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Open Education Resource: Solar Energy Conversion System

Work done as part of AICTE approved FDP201X on

Pedagogy for Online and Blended Teaching Learning

Process by IIT Bombay

RC1367_001

Prafull Madhukar Tarwatkar

Smita Tolani

Trivelli Naidu

FDP201X on Pedagogy for Online and Blended Teaching Learning Process

OER on Solar Energy Conversion System by Prafull M. Tarwatkar, Smita Tolani, Trivelli Naidu

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Table of Contents

Open Education Resource: Solar Energy Conversion System ......................................... 1

About the OER....................................................................................................... 1

Learning Objectives .............................................................................................. 1

Helpful Documentation for Tool Use..................................................................... 2

Section 2: Design Decisions.............................................................................................. 3

Nature of Decisions taken........................................................................................ 3

Section 3: OER Description.............................................................................................. 5

Active OER............................................................................................................... 5

Lesson Settings.......................................................................................................... 5

How to use this OER................................................................................................. 16

Section 4: Evaluating Effectiveness of OER..................................................................... 17

Effectiveness at the student level............................................................................. 17

Effectiveness at consumer level............................................................................... 17

Section 5: Consolidated Log of Team Work..................................................................... 19

Section 6: Building a Community of MOODLE and Flipped Classroom Adopters........ 20

Possible Sources for Community Building ............................................................ 20

Plans for Community Building................................................................................. 20

Works Cited ...................................................................................................................... 21

Open Education Resource: Solar Energy Conversion System ii

1 Open Education Resource: Solar Energy Conversion System with MOODLE

RC1367_001

Prafull Madhukar Tarwatkar

Smita Tolani

Trivelli Naidu

Open Education Resource: Solar Energy Conversion System

About the OER

The open education resource is a collection of MOODLE Lesson activities that are useful for

students of First- & Second-year Engineering of any domain. There are three lessons as part of this

OER and each deal with an aspect related to Solar Energy Conversion System. This course is

useful across domains and can be a useful tool for: Knowledge Integration and Summary.

❖ OER document is downloadable from: https://prafulltarwatkar.wordpress.com/fdp201x/

❖ The OER Course is available on https://prafulltarwatkar.gnomio.com/login/index.php

❖ The OER Videos can also be downloaded from YouTube (Links are given on last page)

❖ Target Audience: First- & Second-year Engineering Students (any domain)

❖ Tags: MOODLE, Solar Energy, Educational Technology, Engineering Students

❖ OER developed in MOODLE 3.6

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License. You are free to use, distribute and modify it, including for commercial purposes,

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Learning Objectives

After using this OER, learner will be able to:

• Understand basic concepts of Solar Energy

• Analyze various fields of Applications of Solar Energy

• Analyze Current Status and scenario regarding Government policies for the promotion of

use of Solar Energy



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Open Education Resource: Solar Energy Conversion System with MOODLE

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Helpful Documentation for Tool Use

[1] For design and development of Lesson Activity in MOODLE (an Open Source Tool) -

https://docs.moodle.org/36/en/Course_homepage

[2] For use of Screencast – O - Matic (a Freemium Tool) -

http://distanceed.hss.kennesaw.edu/elearning/tutorials/ScreencastOMatic.pdf

[3] For Downloading Screencast – O – Matic software –

https://screencast-o-matic.com/home

https://docs.moodle.org/36/en/Course_homepage

http://distanceed.hss.kennesaw.edu/elearning/tutorials/ScreencastOMatic.pdf

https://screencast-o-matic.com/home


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Section 2: Design Decisions

Nature of Decisions taken

The design decisions involved in the creation of this OER were of broadly three types:

1. Content Decisions

2. Pedagogic Decisions

3. Technology Decisions Content Decisions

The content decisions related to:

a) Earmarking specific segment to be covered – Decided on Solar Energy Conversion System

– Introduction, Application and Current Status

b) Reflection Spots are also provided to Think & Write.

c) Provided Discussion Forum to start think process about the topic.

d) Provided both Graded and Ungraded Quizzes along with every lesson

e) Additional LxT resources to be provided (NPTEL Course) along with Assimilation Quiz

for both Slow and Advance Learners.

f) Providing Feedback for the course Pedagogic Decisions

Typically, in a flipped classroom strategy, there are two segments – Out-of-class segment and In-

Class segment. The out-of-class segment requires student to refer to some given material (Video,

Text etc) and form an understanding about the concepts that are relevant. In terms of concept

marking the pedagogic decisions that were taken for the Out-of-class segment related to:

a. Cognitive Levels of Questions to be asked along with the resources – Mostly Recall to

Apply level question for out of class and Create Level question for In-class.

b. Assessment Strategies – Multiple choice questions for out of class, Team-Pair-Solo strategy

for in-class

c. Assimilation Activity also provided

Technology Decisions

While developing the Out-of-Class and In-class activities, the major technology decisions taken

were:

a) Tool to be used for creating screen cast – Screen-Cast-O-Matic software for creating video

lessons which has a maximum 15 minutes recording restriction.


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b) MOODLE Lesson Activity for setting up Out-of-Class segment as it allowed guided self-

learning.

c) WordPress - Course is made available on WordPress also with Details.

d) Course Videos are also available on YouTube.


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Section 3: OER Description

Active OER

The OER is available also on WordPress. - https://prafulltarwatkar.wordpress.com/fdp201x/

For checking the active OER, you need to enroll yourself by creating new user (Account) on

MOODLE. This is an Email Based Self Enrollment. Kindly click below link and proceed.


The student enrollment key required for exploring the activity is: Student@123

Lesson Settings

Screenshots below shows the general settings of a Lesson. This is same for all the lessons. If there

are variations, then they are duly noted under each description.

Screenshot 1: General and Appearance setting in MOODLE

Screen Shot 02 – About Course Management




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Screenshot 03 - General Setting of Course

Screen Shot 04 – Adding Course Content


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Screen Shot 05 – Appearance


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Screen Shot 06 – General Course Setting

Screen Shot 07 – Adding Discussion Forum


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Screen Shot 08 – Discussion Forum View

Screenshot 09 - Managing Authentication

Screen Shot 10 - Enrollment Methods


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Screen Shot 11 – Setting up MCQ (Quiz)


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Screen Shot 12 – Students view of MCQ


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Screen Shot 13 – Adding LxT Resource and Assimilation Quiz

Screen Shot 14 – LxT Resource View


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Screen Shot 15 – Assimilation Quiz Setup

Screen Shot 16 – Assimilation Quiz Students View


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Screen Shot 17 – Adding Feedback of course

Screen Shot 18 – Setting Up Feedback questions


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Screen Shot 19 – Feedback View for Student / Guest

Screen Shot 20 – Feedback Report / Answers


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How to use this OER

For using this OER, please ensure that you creating new user account in this MOODLE course

using Email Based Self Enrollment.

MOODLE Course Link - https://prafulltarwatkar.gnomio.com/login/index.php

Use student enrollment key is – Student@123

The complete OER Document is also available on WordPress. -


The respective OER videos can also be accessed on YouTube. – (Links provided on last page)

Instructions:

1) Go and do the enrollment for course

2) A Discussion Forum is also provided, where learner can initiate a thinking process

about this course.

3) Go through all course videos (LeD’s) – There are total 03 LeD’s (Lesson 01, Lesson

02 and Lesson 03)

4) All LeD videos are having both graded and ungraded quizzes. Try and attempt the

same.

5) After course completion, you are requested to provide your valuable feedback to

improve us in future course.




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Section 4: Evaluating Effectiveness of OER

The OER effectiveness can be assessed at two levels:

1. At the student level

2. At the consumer level

Effectiveness at the student level

Student should first enroll for the course with email-based registration and enrollment key is also

provided for the same. Students will be enrolled and go through all resources provided in the

course. They will also attempt quizzes provided.

Effectiveness at the student level involves metrics related to student access of the resource and

student learning.

The course is provided with MCQ’s. Learner should attempt the same. Reports will be generated

based on this.

The Moodle lesson report can be used to evaluate this effectiveness, with the report showing the

total number of students who accessed the reports (along with time) and their marks (based on their

answers to MCQs). Additionally, there is an option feedback to mention effectiveness of this

course.

Effectiveness at consumer level

OER consumers are typically teachers who want their students to learn concept mapping. Linking a

survey on three main constructs – Ease of Use, Concept Coverage and Concept Complexity, can

help in identifying the effectiveness of this OER at consumer level. This has to be done as a

follow-up activity.

A teacher can also use this course for his / her class and get benefitted. This course can be used as a

with Think – Pair – Share (TPS) activity. He / she may take this course and ask students to enroll

for the same.

Implementing Survey / Feedback

A Feedback is also embedded / provided at the end of the course. Learner has to provide his / her

valuable feedback about this course.

The feedback is based on the factors like course content, effectivity, ease of use and rating for the

course.

Feedback questions are designed for this evaluation.


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Survey / Feedback Questions

Construct Question Scale

Ease of use How do you rate this course

Outstanding

Good

Satisfactory

Poor

View about course

In one word, how would you

describe the course to other

students

Yes

No

May Be

Sure


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Section 5: Consolidated Log of Team Work

The consolidated log of team work is as shown below:

Activity Team Member Amount of Time Additional Logs if

any

Discussion

Prafull Madhukar Tarwatkar 01:00:05 About topic selection

Smita Tolani 01:00:05 About topic selection

Trivelli Naidu 01:00:05 About topic selection

Tool Exploration

Prafull Madhukar Tarwatkar 00:42:15

About MOODLE,

Screencast-O-Matic-

PowerPoint, YouTube

Smita Tolani 00:42:15

About MOODLE,

Screencast-O-Matic-

PowerPoint, YouTube

Trivelli Naidu 00:42:15

About MOODLE,

Screencast-O-Matic-

PowerPoint, YouTube

OER Creation

Prafull Madhukar Tarwatkar 01:15:20 About OER & Lesson

02 creation

Smita Tolani 01:05:20 Lesson 03 creation

Trivelli Naidu 01:35:25 Lesson 01 creation

OER Documentation

Prafull Madhukar Tarwatkar 02:10:05 About OER & Lesson

02 documentation

Smita Tolani 01:02:03 Lesson 03

documentation

Trivelli Naidu 01:10:15 Lesson 01

documentation

Individual

Reflection (Diary

Logging)

Prafull Madhukar Tarwatkar 01:42:32

Smita Tolani 01:42:32

Trivelli Naidu 01:42:32

OER Evaluation

Prafull Madhukar Tarwatkar 00:45:15 MCQ, LxT, Feedback

Smita Tolani 00:45:15 MCQ

Trivelli Naidu 00:45:15 MCQ


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Section 6: Building a Community of MOODLE

and Flipped Classroom Adopters

Possible Sources for Community Building

Some of the viable sources for building a community are:

• Teachers who are using MOODLE

• Teachers who plan to use Flipped Classroom Strategies

• Teachers who uses YouTube

• Teacher who is interested in using Various ICT Tools for improving Teaching - Learning

Plans for Community Building

You can get this course through WordPress https://prafulltarwatkar.wordpress.com/fdp201x/

The resource is already available in the https://prafulltarwatkar.gnomio.com/login/index.php

(MOODLE) and its access requires the users to provide their email id. Thus, there will be a list of

interested users whom we can follow up using email. All the interested users can then be

connected using a local Word press or Moodle website.

Email Based Self Enrollment is required to be done.

Student Enrollment Key is – Student@123

OER Access: -

For using this OER, please ensure that you creating new user / account in this MOODLE course

using Email Based Self Enrollment. Use student enrollment key as – Student@123

MOODLE Link - https://prafulltarwatkar.gnomio.com/login/index.php

WordPress Link - https://prafulltarwatkar.wordpress.com/fdp201x/

The complete course videos (LeD’s) are available on YouTube. Links for the same are provided in

Work Sited section. Learner can also access these videos and can use them in teaching learning

process.






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Works Cited

[1] OER Course available on MOODLE


[2] OER Course document and OER Document is available on WordPress


[3] YouTube Links for Videos -

About OER - https://youtu.be/7HF3kcN_Cx4

Lesson 01 - https://youtu.be/t7fJANSMp6A

Lesson 02 - https://youtu.be/0m2Tr1EtWVM

Lesson 03 - https://youtu.be/Hdiiqfzf_dQ

[4] NPTEL Course

Principles and Performance of Solar Energy Thermal Systems (A Web Course) by V.V.

SATYAMURTY, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering,

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Kharagpur

[5] NPTEL Course

Lecture – 1 Energy and Dependence on External Sources and Sun, Physical Description and

Reactions by V.V. SATYAMURTY, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Department of

Mechanical Engineering, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Kharagpur

[6] Wikipedia



https://youtu.be/7HF3kcN_Cx4

https://youtu.be/t7fJANSMp6A

https://youtu.be/0m2Tr1EtWVM

https://youtu.be/Hdiiqfzf_dQ

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