Providing academic leadership for developing an effective learning environment for students, researchers by designing and implementing innovative ICT Plan and Strategy.
Planning, developing and implementing an effective ICT Policy of the University and Higher Education Institutions with emphasis on Educational Planning and Management, encompassing all aspects of e-learning and e-governance.
Providing end-to-end technology solutions, system integration, standard operating procedures for networking, connectivity, security, system application and development and application of software.
Guiding and monitoring development of e-governance structure of the University covering all academic, administrative, financial operations along with appropriate project management tools, techniques, automation of admission, assessment and tracking of life cycle of research scholars.
Designing innovative and effective modules for training and organizing ICT based programs in educational planning and administration on e-learning platform.
With the changing paradigms in teaching learning, we have witnessed a change in the role of teachers and learners depending upon formal education systems and open and flexible education systems. With Internet at the helm of affairs in the twenty-first century educational systems a learner is the pivot of the learning process. With education gearing up to meet the expectations of fourth industrial age revolution, a learner has a much more dynamic role in not only the learning, but in the assessment of learning too. Making provisions for reflective exercises, collaborative projects, semantic mapping, or portfolio development can easily be promoted through online technology in creating collaborative and socially inclusive instructional interventions. Not diminishing their values, however, a shift from previously dominant philosophies of behaviourism and cognitivism can be observed towards a more encompassing collaborativist and constructivist ideology.
In the wake of digital initiatives of Govt of India, where UGC has allowed launching of online courses and Govt of India promoting creating courses on MOOC platform SWAYAM, it is pertinent to examine the instructional design approaches adopted by Indian Higher Education Institutions.
The study would contribute to examine the participation of learners of these digital media and address the causes of drop-outs from courses if that is due to instructional design issues. This study would further bring out recommendations on best practices on instructional design strategies.
To examine the status of LMS used by faculty and students in Indian Higher Education Institutions.
To identify the models of instructional design being used by higher education institutions.
To investigate the reasons for offering or not offering MOOCs on SWAYAM
To examine the processes for course planning, designing, production, delivery, assessment, support and credentials or accreditation.
To identify the means and mechanisms of assessment and feedback to learners.
To identify kinds of media adopted by faculty for course design and delivery.
To create demographic profile of instructional designers in Indian Higher Education Institutions.
To record the experiences of instructional designers for effective instructional design of courses
Literature Review on Indian Higher Education System and Instructional Design
Designing the Survey Instrument and its reliability / validity
Conduct of One round of Online Survey was done
Central university
161
State university
605
Deemed to be university
32
Private university
49
Total
847