text which comes in your URL. By default Wordpress picks up

slug text from the title and it does an intelligent way to cut down unnecessary text.

We can use the default for most cases. We can also decide whether to allow others

to comment on pages, usually only for blog post.

LeD 2.3 : Q1

The simplest content types offered in WordPress are Blogs and Pages. Text, Image

and Video are simplest elements that are used in creating blogs and posts.

LeD 2.3 : Q2

We can use Categories and Tags to categorize the posts in Wordpress. Widgets are

separate applications that can be run on the page.

Advanced Customisation in Wordpress

On the Wordpress site, we have to go to my site and the admin dashboard that is

WP admin. This is the admin dashboard and can be used to add files or media to

pages. We go to pages and say edit. We can upload a new file by dragging and

dropping files here. We have an option to include these files in the page. At the

end of the page, we can have the title which is linked to this file. After previewing

the changes, if we are satisfied we say update and it's republished now. For people

discover this page from within our website, we use the concept of menu. Menu is

the one which leads us from the homepage to different pages which are in our

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website. To add this page to a menu, we go to the dashboard control panel,

appearance and menus which lists various pages as the current menu structure. To

add anything to one of these menu items, we select it and say add to menu save

that and reload the website. To change the theme, we go to the admin dashboard,

under appearance, we go to themes to select another and say activate. To customize

widgets, we go to widgets and choose where they should appear. Depending on the

theme the number of areas that are there could be different. We could add new

widgets from here. After every change we save, and go to the web page, and say

reload.

LbD 2.5

Creating a Simple Faculty Webpage using wordpress.com:

https://kalyanisrinivasc.wordpress.com

Multi-Functional Websites Using Drupal: the videos are informative and tell us

why to choose Drupal, Drupal Content, Extend and Creating a Basic Page. There

is a link to 63 video lessons.

Wordpress websites created by previous participants: The content also

provided examples of videos in different local languages that were created by

participants in the previous year to understand how to do the activity.

How can you use Web Presenc in regular teaching-learning

Scenario: You have a class of 60 students, each of them with diverse abilities and

from diverse backgrounds. Each of these students have a device (mobile or

computer) with basic internet access and are able to operate it. You are planning to

take a topic which requires these students to go through additional information,

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collaborate with each other (inside and outside classroom) and also express their

thoughts to effectively learn it.

Focus Question: Think of one way in which you can use a Wordpress webpage to

achieve the above goal?

With a class carrying its own mobile / other devices with internet access an option

to use Wordpress webpage to go through additional information, collaborate

with each other (inside and outside classroom) and also express their thoughts

to effectively learn it, I shall upload the additional learning content in the form

of ppts, pdfs, videos or links to other webpages. This will enable the class to use

the resources and carry on a discussion on the link in my Wordpress page. This

can be guided or self-directed learning.

After writing the post, I visited two of peer's postings and compared the strategies

that are used.

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Date: 30th March, 2018

Week 3: 23rd to 30th March, 2018

The focus of the third week is on creation of video resources and sharing them

through YouTube. The outline of the course is as follows:

1. VISUAL PRESENTATION: In the first two learning dialogues, Dr. Sameer

Sahasrabudhe explained the points to remember when creating your visual

presentation by planning, executing and making impressions for different

types of contents. He also talked about planning the colors as per the venue

for presentation.

2. SPOKEN TUTORIAL PROJECT AND OTHER SCREENCASTING

TOOLS was explained by Prof. Kannan Moudgalya, who spoke about how

Spoken Tutorial Project at IIT Bombay utilizes the video creation process.

This was followed by a practice activity, where we created a short video on

"How to create a website in WordPress" and uploaded in YouTube and

shared with peers in the learning experience interaction.

3. CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSING for all content developed and used

in teaching-learning practices.

4. PEER REVIEW PROCESS is also incorporated in this week’s learning.

Visual Presentation Skills

It is important to make presentations appealing and easy for your audience to use

and reuse.

Reflection Spot

Assume that you are planning to create a slide with your subject content and

uploaded it to your WordPress website. You are creating this as an open

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educational resource (OER) so that everyone can access and use it. What visual

parameters will you take care of during your slide design so that your website

visitors find it easier to understand?

The three considerations in preparing the presentation were:

1. simplicity of layout

2. appropriate font size for ease in reading

3. some animations to make the presentation appealing

'Visual Presentation Skills' starts with planning involving techniques like

brainstorming, discussions, analysing and organising what content you want

followed by execution which is about providing a particular flow of the whole

presentation by creating an outline and adding bulleted details and the graphics.

Using graphics is one of the important decisions for creating any presentation.

They can be static and in motion graphics or videos graphics. Graphics can be used

for aesthetic reason, depiction of the realistic scene or screenshot because that will

communicate. 'Organizational Graphics' tells us is a qualitative relation between

two entities within that graphic. But for a quantitative representation, graphs and

pie charts are the best way to communicate. 'Transformational Graphic' is used to

depict changeover period. Flow and other diagrams are examples of interpretive

graphic. And finally, colour schemes, choice of fonts, and animation effects create

visual appeal of that particular presentation.

LbD 3.1

Preparing visual presentations involves three processes of

Plan>>Execute>>Impress.

LbD 3.2

Different graphics are used to represent different types of contents. Suppose a

teacher wants to represent change in value over time, Transformational Graphic is

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the suggested type of graphics. When there is a change in value with respect to

time, then we will use Transformational graphic. Decorative Graphics are used

mainly to attract attention of the user, while organisational graphic is used when

we need to explain qualitative relation between two (or more) entities. The

interpretive graphic is used to illustrate a theory or principle, typically through line

art like arrows and colours.

Two more factors have to be considered: colour and typography and how to use

them effectively. When making visual presentations and the general rule of thumb.

Reflection Spot

Given that you know how to design visuals from the previous learning dialogue,

what do you think are the considerations you have to make when using fonts and

colors in slide design? How many font types, font sizes and colours will you use in

the design of your slides?

Use of colour communicates a mood. Colours may have some meaning in certain

cultures and it can be changing in other places. The basic thumb rule is that more

the between font and background color contrast more the readability. Use of vivid

colours or pale colours have to be avoided. Use neutral colours like greys and

browns typically or blue greys for communicating such topics.

So, in a presentation if we want to emphasize one particular word we can make it

bold , have italics, have a underline or have a change of color. But avoid using

italic in some slides and bold in other slides. Left alignment is more readable and

reader friendly. The impress guidelines are to be kept in mind when the actual

presentation happens. We should not prioritize form over function as both are

important.

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Let the content decide the particular choice of mediums of font, colour, graphic,

type etc. Importantly test before presenting your content. Use 6 x 6 rules. So, not

more than 6 points on a slide and within that 6 point, the words should be not more

than 6. Choose a template which promotes readability. Use phrases to minimize

your word count. Use a Sans Serif font for presentations. Use high-quality

graphics and look out for the copyright issues In case you use a graphic or a visual

or a sentence from any other place, give the reference at the end of the page or the

slide. Use the effects like animation sparingly. Highlight the important information

in the presentation. Make a one-page hand out of this presentation and give it out

to all the people who are attending in advance.

LbD 3.3

The following is not true about minimum advisable guidelines when using font

types in your presentation: Use more than four colors on each slide

Learning Experience Interaction

How to create a simple website for yourself using WordPress? Read the scenario

and use the focus question to work towards the solution.

Scenario:

You have been assigned to teach a course of your preference in a new class of 80

students. The class is arranged in such a way that there are ten rows of eight

students each. You are required to prepare your first lecture (with four slides)

consisting of the following parts: Title slide, Course Objectives, Course

Outline and Assessment strategy.

Focus Questions:

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1. Design the five slides using MS PowerPoint and upload to your WordPress

website.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1szURcThyppi2mivxvIETg9gsVH7cyXkN

2. List three design consideration you have used in preparing your slides.

The three considerations in preparing the presentation were:

1. simplicity of layout

2. appropriate font size for ease in reading

3. some animations to make the presentation appealing

Creative Commons Licensing

When sharing our resources to other people through the Internet or when we use

ready-made contents from the Internet, we always have to think of licenses.

Creative Commons (CC) is one way that offers public license that allows you to

set the way you want other people to use your content (open educational resources)

and how the already available contents can be used by others. There are different

types of creative commons licenses available. The "Licenses and Examples" page

and videos by Sarah Morehouse are very clear on the Creative Commons License.

LbD on Creative Commons

Creative Commons Licensing allows you to share your resources on the Internet

publicly under certain conditions. In the license CC BY-ND, the owner sharing the

content need to be credited, while allowing the following attribution:

Redistribution allowed, commercial allowed, non-commercial allowed,

modification not allowed.

Spoken Tutorial Project

Spoken Tutorial Project at IIT Bombay is a project that consists of open

educational resources available under the Creative Commons. Open Educational

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Resources, also known as OER, Khan Academy, NPTEL, OCW, of course,

MOOCs such as, edX do have a lot of open educational resources. You can go and

access them any time.

An OER called Spoken Tutorial is an initiative of NMEICT, MHRD Government

of India. It teaches open source software through audio-video tutorials with license

under CC BY-SA, Creative Commons Attribution- ShareAlike. Tutorials are

available in different languages.

The script is extremely important in spoken tutorial. As a matter of fact we write

the script first and then record the tutorials. A beginner has to certify they can

reproduce every step in the tutorial. This helps make sure that it is suitable for self-

learning.

How does one use this resource to learn? We can use the Side-by-Side method,

where you have to do is to open the video on half the screen and in the other half

of the screen, you open the software itself. You play this, listen to a command,

pause the command and then try it out. If it works go to the next command. If not,

rewind, listen to it, and try again.

For people who don't have access to Internet we can create an offline package

through CD creation. After having added all the material, create the zip file and

then unzip it; there will be a file called index.html, open that file, then it can be

used offline.

LbD 3.3: Q1

While creating a Spoken Tutorial, the script for the narration is created first. This

will help in doing a better audio narration while recording the video for the tutorial.

Creating Spoken Tutorials

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To prepare a spoken tutorial, we have to use an open source recording software

like CamStudio, recordMyDesktop, Kazam which can be used to produce videos

of slide presentations with a sound narration. We should use software that works

on different platforms. We then use software like Movie Maker, OpenShot to edit

the video.

On the main page of the website under the creation tab there is a link called

'Creation Process'. What are the processes involved in creating a spoken tutorial?

We have to create a checklist, first, satisfy the requirements in a checklist and then

there is a learning activity and then outline for the whole series of spoken tutorials

and then we write the script which undergoes admin check, novice and domain

expert check and then we go for video recording. If we click guidelines checklist

we see that it has a file called guidelines.zip. If we unzip it, there will be a whole

directory and there is a pdf file, there is information on preamble, naming a tutorial,

how much what to cover in each tutorial. Spoken tutorials are about ten minutes

long. So we need to decide how much to cover in each tutorial. How to sequence

them? How to provide examples? 75% of every tutorial is devoted to

demonstrations that learner has to reproduce through self-learning. How do you

prepare for recording? How do you choose the screen size? Tutorials are watched

by students in mobile phones so having a big font size really helps. It is possible to

create good quality tutorials in a normal room. Spoken tutorials are dubbed into all

22 languages, so the original has to be suitable for this purpose.

LbD 3.4: Q1

What is the name of screen recording software that has been recently used for

creating Spoken Tutorials in linux systems?

Kazam is the screencasting software that has been used recently for creating

Spoken Tutorials in linux systems.

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LbD 3.4: Q2

Why is it important to follow the rules/guidelines laid out by Spoken Tutorial

project while creating your own videos?

Guidelines for video creation need to be strictly followed to ensure that videos that

you create are suitable for self-learning. Most video sharing servers accept any size

and type of video files, and the criteria for open educational resource videos is to

make the license in creative commons.

Other Software Tools

There are many software packages to create your own open educational resources.

The softwares marked with GPL (GNU General Public License) allow users to

freely distribute and modify the original program. The following non-GPL

softwares are also popularly used.

1. Screencast-o-matic

2. Techsmith Jing (for Windows and OSX)

3. Techsmith Camstatia (for Windows)

4. Quicktime (for OSX)

Learning Experience Interactions

Resource Creation in various local languages

Using one from the list of screencast softwares we create a screencast on "How to

create a webpage using WordPress?" with audio narration in your local vernacular

language and publish this in YouTube by keeping the video in Creative Commons.

Focus Questions

1. What all guidelines did you follow while creating your own screencast?

Keeping the script ready before starting.

Trying the flow of screencast before recording it.

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2. What were the challenges that you faced while creating the screencast?

The audio volume was very low.

Synchronising the audio and screencast was a challenge.

Instructions For Discussion

1. First share the YouTube link of the screencast that you created.

Multimedia Principles

To develop any teaching-learning content such as a PowerPoint presentation, a

video resource, an animation, a learning site such as the one on Wordpress or an

online course, it is important to get your students engaged while using the

materials without distracting them. Multimedia principles help learners to learn

better when they are using different learning materials of the course. The videos

below by Prof. Richard E. Mayer give important pointers for developing your

teaching-learning resources such as the screencasting activity.

Multimedia Principles

The video posted by Matt Gerberick with a Creative Commons Attribution License

(Reuse Allowed) outlines multimedia principles.

In the interview Prof. Richard E Mayer an American educational psychologist who

is chief contributor behind the "Multimedia Principles" and has contributed in the

general areas of cognition and learning has talked about how might we best design

video to achieve its learning objectives in a higher education setting, what do

teachers or lecturers need to know in order to be able to use video and/or

multimedia effectively and how should we produce video in order to increase the

odds of it achieving its learning objectives for those who use it.

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Multimedia principles help you to design your resources that help learners who are

using them to get the intended message without distraction. Suppose the developed

video resource contains the teacher explaining the lecture with the same text being

displayed as captions, which multimedia principle is being violated?

Redundancy because people learn better from graphics and narration than from

graphics, narration and on screen text

Resource Creation and Peer Review

Peer Review Process: What, Why and How

Peer review is a practice for building quality resources and is extensively used in

scientific publications as well as large crowd sourcing efforts like Wikipedia. In

education, student peer review in the classroom is used by teachers to achieve

higher order processes in cognitive and affective domains and also assessing open-

ended assignments like essays, presentations etc.

For a good peer review providing clear instructions on what has to be done, criteria

used for reviewing, providing training to do a peer review and asking reviewers to

provide detailed comments while reviewing is necessary.

The peer review process helps the reviewee in obtaining feedback from multiple

people about the quality of their submission and helps the reviewer in giving

constructive good feedback as well as more clarity about the various criteria that

was used for creating a good submission. Every peer review process goes through

four phases: Submission phase, Allocation phase, Review phase and Consolidation

phase.

LbD 3.5: Q1

Which of these are the phases in a peer review process?

The four phases are - Submission, Allocation, Review and consolidation

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LbD 3.5: Q2

Why is training for learner required in a peer review process?

The learner requires practice in evaluating the assessments based on criteria given

by the instructor. The training of learner is required to help the learner practice

evaluating the assessments and achieve closeness to instructor evaluation. This will

help learner better understand the criteria used for evaluation and better prepare

the future answers.

About Peer Review of resources created

In a massive open online course learners create a lot of resources which is difficult

for the course instructors to evaluate. Peer review is one mechanism that is

employed to assess such huge number of subjective assignments.

The two learning dialogues explain the idea of Peer Review in an online learning

platform and how "Peer Review" is conducted in IITBombayX platform. There are

four phases in a peer review. The first phase in it is the submission phase where

the learner submits an answer to the question. After the submissions by other

learners, the allocation phase starts automatically once more than 1 submission is

found.

Once the due date of submission is over, the review process will start after the

learners get trained in the peer review process. The criteria for review is set by the

facilitator. Each criteria will have multiple scoring options, like Poor, Fair,

Exemplary etc. The description of these options and its score is provided right

against each option. For a good review, the reviewer has to first read the example

submission carefully and then submit the review by selecting this appropriate

choice among the given options. In the training process, the learner’s review, of

the example submissions is matched with facilitator's review and a colour coded

message indicates mismatch. Once the training is over, the learner will have to

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review the actual submission shown as the assess peers band in IITBombayX. Once

a submission gets allocated one can proceed with actual review. While doing peer

review it is always a good practice to provide detailed feedback as it will help your

peer to improve, articulate your thoughts as well as explain the criteria better. After

the review phase is over, the consolidation will be done by IITBombayX. The

learner will get his/her own submission back along with the reviews provided by

peers. The reviews given by peer will be visible under the section "Your Grade".

After reviewing the peer feedback, the learner can provide feedback about this

entire review process to the course facilitator.