Developing Learner Generated MOOC Content through Inter-Institute Faculty- Student Peer Collaboration: Case Study

Abstract

COVID-19 is considered as threat to mankind, the educational technologists and academicians are considering it as an opportunity to develop and carve out new horizons as far as online teaching - learning is concerned. Thus developed technologies and methodologies during this pandemic situation will continue to be in existence and impact the world even though the so called pandemic situation remains in existence or not. An inter-institute faculty student peer collaboration has been initiated and is ongoing between an premium institute Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and another premier self-financing autonomous institute G. H. Raisoni College of Engineering Nagpur with involvement of NPTEL for the development of MOOC of Digital Signal Processing course. Philosophy of this novel initiative for noble cause is to make best teaching standards in the country accessible to a large number of student and other stakeholders and to provide them with an experience of learning at par with live interaction as student peers from IIT Bombay have. The implementation methodology, results, current status and future scope of ongoing endeavor is presented in this paper. The paper is having six sections. The outcomes in the form of takeaways for partnering institutes are presented with the current status of the ongoing inter-institute student - faculty peer collaboration. The future plans are presented in the last section with proposed involvement of another institute PVG's College of Engineering, Pune in the collaboration to expand its reach, scope and horizon leading toward exploring the other avenues of joining hands to serve the society in the best possible way.