NDLI: Forum: a new approach for the production of educational content

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Coelho, Marcelo Daviault, Christine
Abstract	eLearning is developing at an ever increasing rate as universities and colleges recognize its vast potential to reach a deeper and fragmented student pool. For a while, eLearning was touted as the future of education, the goal we should be aiming for to answer the needs of a diversified student population with requirements predicated by the need to constantly learn new things coupled with the realities of daily life.However, as the rosy glow has faded somewhat, educators, students, and researchers alike, have raised important issues to challenge some of our assumptions as producers of on-line course content. Instructors cite a lack of time and training and concerns over security, students complain of feeling isolated and poorly stimulated by uninspiring content, while researchers question the use of "sacred" concepts such as interactivity and their real impact on the user experience.As designers and developers of on-line content for a university, we have had to address these issues to produce content that reflects, in the end, more accurately what the ultimate users feel comfortable with, but also reaches the goals set forth by faculty. This forum will focus on some of these issues and the process we went through to come up with possible solutions. We will use as an illustration of our results, an on-line course dedicated to the study of Organized Crime that we are in the process of developing and that proposes some ideas to create more appealing and enriching educational on-line content.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	3
Page Count	3
File Format	PDF
DOI	10.1145/965106.965125
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2003-07-27
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in