Shillon, April 20: MOOCs Center, NEHU today oganized a one day workshop on “Implementation, Development and Promotion of MOOCs”. Prof. Prabha Shankar Shukla, Vice-Chancellor of NEHU graced the occasion as the chief guest and Prof. Prabhakar Rao from University of Hyderabad was the guest of honour.
In his welcome address Prof. S. K. Singh, Coordinator, MOOCs, NEHU thanked the Vice-Chancellor of NEHU and the two eminent resource persons Prof. Prabhakar Rao, University of Hyderabad and Prof. Rajesh Kumar, IIT, Madras for accepting the invitation and delivering the lectures on implementation, development and promotion of massive open online courses.
He also mentioned that NEHU now has a well equipped and fully functional MOOCs center and studio which has been the initiative of the Vice-Chancellor of NEHU. Prof. Singh thanked the Vice-Chancellor for his active role in developing the center and the studio as soon as he joined the University.
The workshop saw the presentation of sessions by Prof. Prabhakar Rao from University of Hyderabad, Prof. Rajesh Kumar of IIT, Madras and Dr. Quendarissa Kharbuli of HRDC, NEHU who are eminent resource persons in the field of MOOCS.
While presenting his speech, Prof. Shukla, the chief guest of the event spoke extensively on the advantages of offering MOOCs courses for both the students and teachers. Prof. Shukla said “The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the dynamics of the way the entire world works.
Not just the academia, it has also affected the way companies, institutes and organizations work. The online teaching has become a part of the daily curriculum and it will change even more in the coming years.”
He also said that research potential has to be built up between institutions by fair redistribution of scarce resources so that in research, a university like NEHU can maintain a steady role in contributing to the economy.
Once thought to be the end of traditional brick and mortar education, MOOCs are now motivating educators to create digital material that they can use on and offline. While concluding his speech the Vice-Chancellor said when we look back in five years, MOOCs will have been a useful tool for integrating technology into teaching.
At NEHU, MOOCs Coordinators should use the Studio facility for asynchronous teaching as a learning platform. It should essentially involve pre-recorded lectures, resource video materials, lecture notes, assignments, and quizzes as content and self-assessment at regular intervals.
