Policy.pptx
- 1. Policy/Guidelines for development of SLM Text color Black Text color green Existing Proposed
- 2. Outline • Objectives • Development process
- 3. Objective of Self learning material (SLM) • Facilitate distance/online learners by following consideration • Clearly stated objectives, intended learning outcomes, study guidance and advice, and suggested reference material • Self explanatory, self contained, illustrative, easily comprehensible and modules such as units and blocks • Adequate mechanism for learners to provide feedback on understanding • Periodic revision to improve support and quality
- 4. What does student need? • Well formatted SLM document • Easy to understand • Has uniform flow of information • Explanation of new terms • Examples to understand • Problems to practice
- 5. Process for SLM development • Online Training for faculty members • To familiarize them with word template • Allotment to unit/course to faculty member or members • Content Writing and compilation • Verification of Content (standards) by examination • Plagiarism check • Grammar check • Vetting of SLM • Printing of SLM • Dispatch of SLM • Delivery confirmation
- 6. Academic guidelines • SLM • Standard format for SLM • Course format and typographical format • Two way communication • User friendly, in-formal and friendly tone (‘You’, ’we’ style of writing) • Experience based activities and assignments
- 7. Unit consists of following (from Academic guidelines) • Section 1: Objectives • Section 2: Introduction • Section 3: Subject matter • Section 5: Summary • Section 6: Keywords/Glossary • Section 7: Self-Assessment/Evaluation • Section 8: Review Questions • Section 9: Further/Suggested reading
- 8. Signs used in SLM • Caution • Notes • Tasks • Book icon • Online links • Did you know? • Pictures/graphics/schematics • Lab exercise • Case studies • Examples
- 9. Text in SLM • Number of words/pages must be sufficient to make independent learning possible. • Language should be very simple. • Topic should be presented in systematic and logical manner
- 10. Multimedia supplements • Multimedia supplements may include • Images for which resolution should be about 600 dpi, • animations, • graphics, • video or audio clips, • line drawings, • hand drawings.
- 11. Features of SLM • Consistent layout and format • Overview of content • Unit structure at beginning of unit • Plenty of examples • References to prior learning • National and international case studies • Content synchronized with learning objectives and outcomes • Icons used in explanation • Appropriate sequence of material • Explanation of technical, new stuff, difficult terms in glossary • Suggested reading (both printed and outline)
- 12. Requirements from Faculty • Self learning material (SLM) • 14 units per course • 13-15 pages per unit
- 13. Proposed outline
- 14. Suggestions • Short sentences • Long paragraphs
- 15. Concerns • Plagiarism and copy right issues (Legal) • Faculty copying and pasting from online resources • Language of faculty not understandable • Not captioning figures and tables • Not following format laid out • Section and sub-sections numbering not defined
- 16. Process of realization • Requirement of faculty member • Training to faculty member for using standard word Template (1 hour) • Tentative Time plan for submission of different units (Flexible 14 weeks to 21 weeks) • Unit 1 by Week 1 • Unit 2 by Week 2 • ……. • ……. • Unit 14 by Week 14 • Submission of attachments by faculty (Turnitin report for plagiarism and Grammarly check report for erroneous grammar) • Team to manage collection and follow up of manuscripts and attachment (1 day – 1week) • Team to allocate the unit to evaluate content quality and format quality • Weekly activity of editorial team to evaluate for (1 day – 2 weeks) • Proof reading and Content quality (Verification by reading by Cross faculty members or HoDs) • Content addition wherever possible with clear highlights • Printed document to be made available to faculty members, if possible. • Follow up for resubmission • Format quality (Cross checking of Chapter 1 against format) • Resend to faculty to correct • Final manuscript to be ready for printing or uploading (tentative Week 24)
- 17. Editorial team has three tasks • Proofreading • Format checking • Editing/Sending for editing
- 18. Resources needed by teachers for compilation • Teacher’s resources • ebooks • Online resources web sites for limited images, text etc. • Physical books
- 19. How a teacher prepares SLM (First submission)? • Understand unit objectives • Enlisting of main topics • Prepare Outline • Write outline in template • Write Introduction • Write ‘Topic 1’ as outlined • Describe and compile text • Compile ‘figures’ • Merge to form ‘Topic 1’ • Add and describe ‘sub-topic1’ • Ask Objectives • Develop as per 8 sections of ‘Policy/guideline document • Write ‘Topic 2’ as outlined • Describe and compile text • Compile ‘figures and tables’ • Merge to form ‘Topic 2’ • Add and describe ‘sub-topic2’ • Ask Objectives ……….. ……….. ………….. • Write ‘summary’ as outlined • 8 Bulleted points • Write keywords/glossary • Self assessment • 15-20 objectives (multiple choice, Fill in the blanks, match, True False) • Answer objectives in end • Review Questions/problems • Descriptive questions • Suggested readings • Websites/books/journals
- 20. Stakeholder • Teacher • Student • Editor (verification of format) • Editor (verification of content quality) • Follow up for content and resubmission • Examination
- 21. Tips for faculty • Use 6W’s to compile the knowledge (What, where, Why, How, When, What) • Use ebooks and physical books • Use the template format • May use copy and paste (subject to limit from a single source)
- 22. Laying content quality guidelines • How much plagiarism is allowed? • How to collect images from physical books? • Take photo with camera and add to content. • Text must be typed, figures and tables must be labeled. • Content must be non searchable??
- 23. Text format • Fonts • Formatting sections, sub-sections and sub-subsections • Style, spacing and numbering in sections, and sub sections
- 24. Current issues of SLM • All submissions will be different as formats are not defined clearly • Lack many points such as • Captioning for figures needed or not • Captions for tables needed or not • Size of all captions • Whether table of contents needed or not • Format of table of contents • Format of Objectives • Numbering of Titles and subtitles needed or not • Format for numbering of titles • Type of pictures, tables, etc. needed (Colored pictures may not work well in black and white printing) • Size of pictures and tables • Size of tentative paragraphs (defining too large) • Submission format of file with specification of name of unit
- 25. Current issues and suggestions • Editing without a template will lead to accumulation of more working hours and delay in submission • A standard template may help to reduce the time drastically and ensure a consistent format throughout. • All formatting and explanation of formatting done in the template so that faculty finds it easy to use. • Easy to train when single template is given to faculty • Next time, faculty may find it easy to use.
- 26. THANKS