Departmental Policy regarding MOOCs and Webinars for the Students

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING COLLEGE, BHARUCH

Departmental Policy regarding MOOCs and Webinars for the Students

 

PREAMBLE:

In this dynamically changing scenario of education, online learning has become a norm. Currently, students feel themselves more comfortable when content is delivered through conventional manner i.e. chalk-duster teaching, books, notes etc. However, education across the world is shifting from conventional to modern tools such as online lectures, performing experiments in the virtual laboratory, studies through virtual and augmented reality etc. Since current generation in colleges are in transition state, it poses a great challenge to educational system to transfer them in this new mould so that they can adapt to newer changes in teaching-learning process and also become self reliant for future knowledge acquisition. It is therefore necessary to introduce an element of self learning during regular course of action. In this context, Department of Electrical Engineering resolves the following,

1. Encouragement for MOOCs: Students will be encouraged to adopt self learning through various MOOCs such as edX, Coursera, Udemy, Swayam, NPTEL etc. Since AICTE is giving major emphasis on SWAYAM courses and even New Education Policy 2020 allows credit transfers in regular studies, it will be good if students join these courses. At present GTU does not allow credit transfer, therefore to promote this activity, it is proposed to incentivize students who complete such courses, in the following manner,

 

a. A student who joins a MOOC course related to the theory subject/subject laboratory offered in current semester or subsequent semester/year and produces a final assessment certificate, then 50% marks will be directly credited to the student in internal evaluation component of that subject and he/she will be assessed for remaining 50% only. If a student joins the course and does not appear in final assessment exam but overall scores more than 60% in the quizzes/assignments then, 25% marks will be directly assigned to the student in internal evaluation of that subject and he will be assessed for remaining 75% only.

 

b. If a MOOC course is of generic in nature or of technical subject which is not covered under current syllabus and he/she gets its certificate, he/she will get 9 points under 100 point activities.

2. Encouragement to attend Webinars: Many organizations are dedicatedly working to spread current field practices among various technical communities. Usually such topics are not covered in regular syllabus content. Since this is an opportunity for every student to get know how of the field practices, students must be encouraged to join such webinars and acquire knowledge beyond syllabus which will make them better prepared for employment. To encourage for the same, it is decided to incentivize the students in following manner

 

a. Departmental faculty will identify webinars related to the current semester subjects and will notify the same to the students. The students, who are registered, will undertake a quiz prepared by the concerned faculty based on the webinar content. If a student scores more than 60% in the quiz then, 25% marks will be directly assigned to the student in the internal evaluation component of that subject.

                         

b. If any student joins a webinar which is generic in nature or of technical subject which is not covered under current syllabus and he/she gets its participation certificate, he/she will get 3 points under 100 point activities.

                         

3. Total incentive due to above, in total, cannot be more than 50% of internal evaluation. A student will have to remain present in internal evaluation as and when asked to, without which above criteria will be treated null and void.

 

All the students are hereby instructed to inform Prof. Nikunj Dhimmar or Prof. Ami Patel about their registration on any MOOC platform or Webinar to avail above incentives.