B.Ed. (Full Time) Critical Understanding of ICT Syllabus - Mumbai University

Objectives

• To develop an understanding of the concept of ICT
• To practice safe and ethical ways of using ICT.
• To use ICT in Teaching Learning, Administration, Evaluation and Research.
• To design, develop and use ICT based learning resources.
• To develop an understanding of the concept of Open Education Resources and Creative Commons in education.
• To evaluate ICT based learning resources.
• To adopt mobile learning, open learning and social learning in the classroom.

Module 1: ICT in Education and its Implications 1 credits

Unit 1: Understanding of ICT in Education

• a) Information and Communication Technology: Concept and Importance
• b) Role of teacher in ICT enabled education - Administrator, Facilitator and Evaluator
• c) Legal and ethical issues in the use of ICT - Hacking, Violating of copyright, Plagiarism

Unit 2: Designing Technology Integrated Learning Experiences

• a) Instructional Design –Develop ADDIE model Instructional Design based on School topic.
• b) Develop Learning Resources on a topic using ICT tools (Script writing and Story board) and Critically evaluate it by using rubrics
• c) Learning Management System (LMS) – Concept, Features and Applications

Module 2: Teacher and ICT Enabled Administration, Evaluation and Research 1 credits

Unit 3: Emerging Trends in E-learning

• a) Mobile learning – Concept, Features and uses of any ONE Mobile application for teaching and learning.
• b) Social learning- Concept, Use of web2.0 tools for learning (Social networking site, Blog, Chat, Video conferencing, Discussion forum)
• c) Open Educational Resources, Creative Common, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) – Concept and Applications

Unit 4: Use of ICT in Evaluation, Administration and Research

• a) e Portfolio – Concept and Development
• b) ICT for Research- Online Repositories & Online Libraries
• c) Online and offline assessment tools ( Online Survey tools or Test generators) - Concept and development

Module 3: Suggested Task/assignment Activities (any Four) 1 credits

• a) Select a case study/report related to legal and ethical issues in use of ICT. Discuss your case using any mode of online discussion forum. Submit the screenshots of your group discussion.
• b) Develop and critically evaluate a CAI package (Script writing and Story Board) using ADDIE model of Instructional design for any topic of your choice.
• c) Using any LMS carry out the following activities for facilitating learning in any of the unit of your choice:
• • Identify resources for a topic of your choice and upload it.
• • Use any discussion forum available for the discussion on the uploaded learning material.
• • Generate a test.
• d) Submit a reflective report on it.
• e) Develop and Manage a Social Networking site /Blog / Chat forum for college based on ICT course. Submit the report for the same with empirical evidences.
• f) Select a topic relevant to education, collect Open Educational Resources (Text, Multimedia, Website references) and analyze the type of license used in the Open Educational Resources. Submit the report for the same with evidences.
• g) Select an educational problem and conduct an online survey. Submit a report on the procedure and analysis of the survey result along with screen shot.

References

• Goel, D. R., and Joshi, P. (1999). A Manual for INTERNET Awareness. CASE: The M. S. University of Baroda Press.
• Mahapatra, B.C. (2006). Education in Cybernatic Age. New Delhi: Sarup Sons.
• Mansfield, R. (1993). The Compact Guide to Windows.World and Excel. New Delhi: BPB Publishing.
• Saxena, S. (1999). A first course in computers. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House.
• Tanenbaum, A. S. (1996). Computer Networks. New Delhi: Pretince Hall of India.
• Walkenbach, J. (1997). Excel 97 Bible. New Delhi: Comdex Computer Publishing.
• Khirwadkar, A. (2005). Information & Communication Technology in Education. New Delhi: Sarup & Sons.
• Khirwadkar, A. (2010). e-learning Methodology: Perspectives on the Instructional Design for Virtual Classrooms. New Delhi: Sarup Book Publication Ltd.