Animation:
To EXPLAIN
OR
TO EXCLAIM
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Sameer Sahasrabudhe
Senior Project Research Scientist
IIT Bombay
Background
- What are MOOCs?
- Definitions
- Brief history
- Why are they found effective?
- Quantify massiveness with examples
- Popular examples/subjects
- What are the challenges/advantages of MOOCs?
- Advantages: Reach, parity, archival
- Challenges: Lack of face-to-face, technology dependent
- What are the challenges in using MOOCs for skill development?
Rewind
Typical eLearning content creation process and stakeholders
- Subject matter expert
- Instructional designer
- Animation developer
- Software programmer
- Script writer/technical writer
Status check
Subject matter experts
- Mostly available
- Also, interested in creating content, as they are one of the beneficiary
Status check
Instructional designers
- Very few available
- Main reason is lack of formal education
- Few institutions which offer this course, cater mainly to the companies, which hire them for creating internal training
- Varied intake (graduate in any discipline), results in a divergent output
Status check
Animation developers
- Non existing!!
- No formal course available
- Almost all of them in this field are migrants from entertainment domain
- Even there, the training comprises mainly of the software and not about the concepts of animation
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Technical writers
Solution plan
- Formal curriculum by consulting researchers
- Qualified trainers
- State-of-the-art laboratories
- Assessment and certification
