The document discusses the distinctions and challenges of online teaching versus online learning, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. It stresses the importance of effective pedagogical strategies over mere technology deployment, emphasizing the need for a shift in focus from teaching to learning. Additionally, it highlights concerns about the adequacy of internet infrastructure for online education in India and the potential risks for children during this transition.

1. Making Sense of Online Teaching
Engaging Students Online & Offline
Dilip Barad
M. K. Bhavnagar University, Gujarat, India

2. Questions to be addressed in this session
▪ What is Online Teaching? Is it different from Online Learning?
▪ Shall we have similar policies for both the Primary / Elementary Schools
and Higher Education Institutes?
▪ What sort of pedagogical strategies shall be adopted by teachers to
integrate technology?

3. What is Online Teaching? Is it different
from Online Learning?
▪ Making Sense >
– What are we doing? How are we reacting? What can be done? How can it be
done?
▪ Online > difference between Remote Teaching vs Online Teaching
– ERT – temporary moving of in-person or hybrid courses to an online teaching
format
– Online Teaching – instruction designed specifically for use in an online format
> Flipped Learning / Blended Learning
▪ Teaching >
▪ Shift from teaching to learning and now again from learning to
teaching
▪ Responsibility > Teacher / Learner > Replacement

4. The critics of online education are also all arms to attack . . .
On what grounds are they making critique of online education?

5. Maslow before Bloom

9. In the name of online teaching,
what a rampant misuse is being
happening. F2F teaching is being
blindly replicated in the name
of online teaching. So less
focus is on learning!! They are
teaching online for social
media, rather than for learners.
People, please stop!
Don't scare away the students.
Teaching is much more than just
sitting and speaking in front of
a webcam.
Ramesh Sharma

10. ▪ Why online classes may not be such a good idea after all, especially for kids
▪ Online lessons have emerged as the go-to solution for schools looking to resume classes
despite lockdown. But experts are worried. - KRITIKA SHARMA 23 April, 2020 7:30 am
IST –The Print
▪ Children at increased risk of harm online during global COVID-19 pandemic
▪ Newly released technical note aims to help governments, ICT companies, educators and
parents protect children in lockdown - 14 April 2020 – UNICEF
▪ UN agencies flag online education pitfalls
▪ UNESCO and UNICEF advisories carry a huge significance for India, where the lockdown
has triggered efforts to promote online teaching from primary school to universities -
By Basant Kumar Mohanty in New Delhi –TheTelegraph
▪ Indian Internet infrastructure not prepared for shift to online teaching-learning, says
QS report - 21 April 2020 – Indian Express

11. ▪ Online > difference between Remote Teaching vs
Online Teaching
–ERT – temporary moving of in-person or hybrid courses
to an online teaching format
–Online Teaching – instruction designed specifically for
use in an online format > Flipped Learning / Blended
Learning
▪ Teaching >
▪ Shift from teaching to learning and now again from
learning to teaching
▪ Responsibility > Teacher / Learner > Replacement

12. Shall we have similar policies for both the Primary / Elementary Schools and Higher
Education Institutes?
Schools Higher Education Institutes
Life Skills Livelihood Skills
Sports, Arts, Music,Yoga, Dance,
Drama
Job skills
More time & space – outdoor
activities
More of online learning over
MOOCs to enhance and hone
necessary skills
Less screen time – more physical
activities
Screen time depends on their
needs

13. What sort of pedagogical strategies shall be adopted by teachers to integrate
technology?
Mike Sharples is Emeritus Professor of
Educational Technology at The Open
University
Matt Renwick is an elementary school
principal in Wisconsin
We need to focus on how teachers use
technology, not just the technology
alone. The key to this is pedagogy.
By ‘pedagogy’, I mean the theory and
practice of teaching, learning and
assessment.
A teacher with effective pedagogy can
make a success from even the most
mundane technology, or no technology
at all.
Should pedagogy drive technology or . . . .
Pedagogy is the driver, technology is
the accelerator.
Can technology be the driver and
pedagogy, the accelerator?
Literacy is no longer exclusive to
paper and pencil.
It’s not what you use, it’s how you use it.

15. Poll 5 & 6

16. What can we do? - What do I do?
▪The Model
–Flipped Learning
–Blended Learning
▪Deliverables
–Digital Portfolio

17. Model, eContent & the Digital Platform/s
1. Model: (Instructional Designer)
▪ Before-live interaction
▪ During live interaction (Poll, whiteboard, Drive)
▪ After live interaction
2. eContent: (Educational Technologist)
▪ Textual
▪ Video Resources
▪ Online tests
▪ Additional resources
3. Platforms: (Instructional Technologist)
▪ ed.ted - Khan academy
▪ Video sharing asynchronous (Youtube, vimeo)
▪ Video sharing synchronous (zoom, meet)
Synchronous vs Asynchronous
Live synchronous talk with
teachers not possible
Video web-conferencing?
G-Class + G Meet

18. A short video on Flipped + Blended Learning PracticeThis
▪The video can be accessed on
www.youtube.com/dilipbarad

19. Questions from the participants.
▪Thank you

20. References
▪ Renwick, Matt. Should Pedagogy Always DriveTechnology. 24 Aug
2016. 6 July 2020.
https://edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2016/08/should-pedagogy-
always-drive-technology
▪ Sharples, Mike.To Improve Education – Focus on Pedagogy not on
Technology. 10 May 2019. 6 July 2020. https://oeb.global/oeb-
insights/to-improve-education-focus-on-pedagogy-not-technology/
▪ Hodges, Charles, et.all.The Difference Between Emergency
RemoteTeaching and OnlineTeaching. 27 March 2020. 6 July 2020.
https://er.educause.edu/articles/2020/3/the-difference-between-
emergency-remote-teaching-and-online-learning