Open Education Resource: Mobile Communications fundamentals

Completed as part of FDP 201x by IIT Bombay on Pedagogy for online and blended Teaching-Learning Process _____________________________________________________________________________________

RC1190_009

Mrs. Seema Bhalgaonkar (Team Leader) Ms. Radhika Gulhane

Mobile Communications fundamentalsLicensed under creative commons license

This OER is a team activity done as part of FDP 201x by IIT Bombay on “Pedagogy for online and blended

Teaching-Learning Process” is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License. You are free to use, distribute and modify it, including for commercial purposes, provided you acknowledge the source and share-alike.

To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Table of Contents

Sr.No Title Page No

Section -1 Introduction: Open Education Resource 31.1 About the OER 3

1.2 Learning Objectives 3

Section -2 Design Decisions 42.1 Nature of Decisions taken 4

2.2 Content Decisions 4

2.3 Pedagogic Decisions 4

2.4 Technology Decisions 4

Section -3 OER Description 53.2 Lesson Settings 5

3.3 How to use this OER 14

3.4 Best Practices with Lesson Activity 14

Section -4 Evaluating of OER 154.1 Effectiveness at the student level 15

4.2 Effectiveness at consumer level 16

Section -5 Consolidated Work Log 17Section 7 Works Cited 18

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Open Education Resource: Mobile Communications fundamentals

RC1190_009

Mrs. Seema Bhalgaonkar (Team Leader) Ms. Radhika Gulhane RC1190_009

About the OER The open education resource is digital material about the course which have all contents like Power Point Presentation, Assignment, Discussion Forum, and Quizzes that can be useful for student, self-learners.

OER can be downloaded from (https://seemabhalgaonkar.wordpress.com/oer_mobile-

communication_rc1190/) https://seemabhalgaonkar.moodlecloud.com/course/view.php?id=3 Target Audience: First year Engineering Students (any domain) Tags: PowerPoint Presentation, Quiz, Concept Map, Educational Technology,

Assignments, Engineering Students - OER developed in MOODLE 2.3 This resource is licensed under CC-BY-SA ver 4.0. You are free to use, distribute and modify it,

including for commercial purposes, provided you acknowledge the source and share-alike. To see more details about the license visit

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by - sa/4.0/ Learning Objectives After using this OER, learner will be able to:

Understand the fundamentals of mobile communication network. Understand different components of system such as BSC,MSC, HLR,VLR

etc.

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Section 2: Design Decisions

Nature of Decisions taken The decisions that needed to be taken while creating the OER were-

1. Content Decisions 2. Pedagogic Decisions 3. Technology Decisions

Content Decisions We needed to decide the topic on which video is to be prepared:

a. GSM basic architecture for mobile communication. b. How and which type of assignments can be prepared.

Pedagogic Decisions

This needed more thinking and inputs as how can we deliver the lecture content in digital form and how well can we frame assignments and evaluate understanding of user/student1. Cognitive Levels Questions: framing mostly Recall type questions and few to understand and

apply type questions2. Assessment Strategies – Multiple choice questions, assignments and their scores

Technology Decisions major technology decisions taken were which software we can use to record video and which type of assessment technique will be more effetive:

a. Screen cast tool used as Screen-o-matic for explaining the course contents.b. Multiple Choice Questions and Assignment were provided to judge the understanding

of concepts and evaluation

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Section 3: OER Description

Check the active OER on following linkhttps://seemabhalgaonkar.moodlecloud.com/mod/folder/view.php?id=30

Lesson Settings

Following Screenshots shows the general settings of a course.

Screenshot 1: Screencast video on how to access the course Components on moodlecloud

Screenshot 2: PPTs on GSM Mobile Architecture fundamentals

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Screenshot 3: PPTs on GSM Mobile Architecture fundamentals with Reflection spot

Screenshot 4: PPTs on GSM Mobile Architecture fundamentals Contents

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Screenshot 5: PPTs on GSM Mobile Architecture fundamentals Contents

Screenshot 6: Creating Quiz in using MOODLE

To create quiz in moodle you can follow this steps: Turn editing on from top right corner settings

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Click on add activity or resource

In that list of activities appears, click on quiz and click add

Give name and description for quiz

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Click save and display

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Go to edit quiz click Add question

Select question type. You can choose any option

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Add Question name and type question

Write choices and grades for question

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Click on save Changes.Screenshots to allow users self-enrollment :

Go to site administration

Go to Plugins : Enrollment : Self Enrollment

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Click on new enrollment as yes option

Click on save changes

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Screenshot 9: Creating Course Feedback follow these steps Click add an activity or recourse – click on feedback and click add

Give name and description

Click add an activity or recourse – click on survey and click add

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Type and give discription

Click save and display

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How to use this OER

For using this OER, please ensure that you have admin permission in your MOODLE course (needed for importing activities).

Step 1: Download the set of 3 lessons (OER) from www.et.iitb.ac.in/~jkmadathil/et4et/oer.html Step 2: Go to the MOODLE course where you want to import this lesson. In the Administration section click “Restore”

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

The In-Class activities can be used to evaluate effectiveness, with the report showing the total number of students who accessed the videos (along with time) and their marks (based on their answers to MCQs).

Effectiveness at consumer level OER consumers are typically teachers who want their students to learn new concepts using Learning by Doing. 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.

Implementing Survey Thus every user who downloads this resource will be asked their email address and as a follow up the survey will be sending to their email address.

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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 Team Leader & Team Member 1

3 hrs

Tool Exploration

10 hrs

Team Leader & Team Member 1

OER Creation Team Leader & Team Member 1

8 hrs

Uploaded on moodle site as mentioned in section 3

OER Documentation

3 hrs

Uploaded on WordPress website as mentioned in section 3

Team Leader & Team Member 1

Individual

Reflection (Diary Logging)

3 hrs

Uploaded on individual WordPress website

Team Leader & Team Member 1

OER Evaluation

In process

Team Leader &

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Team Member 1

Section 6: Building a Community of Communication

learnersCommunity Building can be done for

Teachers who are using Moodle Teachers who plan to ICT in teaching learning Self-learners

Plans for Community Building The resource is already available as moodle course and its access requires the users to provide their email id. All the interested users can then be connected using discussion forums on Moodle website.

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Section 7: Works Cited [1] GSM Mobile Communication by Iti shah

[2] “GSM basics ” by Wikipedia

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