Today technology has advanced enormously and came a long way, in terms of affordances, innovations, and capabilities and every field is taking advantage of technology for various purposes to reduce the efforts, time, improve productivity, etc. Education is no exception to this but has to go a long way to make maximum out of ICT applications. As its need for time, everyone who is working in education, in teaching-learning processes needs to know the affordances of technology, has to adopt competencies and skills to use its daily activities and processes wherever most applicable and relevant.
The course is designed mainly considering schools ICT labs and the school teachers across the domain, lab-in-charge, students with interest in computers, who may or may not have a technical background. This course is intended to enhance the learners' skills to handle the basic computer lab setup and maintenance. After taking the course learners will become independent to use the lab in daily teaching-learning processes and activities involved in the ICT lab by taking care of regular and frequent basic issues that are part of the setup as they will be having an understanding of the lab setup and peripherals used.
The course has three main sections as knowing hardware and role, setting up basic minimal software and hands-on activities (with reference material) around these two sections with assessment components to revise and enhance the understanding as the course progresses. The course outline is as follows:
The course is designed by the professionals working in the lab setup for more than 5+ years in the field and otherwise, and is prepared to best suit the context as close as possible to ICT labs in the schools. The course will flow with activities with context and in the course of action understand the peripheral, its role and usage, processes to install and use the software, understand basic issues that may arise frequently, and their causes and solutions.
Disclaimer: Learners will be solely responsible for any consequences that may occur while performing activities.
I work as a Test Engineer at CLIx and my inspiration working on Edu-Tech is a line I came across which says “If we teach Today’s Students, as we taught them Yesterday, we rob them of Tomorrow”. Technology today is basically like what pen and paper was in earlier times.
I am the system administrator at CLIx and have been associated with the organisation since 2018. I have worked on different devops related technologies. The major part of my work includes keeping the CLIx and other related sites up and running and automation of redundant work
I am working in technology area for more than 8 years. Educational Technology is my area of interest and I enjoy sharing the knowledge and learning from others. I believe that EdTech has lot of potential to improve quality, effectiveness and ease the teaching learning process, keep up with the pace of changing educational needs, if used in correct, well-planned and efficient manner.
I have been involved in design, development and integration of educational technology solutions and OER for school and higher education. I do research on meaningful and inclusive EdTech solutions and practices, and teach ICT & Education courses at TISS Mumbai.
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Yes. Once you complete the course and fulfill the eligibility criteria, you will get the certificate.
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