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PROJECT OSCAR++ www.oscar.iitb.ac.in PRSG Meeting October 3, 2012 MHRD-NMEICT IIT Bombay PI: Sridhar Iyer Co-PI: Sahana Murthy 1 Main Aim of Project Develop animations and simulations (Learning Objects [1]) for college level science/

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PROJECT OSCAR++

www.oscar.iitb.ac.in

IIT Bombay PI: Sridhar Iyer Co-PI: Sahana Murthy PRSG Meeting October 3, 2012

MHRD-NMEICT

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Main Aim of Project

Develop animations and simulations (Learning Objects [1]) for college level science/ engineering courses. All Learning Objects (LOs) and Instructional Design Documents (IDDs) uploaded at: www.oscar.iitb.ac.in

A Learning Object is an independent structural experience that contains an objective, a learning activity and an assessment [1].

[1] L'Allier, James J. (1997) Frame of Reference: NETg's Map to the Products, Their Structure and Core Beliefs.

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OSCAR LO

There are various definitions of Learning Object (LO). An OSCAR LO contains an animation or simulation having the following properties:

– Learning Objectives – Interactivity: Ranging from basic (pace control and navigation control) to advanced (multiple variable manipulation) – Text: Explanation of the concept and Glossary of terms – Self-Assessment: Questions and feedback on responses – Audio narration and transcripts (as per user’s choice) – Playing time (time to simply click through the LO): Ranging from 5 minutes to 15 minutes. – Learning time (time to work through the LO activities): Ranging from 20 minutes to 60 minutes.

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History

Previous work

  • Creation of School-level LOs:

–Sponsored by OSSRC –PRSG member Dr. M. Sasikumar is aware of this work

  • Creation of Fun-with-Science videos for mobiles:

–Sponsored by TICET –PRSG member Mr. Sushil Prakash is aware of this work

Current work

  • Creation of Graduate-level LOs:

–Sponsored by MHRD-NMEICT –Pilot phase from 2009 to 2010; Main phase from 2010 till date.

See link below for more details of the history: http://oscar.iitb.ac.in/historydetails.do

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Project Summary

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DPR and Reports

The IDDs and LOs are uploaded at: oscar.iitb.ac.in The NMEICT project documents are uploaded at: www.it.iitb.ac.in/oscar/reports.html This site has the following:

  • Pilot Report
  • Main Phase DPR (after revision based on reviewer comments)
  • Intermediate Reports sent to MHRD so far
  • ID Templates and other documents generated
  • Report and presentation for this PRSG meeting
  • Video presentations for PRSG members attending remotely
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Screenshot of OSCAR site

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Screenshot of NMEICT reports site

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Main phase DPR

(after revision based on reviewer comments) Deliverables (approved and sanctioned):

  • 300 Instructional Design (ID) Documents to be created
  • 300 OSCAR Learning Objects to be developed
  • 12 workshops to be conducted – 4 ID, 8 Blender
  • 600 people to be trained
  • Research papers and reports on evaluation and quality

assessment of e-learning content Budget – Budget requested:

  • Rs. 3,74,00,000

– Budget sanctioned:

  • Rs. 3,00,00,000

– Funds received:

  • Rs. 1,50,00,000 (50% of amt sanctioned)
  • Recd. Rs 90,00,000 in Feb. 2011, Rs. 60,00,000 in Jan. 2012
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Activities completed

Main phase objectives completed till September 2012

  • 92 Learning Objects developed and uploaded (to date), 100

under development, 55 to be developed .

  • 247 Instructional Design Documents (IDD) developed
  • 11 workshops conducted - 4 instructional design workshops

and 7 Blender training-cum-awareness workshops

  • 263 people trained in Instructional Design Workshops
  • 196 people trained for Basics of Blender
  • 779 people participated in Blender awareness workshops
  • 5 research papers in international and national conferences

(Appendix A)

  • Pilot phase (till Feb. 2010) objectives completed (Appendix B)
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Budget Summary

Pending payments, manpower 13,56,311 Blocked (B) Budget Amount (Rupees) Remarks Budget requested 3,74,00,000 Amount Sanctioned 3,00,00,000 Funds Received 1,50,00,000

  • Rs. 90,00,000 (1st installment)
  • Rs. 60,00,000 (2nd installment)

Payments (A) 1,06,98,903 IDD creation, LO development, workshops, manpower Commitments (C) 19,00,000 Pending LO development, manpower, travel Net Expenditure (A + B +C) 1,39,55,214 Till January 2013 Balance 10,44,786 Note: Utilization certificate is attached with the report (Appendix G)

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LO Development Process

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Process Background

A typical LO creation process involves interaction between:

  • SME – Subject Matter Expert – provides the raw content
  • ID – Instruction Designer – takes the raw content, incorporates

pedagogy and multimedia design principles, and creates the detailed storyboard for the LO (which we call IDD)

  • GD - Graphic designer – incorporates visual design principles in

the IDD so that the corresponding LO has high usability

  • Animator – takes the IDD and programs the LO

A significant amount of face-to-face interaction is required, which makes it difficult to scale (rapidly create large number of LOs). In the pilot phase, we experimented with various LO creation processes and came up with one that minimizes the SME time involvement as well as interaction between ID and Animator, and allows scaling at low cost. See pilot phase report for details.

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Domain Owner Model of LO Development

PROCESS :

Write IDD Develop LO Review LO

Propose concept

Review proposal

Concept Proposer = SME Faculty IDD writer = PG student (SME)

Develop story board Review Design

Graphic Designer Reviewer = OSCAR VC Expert Developer = Vendor/ In-house

Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4

Reviewer = Faculty + OSCAR ID team Reviewer = SME Faculty

Review IDD

Index: SME: Subject Matter Expert VC: Visual Communication LO: Learning Object (e.g. animation, simulation) DOMAIN OWNERS

  • Faculty from IITB, IITM, BITS-Pilani
  • Subject Matter Experts (SME)
  • Role: Propose Concept, guide IDD

creation, Review

Upload LO on website

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Stage 1 steps

  • 1. Conduct 2-hour workshops to find faculty

interested in using LOs for their courses.

  • 2. Train participating faculty to identify ideas

that are suitable for LO creation, using a concept proposal form.

  • 3. Review the concept proposal.

4. Convince some of the faculty to become domain owners (SME for a set of related topics).

  • 5. Assist the SME to identify a suitable ID

writer for their domain.

Propose concept

Review proposal

Concept Proposer = SME Faculty

Stage 1

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Stage 2 steps

  • 1. Create an ID writing template suitable for

the chosen domain.

  • 2. Conduct 2-day workshops to train ID

writers (and SME).

  • 3. For each concept, ID writer to create IDD.
  • 4. Review each IDD from perspective of

concept correctness; done by SME.

  • 5. Review each IDD from perspective of

pedagogy and visual communication; done by OSCAR ID team.

  • 6. Iterate 3-5 till done for all IDDs. Each

review step has appropriate checklists.

Write IDD

IDD writer = PG student (SME)

Stage 2

Reviewer = Faculty + OSCAR ID team

Review IDD

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Stage 3 steps

1. For a set of IDDs, create a tender for inviting bids from LO creation companies, and identify a suitable vendor. This step is omitted for IDDs for which the LOs are created in-house by oscar animator team. 2. Create visual communication guidelines (Graphic, Animation, Multimedia and Interaction design) for Graphic Designer (GD - may be in-house or at the vendor’s end). 3. For each IDD, GD writer to create a storyboard to be used for programming the LO. 4. Review each storyboard from perspective of visual communication; done by oscar GD team. 5. Iterate 3-4 till all storyboards are done.

Develop story board Review Design

Graphic Designer Reviewer = OSCAR VC Expert

Stage 3

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Stage 4 steps

  • 1. For each storyboard, develop the LO. This

is done by the vendor, as per the tender. For topics not in the tender, this is done by oscar animator team.

  • 2. Review each LO from the GD perspective

(done by oscar team) and from the concept perspective (done by SME). As a result, each LO undergoes 2-3 revisions till it is signed off.

  • 3. Upload LO onto the OSCAR repository.
  • 4. Iterate 2-3 till all LOs are done.

Develop LO Review LO

Developer = Vendor/ In-house

Stage 4

Reviewer = SME Faculty

Upload LO on website

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Deliverables

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Instructional Design

  • 2-day workshops to train participants in basics of ID
  • Discussion and activities to learn principles of ID
  • Worksheets to practice application of ID principles
  • Group activities to apply pedagogical principles for LO design
  • choosing appropriate topic for visualization
  • deciding visuals and animation
  • incorporating appropriate interactivity
  • writing self-assessment questions and feedback
  • Template to create ID document for OSCAR LO

For details of conduction of ID workshops, and ID Document templates, see Section IV in the PRSG Report

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Learning Objects

LO DOMAIN CLASSIFICATION Domains LOs IDDs

Bioscience 48 98 Electrical Engg. 32 32 Chemistry 03 17 Physics

  • 21

Computer Sci. 03 12 Earth Sci. 02 27 Material Sci. 01 24 Chemical Engg.

  • 13
  • Mech. Engg.

01 01 Civil Engg. 01 01

  • Environ. Sci.

01 01 Total 92 247

LO INTERACTIVITY LEVEL CLASSIFICATION LO Type Count Example

Basic 107 (43%) Functions of DNA Intermediate 102 (41%) Ensemble Averaging Advanced 38 (16%) 2R Manipulator

For details of LO pedagogical features and classification, see movie LO_features_classification.avi .

LO FEATURES

self assess- ment inter- activity gloss

  • ary
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OSCAR Repository

www.oscar.iitb.ac.in

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Screenshot of LO description page

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Screenshot of LO downloads

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Repository Back-end

Software Details

  • Developed in Struts platform with Apache tomcat 5.5 as the

web server

  • Database used for this is Postgres
  • Technologies used are Java,JSP and Netbeans 5.5.

Main Modules

  • 1. Animations/ LO module: View, download, search and

uploading of animation

  • 2. IDD Module: Uploading, view, and download of IDDs
  • 3. Other modules: 3D Models module, Rating module

Approximate size of code

  • Full code – 45 GB , OnsiteDocumentsDirectory -25 GB

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Pilot Evaluation of LO Use

  • Analytics
  • Visits : 17,334 [from Jan. 2011 - Sept. 2012]
  • Top 4 countries of visitors : India, US, Dominican Republic, UK
  • Top LO- Download count 406
  • Faculty and teacher feedback
  • 61 LOs used in classrooms
  • Peer review feedback of OSCAR LOs by 33 faculty members from

IITB and other engineering colleges using standard questionnaires

  • Student feedback
  • Developed questionnaire for student feedback
  • 320 students surveyed from 4 engineering colleges
  • Results (average of 5 LOs): 86% students positive feedback

For details of LO pedagogical features and classification, see slideshow LO_use.pps .

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Blender Activities

Blender Workshops

  • ~200 people trained in basic Blender 3D animation
  • Reached out to ~800 participants in creating awareness of Blender as an
  • pen-source for 3D animation tool

Blender Tutorials

  • Created repository of 15 tutorials, using Spoken Tutorial platform for

teaching basics of Blender

Repository of Blender Models

  • Devised methodology for creating Blender 3D models to use in animations
  • Created repository of 40 Blender models in Physics and Chemistry
  • Created 25 animations using Blender models

For details of Blender activities and Blender models, see movie blender.avi .

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Screenshot of Blender Models

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Screenshot of Blender LO

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Project Completion

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Work remaining

From September 2012 till March 2013

  • Complete the review process for the 100 LOs under

development, upload on OSCAR website

  • Release the tender to develop remaining 57 IDDs, by Oct 15th
  • Complete the review process and upload above 57 LOs
  • Complete creation of 31 Instructional Design Documents

(currently under development)

  • Create documentation of processes and details that may be

useful for knowledge transfer to similar projects

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Total Project Contributions

From April 2009 to March 2013, Pilot + Main phase

Deliverables mentioned in DPR

Instructional Material

  • 316 Learning Objects (LOs)
  • 347 Instructional Design Documents

Workshops – 26 total

  • 7 Instructional Design workshops
  • 8 Blender training-cum-awareness workshops
  • 9 LO skills workshop
  • 2 Flash workshops

Human Resource Development

  • 322 people trained in Instructional Design
  • 246 people trained in basics of Blender
  • 779 people participated in Blender awareness
  • 213 people participated in LO skills workshop
  • 14 people trained in Flash workshops

Research reports and papers - 5

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  • 15 Blender video tutorials
  • Documents related to LO creation process
  • Template for ID document creation
  • Checklists for quality assurance of IDDs and LOs
  • ID Workshop materials
  • Training of BE project students
  • Outreach Activities

Additional items beyond DPR deliverables

Total Project Contributions (contd.)

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PRSG Request

PRSG approval is sought for:

  • No cost-extension of completion date from 31st Dec

2012 to 31st March 2013.

  • Release of further funds is *not* being requested

– Rs. 1.5 Crores received out of the sanctioned Rs. 3 crores

  • Project closure upon completion of remaining work
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Project Team – Staff members

Rekha Kale, Vidhya Chapke, Shalu Pal, Preeti Sharma Project Assistant Nitin Ayer, , Bhanu, Monisha Banerjee, Pooja Bhavar, Pankaja Date, Sneha Deorukhkar, Bhairav Lahotkar, Sucheta Phatak, Amit Vengulekar Animator Swati Patil, Sarika Shivsaran System Administrator Kaumudi Sahasrabudhe Designer Sandeep Gaikwad, Swati Revandkar Web Designer Farida Khan, Arun Nair Research staff Anjaly C, Aruna Adil, Shruti Dere, Rashmi Madbhavi, Supriya Nanavare, Praveen Pal, P G Putharickal Software Engineer Malati Baru, C. Vijayalakshmi, Sameer Sahasrabudhe, Gargi Banerjee Project Manager

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Project Team – Domain Owners

  • Prof. Sahana Murthy, IIT Bombay

Physics

  • Prof. M. P. Gururajan, IIT Bombay
  • Prof. Prita Pant, IIT Bombay

Metallurgy and Materials Science

  • Prof. Sai Jaganmohan, BITS Pilani

Mechanical Engineering

  • Prof. Soumyajit Mukherjee, IIT Bombay

Earth Science

  • Prof. Saravanan Vijayakumaran, IIT Bombay
  • Prof. Sachin Patkar, IIT Bombay

Electrical Engineering Prof, Abhijit Deshpande, IIT Madras

  • Prof. Susy Verughese, IIT Madras

Chemical Engineering

  • Prof. Anindya Dutta, IIT Bombay

Chemistry

  • Prof. Sanjeeva Srivastava, IIT Bombay

Bioscience FACULTY MEMBER DOMAIN

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Appendix A: Research Papers

  • "Embedding visual communication principles in Instructional Design phase of Learning

Object (LO) creation process" . S. Sahasrabudhe, S. Murthy and S. Iyer, Edmedia 2012, Denver, Colorado, USA. June 25-29 2012.

  • “Model for large scale development of learning objects.” Gargi Banerjee and Sahana
  • Murthy. IEEE Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Technology for

Education (T4E 2011), Chennai, India. July 14-16, 2011.

  • “Design and Evaluation of OSCAR Physics Learning Objects.” Anura Kenkre and Sahana
  • Murthy. Presented at the Physics Education Research Conference-cum-Workshop, St.

Bede’s college, Shimla. May 22-29, 2011.

  • “Creating Open Source Repository of 3D Models of Laboratory Equipments using

Blender”.Shruti Dere, Sameer Sahasrabudhe and Sridhar Iyer. 2nd International IEEE Conference on Technology for Education (T4E 2010), Mumbai, India, July 1-3, 2010.

  • “Creating 3D Animations of Laboratory Experiments Using Open Source Tools”. Sameer

Sahasrabudhe, Sridhar Iyer. International Conference on e-learning (ICEL), Toronto, Canada, July 2009.

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Appendix B: Pilot Phase Details

Details of Pilot Phase, submitted report February 2010

  • Experimented with different models of large scale LO development –

finalized on Domain Owner model

  • 74 Instructional Design Documents developed and approved during review
  • 69 Learning Objects (LOs) developed
  • 17 workshops conducted
  • 9 Learning Objects awareness workshops for faculty,
  • 3 Instructional Design workshops,
  • 5 LO development workshops (Blender, Flash)
  • 322 people participated in workshops
  • 213 participated in Learning Objects awareness workshops
  • 59 people trained in Instructional Design workshops
  • 50 people trained in Blender 3D animation creation
  • 12 people trained in Flash workshops