Review Workshop Schedule

IGNOU, New Delhi, India & BOU, Dhaka, Bangladesh

REVIEW WORKSHOP ON DEVELOPMENT OF SLMs FOR STAFF OF BANGLADESH OEPN SCHOOL (April 26-30, 2008) Dhaka, Bangladesh

Day, Date & Time	Topic	Objectives	Strategy	Resources
Saturday, April 26, 2008
1000 - 1100 hrs.	Inaugural Session		Inauguration by the Vice Chancellor, BOU
1100 - 1115 hrs. TEA BREAK
1115 - 1315 hrs.	Dvt. of SLMs : Progress and problems Prof. Santosh Panda and C.R.K Murthy	To take stock; ascertain difficulties and limitations	Sharing of views and actual progress on each one’s unit; ascertaining further work to be undertaken	Actual course units of the participants and RPs
1315 - 1415 hrs. LUNCH BREAK
1415 - 1630 hrs. (including tea break)	Areas of concern: content and presentation within units Prof. Santosh Panda and C.R.K Murthy	To highlight the common concerns and requirements and unit-specific tasks to be completed	Presentation by RPs on the areas of concern and corrective action needed	Course units and RPs; and some sample units at school level
Sunday, April 27, 2008
1000 - 1130 hrs.	Working with Wiki Educator (Expert participants and RPs)	To share concern and problems on working on Wiki; remedial measures	Those facing difficulties shall demo their Wiki Units, followed by corrective action by RPs	Wiki Educator RPs Expert participants
1130 - 1145 hrs. TEA BREAK
1145 - 1300 hrs.	Curriculum Development and Instructional Design Revisited (Santosh Panda & C.R.K Murthy)	Relook at and revise the unit design and other access devices	Presentation by RPs (30 mts); individual activity by participants	Actual course units of the participants and RPs
1300 - 1400 hrs. LUNCH BREAK
1400 - 1500 hrs.	Hands-on work on computer by each participants: Revising units (C.R.K Murthy and Santosh Panda)	To revise each unit	Individual work on one’s own unit (to be Wiki enabled)	Practical work on computer
1500 - 1515 hrs. TEA BREAK
1515 - 1630 hrs.	Presentation by each participant	To present what one has done so far and receive suggestions for improvement	Each participant’s presentation and discussion	Peer review and comments by RPs and peers
Monday, April 28, 2008
1000 - 1100 hrs.	Editing of Units : Content (Santosh Panda)	To describe the mechanism of content editing; actual editing by participants	Presentation by RP and practical work by each participant	IGNOU HB 6 on editing
1100 - 1115 hrs. TEA BREAK
1115 - 1300 hrs.	Editing of Units : Format (C.R.K Murthy)	To describe the mechanism of format editing; actual editing by participants	Presentation by RP and practical work by each participant	IGNOU HB 5 on SLMD
1300 - 1400 hrs. LUNCH BREAK
1400 - 1500 hrs.	Editing of Units: Language and Copy Editing; individual work by participants (Santosh Panda)	To describe the mechanism of language and copy editing for in-house style; actual editing by participants	Presentation by RP and practical work by each participant	IGNOU HB 6 on editing
1500 - 1515 hrs. TEA BREAK
1515 - 1630	Developmental Testing/Piloting (C.R.K Murthy)	To describe the process of developmental testing, and chalking out a plan for piloting of units	Presentation by RP and group work for piloting plan	Chapter by Fred Lockwood
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
1000 - 1130 hrs	Open Education Resource (Santosh Panda)	To highlight the importance and mechanism of copyright; to warn against plagiarism	Presentation by RP and discussion	Chapter on Copyright for authors, educators and librarians, by Julien Hofman and Paul West
1130 - 1245 hrs. TEA BREAK
1145 - 1300	Role and Mechanisms of Learner Support Services '(C.R.K Murthy)	To link up SLMs with other learner support services including material printing and despatch	Presentation by RP and discussion	IGNOU HB 9 on Learner Support
1300 - 1400 hrs. LUNCH BREAK
1400 - 1500 hrs.	Linking SLMs to Assessment and Assignments (C.R.K Murthy & Santosh Panda)	To revise the assessment strategy and to design assignments for the course	Presentation by RPs and discussion	IGNOU HB 4 on Assessment in Distance Education
1500 - 1515 hrs. TEA BREAK
1515 - 1630 hrs.	Development of Assignments : Group work (RPs)	Group work	Participants hands on development of an assignment each	RPs
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
1000 - 1115	Counselling and Tutoring in DE (C.R.K Murthy)	To describe the process of tutoring and counselling, and training of tutors	Presentation by RP and discussion	IGNOU HB 3 on Academic Counselling
1115 - 1300 hrs.	Media Selection and Integration (Santosh Panda)	To highlight the media and technology developments in DE, and the process of media selection and integration	Presentation by the RP and discussion	IGNOU HB 7 on Media and Technology in DE
1300 - 1400 hrs. LUNCH BREAK
1400 - 1500 hrs.	Open Session	To discuss issues related to both workshops and future plan of action: building the workshop output into the overall material development within BOS/BOU	RPs to moderate
1500 - 1600 hrs.	WS Evaluation and Concluding Session	To reflect on what has been achieved and what needs to be done; constraints and follow up; plan of action	Discussion, reflection, agreement	All RPs, participants, organisers

Resource Persons: Prof. Santosh Panda, Director STRIDE & Prof. C.R.K Murthy, Professor of DE, STRIDE
(COL Inhouse Style for Material Development Handbook as the base material too)