Use of Digital Technology for Effective Learning-A Best Practice

Pravin Sadashivrao Kale,

Lecturer in Education,
Vidya Pratisthan’s College of Education ,
Baramati,Dist.Pune
e-mail –ppskale12@rediffmail.com
Mobile - 09325710243
1. Title of the Practice: - Audio recording of classroom lectures for the subject
‘Instructional System Design’
2. The Context that required the initiation of the practice:-
In the year 2008 – University of Pune has revised the syllabus of B.Ed. Course.
University has taken many initiatives to introduce new topics and papers to face the
challenges of 21st century. Information Communication Technology and Instruction
System in this paper the section ‘Instructional System’ is newly introduced by the
university. This section is for forty marks with twenty marks practical.

During the academic year 2008-09 the teaching of this paper has started but
references were mainly available in English Language and on the websites only. The
teacher has taken (Mr. Pravin Kale) information from the websites, journals, and books
and translated in Marathi and used this material for classroom teaching.

B.Ed. students are from various backgrounds students find difficult to understand
new concepts in ‘Instructional System’ Moreover reference material was also not
available in Marathi.

So, the teacher has recorded the lectures conducted in the classroom, and made
available for the students in the computer lab. All the lectures are downloaded on the
every computer in lab. Students referred these lectures again to clear the concepts, to take
notes in their leisure time. Some students were having computers, CD player at their
home; they have copied these lectures on CDs, pen drives for their references.

3. Objectives of the Practice:-

1) To provide reference material of ‘Instructional system’ to the students.

2) To help the students to prepare written nots of Instructional system.
3) To enable the students to understand newly introduced concepts in
Instructional system design.
4) To help the students to use technology for active learning.
 5) To make optimum use the technology for teaching learning.

4. The Practice:-

In the revised syllabus of B.Ed. the University of Pune has introduced the paper of
‘Instructional system’ in this paper most of the concepts are new for the B.Ed. students,
as the students are from various backgrounds major problem was that all the reference
material was available in English on the websites. No Marathi books were available in
the library; so Mr. Pravin Kale, Lecturer in Education, subject teacher as ‘Instructional
system’ gathered all the references and used it for classroom teaching .It was requirement
that there should be some material for the students ’reference Mr. Pravin Kale has
recorded the classroom lectures with the help of I-POD .During the lecture I-POD & it’s
mike was kept in the pocket. Lectures of following topics were recorded.

1. Benefits of Synectic model

2. Mastery learning model.
3. Need, importance and used of Technology for instruction.
4. Principles of selecting of technology for instruction.
5. Developing self – Instructional material.
6. Developing computer Assisted instruction program, concepts and steps.
7. Preparation of instructional design for online learning.
8. Individual testing.
9. Group Testing.
10. Field testing.
11. Master validation.
12. CIPP – model.
13. Intrinsic evaluation.

For above mentioned topics reference material was not available in

Marathi.
Recorded lectures were made available to the students in computer lab, students referred
these lectures to prepare written notes, to understand difficult concepts. Leisure time has
been utilized by the students for this activity. Some of the students were having
computers CD players at their homes / hostels they have copied the recorded lecturers on
their pen drives / CDs. for reference. The college is proposed to keep these lectures on the
blogs for the reference of other colleges& if required it will be provided through e-mail,
or CD will made available.

5. Obstacles faced if any and strategies adopted to overcome them.

A few problems were faced during this practice:-

1. At the beginning of the lecture recording started, some of the times important
notices from the office, were circulated during lectures all were recoded, but
with the help of soft wares we are trying to cut that much part. During the
 black board writing. Some gap is recorded; when there is oral participation
from students it is not clearly recorded.

2. Initially recorded lecture by default makes amr file, a few softwares are able
to run this type of file and it is not possible to run amr type file on CD or
DVD player so, Mr. Pravin Kale has converted this amr file in to MP3 format
with the help of ‘switch setup’, a useful software to convert amr files in to
MP3.

3 With the help of ‘Switch set -up’ amr files are converted in to MP3 format but during
this process size of file get increased e.g. 20 mb to 40 mb, if size increases it is difficult
for the students to get such files in to pen drives or CDs. Or send such files through e-
mails. That’s why with the help of soft were MP3 Ring tone gold Size of MP3 files has
been reduced. Finally all prepared lectures were made available to the students.

6. Impact of Practice:-

Good impact of this practice has been observed by the subject teacher, Mr. P.S.
Kale, as voluntarily students copied lectures in their Pen drives students has prepared
notes on the basis of these lectures. To understand difficult concepts students listened
concern lecturers twice and result was really good. Although it was a new paper,
reference material was not available in mother lounges with the help of this practice
students scored good marks in university examination.

7. Resources required:-

I Pod with at least 100 mb free space for audio recording.

8. about the Institution.

1. Name of the Institution.-Vdyapratisthn’s College of Education ,Baramati

2. Year of Establishment.-1990

3. Address- Vidyanagri ,MIDC [Resi.Zone],Bhigwan Road ,Baramati

4. Grade awarded by NAAC.- B++

5. e-mail – ppskale12@rediffmail.com

6. Website.- www.vpedu.org