PGDEL course

Curriculum of Technology for education leaders

Background:

Education leaders of the technology age need to be IT savvy and should be able to consume IT resources effectively to be more productive. Current batch of PGDEL ranges in the age group of 27-40 and group has basic understanding of technology. Group appreciates that using technology will be very useful for them. Group has shown inclination to learn following topics.

Technology for enhancing course Delivery:

1. Introduction of PowerPoint needs to be given to the students. PowerPoint enhances quality of delivery in the class room. A handbook for PowerPoint can be used for the delivery of the course. There should be group project where everyone presents a topic of their choice using powerpoint. (Powerpoint has been covered very well in Shuchi Grover’s course. Students are using the tool for all their presentation. Its been quite effective)
2. Multimedia tools: Multimedia tools like audio and video are used to enhance course delivery. Short module that will help students to understand various kinds of multimedia format and how they can edit the media and embed the media as part of their presentation. A 2-3 page document needs to be prepared that will be shared with the students along with the verbal instructions being given. One project that covers making a small clipping from and already existing video. (This has not been covered and needs to be covered)



Collaboration and discussion tools

1. Publish (Blog): Design and understand advantages and limitations of using a Blog. Understand multiple features of a Blog and how they should be using those features of the Blog. We should then have a Blog for each course where we can discuss various articles of our course. (Group is not very comfortable with Blog primarily because group has not used it often)
2. Publish (Website): Different kinds of website construction technology need to be explained so that group understands the difference between ASP, .NET, JAVA to be able to make management decisions in future. Basic website designing using HTML can be taught to them to just get an understanding of how things move on to the web. (Designing of web pages was covered by Shuchi. However due to lack of use of the website and not having support to help the students post the course retention is not very good)
3. Share: Understand the functionality e-groups and compare them against Blogs. Use e-groups effectively to discuss the readings on the net before they discuss them in the class room. (Present group is very comfortable with Groups)
4. Share: Use Gtalk, SKYPE and collaboration tools

Search tools

1. Search: Understand advanced features of search. Understand the meta search engines. This should be more of self learning that they paste on a Blog. (Group has some understanding but detail understanding needs to be provided)




Technology for computation:

1. Overview of programming languages and explain how logic is used to program complex phenomena. This is only to give them a brief of what programming languages are how they can take management decisions on different kind of programming languages. Handbook will need to be prepared for this. (group has no introduction to this)
2. Excel: Group should be able to use Excel effectively to analyze data, compute basic tables and then be able to prepare and present the budget. A full day session on excel is required with a pre designed handbook on the same. (Group has no understanding of this. )
3. Overview of databases and their utilities. Only displaying examples of some databases.

Computer Hardware, Network, Maintenance:

1. Overview of evolution of different kinds of applications and how processor sppeds have preceded the requirement of applications.
2. Overview of Hardware network explaining how multiple computers interact on an internal network.
3. Overview of maintenance of a network and how one should plan the maintenance of the network.


Delivery mechanism:

Course will be delivered in the computer center. Course should be divided over time for better absorption and internal resources should be able to guide the students over an extended period of time. Technology for enhancing delivery and, collaboration and discussion tools should be used effectively during the course delivery and presentation to ensure that the learning is internalized. Details of each one of the courses with readings and evaluation process needs to be worked out in detail.