WORKSHOP ON MOODLE LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Don Bosco college of Engineering under the Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching organized a one – day   Workshop on Moodle Learning Management System. Around 103 Remote Centres participated in this workshop all over India, Don Bosco College Of Engineering being one of them. The remote center coordinator of the workshop was Prof.Amrita Naik and workshop coordinator was Prof. Steefni Ema Cruz. The entire workshop was guided by Prof. Steefni Ema Cruz and Mr Amit Sapkal. Moodle is a system which helps teachers and educators to create an online platform for more adaptive and customized learning. In the inaugural function, Prof. Kannan Moudgalya, Principal Investigator,  PMMMNMTT and Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay spoke of the importance of mastering the digital learning systems to make teaching more interesting to the students not only in higher education but also in schools. He said that in this generation, when students are living in the digital world, the method of chalk and talk has to be rethought.

Following this Ms. Nancy Varkey introduced the Spoken Tutorial Forum. The workshop was solely based on this Spoken Tutorial Forum wherein participants were introduced to 17 videos on how to install and work on the Moodle system.

The participants of the workshop were teachers and system  admin from various colleges   in the states such as Padre Conceição College of Engineering, Agnel Institute of Technology and Design, Shree Rayeshwar Institute of Engineering ,Parvatibai Chowgule college, Rosary College of Commerce/Arts and schools such as Kendriya Vidyalaya, Vidya Vikas Academy etc. The participants had to watch each of these videos, follow the instructions and replicate the same in the Moodle system. If there were any difficulties then such questions were to be put up on the forum which was then replied to by the organizers. This was done so that all users of Moodle can see the questions and answers and get their issues resolved. This workshop was entirely based on self-learning so that the participants familiarized themselves to Moodle by getting a first-hand experience.

For the valedictory function, there was a panel discussion wherein the participants asked difficulties related to the working of Moodle in their respective Remote Centres and was answered by Prof. Kannan Moudgalya and Ms. Nirmala Venkat.