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Open Education Resource-Basics of
Technical Writing
Submitted by
Dr.R.Latha Devi and Dr.B.C.Anish Krishnan
Nayar
Department of English
University College of Engineering, Nagercoil-
629004
Contents
Section I – Introduction
Section II - Content Decisions
Section III – Description of Open
Education Resources (OER)
Section IV - Effectiveness
Section V – Individual Effort and Collective Effort
Section VI - Collaboration: What Next?
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Section I
Introduction
1.1 Brief Overview: This course, Basics of
Technical Writing aims at providing an
introduction to the field of technical
writing to learners who are new to it. This
course is makes extensive use of ICT. It
enables 360 degree, 24X7 learning
opportunity.
1.2 Rationale: Technical Writing plays an
important role in the academic and
professional life of Engineers and other
technologists. It has been found that more
than 50% of the lives of Engineers are
spent in technical communication. But much
attention is not given to it in existing
curriculum. Providing them with a basic
course would help them in their academic as
well as professional life.
1.3 Target Audience: The course is basically
designed for first semester BE students who
have to learn this as a part of their
Communicative English paper. However, the
course will be useful for any beginner of
Technical Writing
1.4 Tags/Characters: Writing, Technical
Writing, Flipped Class Rooms, Out of Class
Video
1.5 License: Creative Common License –Common
Attribute
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Section -2
Content Decisions
It was decided that the course will provide
a basic introduction to students on Technical
Writing.
2.1 Content Decisions: a) The course shall
contain short videos not exceeding 10 minutes,
screen casted videos, power points. b) The
content shall be at a beginner level. c) The
content shall be simple, uncomplicated and make
use of simple language d) the content shall
have LbD activity space embedded in it.
2.2. Pedagogic Decisions: The Course shall
provide complete learner autonomy. The course
shall make use of assessment techniques such as
Knowledge Quiz and Reflection Quiz that helps
in recalling and application.
2.3. Technological Discussions: The course uses
technologies such as screen casting, movie
maker, wordpress blog https://basicsoftechnicalwriting.wordpress.com/
Google forms and such.
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Section 3
Description of the OER
3.1. Learning Objectives: To provide an
introduction to technical writing and kindle an
interest in it.
3.2. Learning Outcome: Once a student has
completed this course he/she will be able to
define technical communication from normal
communication and understand the importance of
technical communication.
3.3. Structure of the Course: The course will
have three modules with questions after each
module. The modules will have videos/screen
castings/power points. The students will be
given an option to do the course in the
wordpress. Discussions will be moderated.
Feedback will be obtained through Google forms.
3.4. Given below are a few screen shots of the
wordpress blog.
Module 1
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Module 2
Module 3
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Module 4
Module 5
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Section IV
Effectiveness of the Course
4.1. The effectiveness of the course was
analyzed with the help of a questionnaire that
was distributed through Google forms. Given
below is a screen shot of the same.
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4.2. The course was found to be very effective.
The outcome chart is given below.
4.3.It was decided to include following changes
in the future.
a)To include more questions
b)To ensure the display of right answer and
rationale
c)To provide a progress report to the students.
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Section V
Individual Efforts and Collective Efforts
The team consisted of two members,
Dr.R.Latha Devi and Dr.B.C.Anish Krishnan
Nayar. A log of discussions is provided below.
30/9/2017 : Preliminary meeting and
discussion
2/10/2017 : Fixing Learning Objectives
and Learning Outcomes
3/10/2017 : Lesson plan
4/10/17 : Evaluation strategies
5/10/17 : Technological Strategies
6/10/17 : Preparation of Scripts for
video lectures
7/10/2017 : Preparation of questions
8/10/2017 : Editing and review of
materials
20/10/2017 : Hosting of the course
30/10/2017 : Student feedback
01/11/2017 : Analysis of Student feedback
and preparation of report.
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Contributions of Dr.R.Latha Devi(Team
leader) : a) Determined the appropriate
technological tools c)designed the word press
d)hosted the course in Word press e) prepared
the quiz questions e)Produced Screen casting.
Contributions of Dr.B.C.Anish Krishnan
Nayar: a) Identified the course b) designed
the course module c) produced videos d)
obtained and analyzed student feedbacks. e)
Prepared the report.
Joint Achievement: OER and an Online Course
on “Basics of Technical Writing” was designed,
developed and hosted. Feedbacks were obtained
and the course is now a part of OER corpus.
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Section VI
Collaboration: What Next?
It has been decided to collaborate with similar
teacher developers all over the world and
develop a complete “Technical Writing Course”.
The current course “Basics of Technical Writing
“ will be the first unit in it. There may be
four more units.
Reference:
1. Anderson, Technical Communication,
Cengage Learning publications,New Delhi.
2. Farhathullah, English for Business
Communication, Prism ,Bangalore.
Thank You for the Patient Reading
Dr.R.Latha Devi
Mail Id – [email protected]
Dr.B.C.Anish Krishnan Nayar
Mail Id – [email protected]
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