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NU ET511 | Assignment 1 | Informational Interplay 1

Pre-Amble

Vikramaditya and Vetal stories – informational interplays that they are between the two – have understandably engaged Indian minds especially of children but equally of adults for centuries.Recognize informational interplays leave children as well as adults

absorbed; the interplays are pervasive. (What implications does this have for “productions and scripts”, which are two of the five building blocks of cognition?)

What is interesting is though informational interplays – information systems they constitute - build insights, the processes therein are not deductive but “realistic”.

Specifically, this realistic approach by Vetal to Vikramadity’s education takes as its starting point in perception of real problems faced by Vikramaditya during practical experiences.

In the process, Vikramaditya develops his own knowledge in a process of reflection on the situations in which an individual need for learning is created.

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Vikramaditya and Vetal Digital Age Informational Interplay

Vetal began by saying…“Vikramaditya, consider if following work

outcome/instruction/technology development /sales/motivation is possible?

Please explain how you can do it your work or T-L place.

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An educational institution and a software company are in a collaboration.

In a SDLC activity at the software company, at a design phase, a newly inducted professional is making a recommendation for incorporating a requirement, which is not a standard, industry practiced requirement.

HR department of the Software company as a case study tool for training on requirements’ phase produces a video of the interaction between the newly inducted professional and his peers and seniors. In accordance with collaboration principles, this video is shared with the Software Engineering course teacher and students of the Institution.

Further, the video is also posted on Facebook, where it is seen by a pedagogic team working for a satellite educational content broadcasting channel. The channel shows the video on the air, and the Company’s software development project team as also the Software Engineering course teaching team receive thru e-mails, tweets and other social media a number of suggestions and input on the problem discussed.

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Students of the course analyze the entire information, submit assignments/projects and feed their conclusions to the Company software project team.

The Company software project team based on all these inputs, further interactions with course teachers and subject experts and based on existing industry practices as well as its own deliberations, finally takes the decision. It includes accepting of a new practice.

All contributors are acknowledged. The freshly inducted professional into the Company project team, his

peers and students at the institution learn immensely thru the exercise and the freshly inducted professional at work experiences great professional pride and self-confidence.

What is more, newly met requirements help company sales people create increased market share for the software product increasing company revenue.

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As a result, at the company Annual meet, which is attended by Company Global Head and Nation’s Commerce Minister and which is televised globally on a TV channel, university students contributing to the nation’s economy are rewarded and their parents honored.”

Please answer based on complete knowledge that you explore and reflect upon and answer correctly.

Help Vikramditya to answer this question.

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The Interplay

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My Take on the Problem Statement

Learning from others experiences, successes or failures, is a necessary part of embracing collaboration, innovation and re-engineering.

Seeking new opportunities, identifying one within an existing system or off shooting from an existing process is integral to any business’s transformational growth plan.

The given scenario plays out the seamless interaction between multiple stakeholders – both within the company and outside. The scope extended to direct players like the students to indirect players like the satellite channel and Facebook members.

Everybody ended up contributing as well as benefiting from this seamlessness. Some achievements were predictable while many were not.

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work: If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up! Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.”

– King Solomon

"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."

- George Bernard Shaw

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The positive aspect here is that the process was open to feedback and incorporated them to better the process and requirement, enabling value creation for the business.

My Take on the Problem Statement

New Req in

SDLCTeam Member

Supervisor

Training Content

HR

Video recording of interaction

Education Content

Students

Feedback

Facebook

Satellite ChannelViewers

Members

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A Live Case

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Challenges / Requirements

Our business is primarily around providing content to schools to deliver effective teaching learning process.

The content can further be divided into Primary and Supplementary content:Primary targets the actual teaching content in different modes

of multimediaSupplementary covers all those elements that help the primary

to become effective like • the Teacher’s Lesson Plans• Activities that can be conducted in the class to make the

learning engaging and collaborative• Frequently asked Questions• Question Bank – different types

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Challenges / Requirements

Added complications to the requirement:Each school is open to pick up any book (publisher) as per the

prescribed syllabus – NCERT. Added to this is the complexity of State board syllabus. Hence any kind of content development mitigation plan always falls short of the interim ‘new’ needs.

Curriculum has been changing in the recent past. Not only from the content perspective but also pedagogical perspective:• Activity based learning• Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluations• Math Lab approach

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Pillars of Education

To develop any content, the business looks at Subject Matter Experts in their respective areas

1. Teaching Learning content

2. Media development and

3. Instructional design While the last two are still easy to locate/train, the content SMEs are

either difficult to find or difficult to train on the ICT approach. Also, each teacher has his/her own way of tackling the subject which

others may or may not agree.

Information

Knowledge

Experience

Education

Curriculum

Learning of Individual Teachers

Experience of Individual Teachers

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Power to People : Content

TEACHERS• Control must reside with the teacher to plan

• What to do, How much to• How to do • When to do

• Teacher driven instead of content driven

STUDENTS• Addresses multiple learning styles• Addresses the entire spectrum of students: bright

students as well as the academically challenged students

• Opportunity to explore more based on their needs and interests

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Power to People : Content

The best probable solution would be for the business to initiate a content requirement on an edu network of teachers to collaborate to Contribute to a learning objective on a edu network, If possible have external contributors like University professors,

researchers, parents, society at largeLink/include content from other edu networks, open source, research

labs etcComplete the LO based content using a Workflow mechanism with

identified Approvers The network in turn ensures ‘awarding’ by recognition, remunerations,

free content etc. This way all stakeholders get rewarded,

the organisation gets validated content at least cost, market value goes up, able to cater to larger customer base as offering goes up.

Can offer similar services to another industry, say the BPO or KPO industry Teachers contribute to the community

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Content Collaboration

WWW

Child

Technology Integrated Classroom

HomeLearning

Ecosystem

No man is an island, sufficient unto himself

None of us is as skilled as all of us

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Content Collaboration

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