Experience Sharing Session on “MOOCS and New Age Teaching – Learning Pedagogies”

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Experience Sharing Session on “MOOCS and New Age Teaching – Learning Pedagogies” was organized by Department of ITon 29th January 2018 for MCA students in New Seminar Hall.
Prof. Satyaki RoyNational Coordinator, NPTEL, IIT Kanpur, Ms. Lalty Dutta, Project Manager, NPTEL, IIT Kanpur,Ms. AnganaSenguptaCoordinator, Local Chapter, IIT Kanpur were eminent guest for the session.NPTEL is an acronym for National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning which is an initiative by seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) for creating course contents in engineering and science.

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January

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2018

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Monday, January 29, 2018

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Before beginning of the session, Prof. Satyaki Roy,Ms. Lalty Dutta, andMs. AnganaSenguptawere warmlywelcomed by Dr. Sunil Kr Pandey, Director IT.Director IT Dr. Sunil Kumar Pandeyalso delivered welcomeaddress in which he has communicated about need of learning beyond classroom and how MOOC and New Age Teaching Pedagogies are helpful to the students in this requirement.
Prof. Satyaki Roy briefed about details of NPTEL, how and when it has been formed, before it was planned to just deliver video lectures, later on it has been shifted to online certification. He also briefed about achievements of NPTEL till date like 30,000+ video hours, 371+million NPTEL website view, 271+ million you tube views etc. He also shared the statistics of number of students and faculty participation from initial years to Dec 2017. He also communicated students how these courses helps them in their placements.
After the session, Dr. Vidushi Singh delivered vote of thanks toProf. Satyaki Roy,Ms. Lalty Dutta, andMs. AnganaSengupta for their splendid sessions. They also interacted with the facultymembers of Department of IT and answered the queries related with NPTEL online course during the session.

Overall the session was eye opening for the IT faculty members and MCA students as this will definitely help them to learn through MOOC environment.