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Empowering Learners through Virtual Labs

Learning is effective when you are actively involved while understanding the concepts. Imagine the mastery achieved if you are allowed to explore apart from just performing the activity for a given data.

The knowledge that results due to sheer understanding of the concepts is immense and makes further learning related to the concepts easier. The activities in simulated environment are so fun oriented, you simply enjoy learning.

You can explore simulated environments in various subjects by clicking here. The labster team is proud to offer an exciting simulated environment for the next generation of scientists to change the world.

In the following video,  Michael Bodekaer, Labster CEO in his TED talk, explains how learning has improved when taught through simulated environments.

 

Video source: https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_bodekaer_this_virtual_lab_will_revolutionize_science_class

Teno App, India’s Free to Use Mobile ERP for Schools

I would like to ask all school admins, what is the ERP they are using if they have switched over to complete digitization. If not, they can explore Teno, a free to use mobile ERP for schools. Even if they are already using some, they can still explore the features of Teno and find out how it fares with the existing one.

‘Teno app allows school administrators, teachers and parents to stay connected at all times via real time messaging. Teno has comprehensive features ranging from user control management to multimedia messaging support’.

Teno enables

• Teachers to have one-to-one chat with parents and offer feedback about the student’s performance
• Schools to create class wise groups so that teachers can share important announcements, information with parents
• Schools to share class work / homework in various doc, image and multimedia formats
• Parents to make online fee payment
• Teachers to take attendance so that school admits can get online reports

Interested in knowing how Teno works? Then watch the video given below.

The app can be used on Android, iOS and Windows based phones.

Hope you enjoy using Teno!

Google Expeditions a VR Tool to Enhance Learning

 Google Expeditions is a virtual-reality (VR) teaching tool.

It enables you to swim with sharks, walk through a museum, visit outer space, and explore more wonderful experiences without leaving the classroom. There are nearly 500 expeditions available and more are in development.

The following video suggests how the classroom would be and how students experience the ‘Wow’ factor when Expeditions is used in classroom.

 

Source : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MQ9yG_QfDA

So how would you get started?

You can get started by either buying the kit or by building your own kit.

For buying the kit, visit the following hyperlink and follow the instructions provided on webpage.

Get an Expeditions kit

In case you are building your set, then you must have the following things    

• A mobile device, preferable tablet for the guide (teacher)
• Mobile phones along with suitable VR viewers for learners
• A router to allow the Expeditions to run over local wi-fi network

The mobile phone must have a gyroscope and accelerometer and 1 GB ram with Android 4.4 and later or iOS 8.0 and later

Next you have to download the Expeditions app on your mobile phone and select the role of ‘Guide’ if you are going to lead your class and click the ‘Lead’ button.

For learners, they can click the ‘Follow’ button and follow the guide.

You are now ready to immerse your learners with the VR experience that your learners would definitely enjoy.

Enhancing Learning by Including AR/VR

In today’s classroom capturing student’s attention is very difficult. What activities you are including to make their learning interesting?

You can make learning interesting by introducing EON Experience AVR. EON Reality has developed an Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) based personalized learning library, so that students can be engaged with gamified AR / VR lessons that would promote their creativity across various subjects such as anatomy, biology, geography, history, physics, and astronomy.

 

The following video suggests how the future classroom would be.

 

To read the entire blog post, please visit https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/enhancing-learning-including-arvr-dr-kumuda-gururao as I have published the article on LinkedIn.

Bridging Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics

With the entry of machine learning, AI and deep learning in various fields, the field of education too is not lagging behind in embracing and implementing the applications of them.

I shall first explain what is educational data mining (EDM) and learning analytics (LA) and then proceed on to bridging EDM and LA.

‘Educational Data Mining (EDM) is an emerging discipline, concerned with developing methods for exploring the unique types of data that come from educational settings, and using those methods to better understand students, and the settings which they learn in’. 

The environments from where the educational data is collected include classrooms where blended mode of teaching is offered, online education, social networks, online chats with humans and bots, online questionnaires, feedback, conferences / seminars etc (using xAPI)). The types of data collected include student profiles, interactive data that includes interaction with system, peers, faculty. These data must be visualized so that the objective of EDM, that is, to improve learning is realized.

 

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To read the entire blog post, please visit the following link as I have published the article on LinkedIn at

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/bridging-educational-data-mining-learning-analytics-dr-kumuda-gururao

 

 

 

Make Your Video Interactive Using Google Forms

Google Forms enable you to create not merely various types of assessment questions but also make your video interactive.

You can access Google Forms by visiting the following URL https://www.google.co.in/forms/about/ and clicking the button ‘Go to Google Forms’.

Login using your Gmail id.                       

Various templates are available and you can choose according to your own requirement.

 

When you click ‘+’, you get the following screen shot.

 

The drop down menu in the ‘Multiple Choice’ allows you to create various types of questions like short answer,  paragraph, checkboxes etc.

Apart from that, it enables you to add text, image, video and various sections.

Hence you can suggest a YouTube video (by providing it’s URL) relevant to your class and add questions, thus making it interactive.

You can access the responses of your students and decide the future course of action depending on their responses.

I have used for the course I handle, ‘Digital Marketing Professional Program in Association with Google’ for Manipal Global in Chennai.

I have enjoyed using it and the students too, as it refrains them from passively watching the video.

Hope you too will enjoy creating interactive videos using Google Forms.

How to Gamily Learning by Using Kahoot

Kahoot is a highly motivating app for learning that enables you to create interesting games and quizzes by adding images, video and text. Even students can create games and they need not be played in class alone. They can be played against other students anywhere in the world.

 

The following video illustrates how you can use a existing game and also create a new one.

Enjoy learning and explore Kahoot.

 

 

Content Controller

Rustici Software, leader of eLearning standards like SCORM, AICC and xAPI have created a new application called ‘Content Controller’ that changes ways of deploying, controlling and tracking your content.

Content Controller enables you to license your content on your terms.  It is offered as CaaS. (Content as a Service).

According to Rustici Software, the License Management Tools let you build and protect revenue stream as you can manage time effectively.

It lets you deliver your content to any LMS irrespective of what eLearning standard is being used.

The content analytics offers real time sharable reports enabling you to take strategic business decisions. It allows the learner to choose the language in which he wants to study, though you can upload the content in only one language.

Hence if you want to see Content Controller in action, then click here to see the demo of the application.

Enhancing Deep Learning through Education / Training

Watch the slideshow ‘Enhancing Deep Learning through Education / Training’ 

Enhancing Deep learning through Education / Training from Dr.Kumuda Gururao

 

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