Course Journal

Submitted as part of coursework in FDP101x

This course journal is a record of my experience with the Blended MOOC FDP101x and
reflections based on it

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Course Journal
Submitted as part of coursework in FDP101x
Personal Vision
for the FDP
FDP101x •••
The blended course titled – “Foundation Program in ICT for
As indicated by Prof.
Education” aims to equip faculty in:
Phatak in the course
• Identifying various ICT devices and applications useful in introduction video, by
teaching-learning the end of this FDP, I
• Developing awareness towards ethical practices for use of ICT aim to adapt myself as a
in education
21st century teacher. I
• Making use of best practices for information dissemination
using ICT
aim to be a better
facilitator and start
The course started on 03-August and will end on 07-September,
integrating various ICT
2017. There was a face-to-face interaction with course faculty on 19th
resources in my own
and 20th August.
teaching-learning
practices. I expect the
Week 1: Moving from Physical to Online
course to expose me to
classroom
This week focused on the pedagogic modifications required while various technologies,
moving from physical to online classrooms. The facilitator provided and also provide hands-
four pedagogic strategies: on training on effective
use of these.
• Learning Dialogues – This is equivalent to a regular lecture
with interspersed opportunities for learner reflection in my Currently, my ICT use
regular classroom. inside the classroom is
• Learning by Doing activities – This is equivalent to providing very limited. I vow to
practice activities along with detailed feedback in my regular
expand this to include
classroom
• Learning Experience Interaction – The experience interactions more recent
is a novel way of looking into online discussions. The idea of technologies that will
having focused questions for interaction coupled with graded excite my learners and
activities on the interaction is a very good idea.
provide a better
• Learning Extension Resources – This is similar to additional
teaching-learning
resources that we provide in regular classroom. However
there is an extra premium on these resources, i.e. learners are environment in my
rewarded with marks in assimilation quizzes based on these classroom.
resources. This will motivate learner to go through the
resources at least once.

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Personal Reflection after week 1

The pedagogies that have been applied in this course are very similar to what we do in a face-to-face
classroom. The only difference is that there is an explicit learner-focus making all these activities
engaging and interesting.

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