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For M.Ed. Students: Design Thinking OER


TISSx-COOL

About This Course

We are offering these Connected Open Online Learning (COOL) resources to enable student-teachers and teacher educators to stay connected to your learning. Please stay safe and use these COOL resources for teacher education and continue with your professional education during this COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period. You can use the url www.tissx.tiss.edu or the TISSx android app .

This COOL course will introduce participants to the principles of design to curate OERs around a topic of their choice suitable for student-teachers (BEd Courses).

After exploring these resources, the participants will be able to:

  • explore the characteristics of an OER
  • engage in the design thinking process to curate OERs and create teaching-learning events for teacher education
  • learn how to prepare and maintain digital portfolios
  • share the designed resources and implementation experiences and engage in peer discussions on TISSx platform.

Who can do this course?

Teacher educators and M.Ed. student-teachers can enroll for this course and access the resources for free.

The resources will cover the following:

Topic
Introduction to OER
  • What is an OER?
  • Framework for criteria to curate OERs
  • Review OERs
  • Designing OER
  • Broad principles of design (OERs) thinking
  • Basic Introduction to design tools
  • Designing Thinking
  • Design principles for creating events/activities around the use of OERs
  • Iterative process of design thinking
  • Introduction to digital portfolio, tools
  • Curating OER
  • Develop/curate e-content (scaffolded event design) for e-teaching and learning

  • Course Staff

    Dr. Mythili Ramchand, CEIAR, TISS

    Dr. Gomathi Jatin, CEIAR, TISS

    Dr. Sybil Thomas, Department of Education, University of Mumbai

    Dr. Bijoy K Thomas, St. Xavier's Institute of Education, Mumbai

    Bindu Thirumalai, CEIAR, TISS

    Ananya Chatterji, CEIAR, TISS

    Authoring team

    Ananya Chatterji, CEIAR, TISS

    Sunil Kumar, CEIAR, TISS


    TISS-COOL is supported by Tata Institute of Social Sciences, and grants from the Tata Trusts and Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission for Teachers and Teaching.

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