Teaching Development Life Cycle

A regular teaching job involves the following stages

• Identify Need- spot a need for a course
• Course requirement analysis
• Course design
• Course content- specification, scope, depth of coverage etc
• Course delivery plan and schedule
• Course delivery and implementation
• Continuous and end of the course evaluation
• Course completion and review

The Teaching Process: Defined and its stages

Teaching may be defined as a process of converting outside knowledge into outside values i.e. learning deliverable. A learning deliverable may a lecture, class notes or lab experiment etc. However, teaching development life cycle involves few more phases which are listed here.

• Curriculum Design
• Content aggregation
• Lesson Plans
• Learning deliverable- Presentations, notes
• Content delivery
• Content Management

Web is a mother of all Resources

Web is veritable resource and is growing. The rate of growth and its increasing reach is making it a destination for everyone. As a results both service providers and resource generators are using web as a means to offer their products and services. A simple survey on the web indicates that it is growing as a great source of resources and probably end up as the great source of all resources in future. As a faculty I have found every kind resource on web that might be needed by a teacher. For instance online docs help me publish and online quizzes help me test my students. In total web is a mother of all resources if not now, in a very short time

Web as an educational resource: History

Web as an educational resource was recognised lack back. Way back in 1995, in the paper titled Advanced Educational uses of the World Wide Web, the authors predicted that use of web for educational purpose would evolve along two axes: (1) use of the technology on a closed corpus of educational material , (2) use of this technology on an organized structure of links for an open corpus of material.

Later in 2001, A New Paradigm in Teaching Computer Science was published by Mr. Tan Tuck Choy, in CDTL Brief

WebTeach: A Web Paradigm for Teaching

The explosive emergence of web as a fountainhead of all kinds of resources has been demanding a new paradigm in every human endeavour. Education is no exception. Web at the same time has become a mother of all resources- backbone of all communications- a play ground for all experiments and a common place of action for increasing number of people and institutions.

Education is one of those human endeavours which has been highly affected and greatly benefited by the web phenomenon. I teach in the department of computer science and engineering at SDM College of Engineering and Technology, Dharwad, India. I have been exploring web resources and incorporating them into my teaching process for quiet sometime. Way back in 2000, I used email as a means of sending questions to students and receiving answers to them as part of my basic skills lab evaluation. More recently, I used a combination of email, online docs to conduct seminars by about 120+ students almost entirely eliminating all paper work. In this blog, I shall be describing my approach for using web resources in my teaching process