Sunday 29 June 2014

Training of Agricultural Extension Officers on Development of Multimedia-based Distance Education Materials

The training was conducted by the Dr Santally acting as consultant to the Commonwealth of Learning to train 15 extension officers of the Food and Agricultural Research Extension Institute. It was a 10-day training spanned over a period of 1 month in May-June 2014.

Training Objectives
The objectives were such that it was expected, that at the end, participants would be able to
  • Design a storyboard for an interactive multimedia course
  • Use an e-learning authoring tool to design good-quality interactive learning resources
  • Convert and burn interactive materials into DVD format
  • Design and implement self-assessment instruments in an elearning environment
  • Manipulate images and videos to create simple animations in a pedagogical context
  • Mount a full-fledge e-learning short course to be deployed on PC and/or mobile devices
Technical Competencies
  • Image editing and video manipulation software (Movie Maker and Photoshop/Gimp)
  • Stop-Motion Animation
  • E-learning authoring tools (Articulate Storyline Suite)
  • DVD production (DVD Maker) 
Participants working in groups to have hands-on practice on Stop-Motion Techniques....
 

Participants having hands-on practice on specialized e-learning authoring tools.

 

The polemic surrounding University Ranking of UniRank (4icu.org) : The case of UoM being 85th in the African Top 100

This is an interview I gave to the News on Sunday paper that appeared on 26th July 2020. 1. There is a controversy about the ranking of ...