Any digitized content that can
facilitate the learning process and/or learning outcome can be termed as
e-content Any content product available in a digital form and it typically
refers to music, information and images that are available for distribution on
electronic media is called e-content. E-content is generally designed to guide
students through lot of information in a specific task. An e-content package
can be used as a teacher in the virtual classroom situations. The quality of
learning depends not only on the form of how the process is carried out but
also on what content is taught and how the content is presented.
E-content development requires
huge amounts of creativity both at 'information'
level as well as the 'technology' level.
Phases of e-content development
- Planning
ü
overall plan to develop educational content
ü
identify basic information needed for
development
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Estimate time, budget and resources
- Design
Phase
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To conduct a primary analysis of learning
tasks, and create storyboards
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Conduct goal and task analysis
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Develop initial content ideas
- Development
Phase
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actual production of the e-content
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create the e-content by mixing of texts, audio,
video, animations , references, blogs, links, and MCQs (multiple choice
questions)
- Testing
phase
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test the spelling mistakes, content errors,
clarity of pictures , relevant videos, appropriate audios, timing of
animations, and hyperlinks.
- Implementation
Phase
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explains how to install and how to use it and
their difficulties experienced while using e-content
- Evaluation
Phase
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feedback from both learners and instructors
e-content development
initiatives in India :
NME-ICT, UGC-CEC
National Mission on
Education through ICT (NME-ICT), has assigned work to the UGC for development
of e-content in 71 subjects at postgraduate level. High quality,
curriculum-based, Interactive content in different subjects across all
disciplines of social sciences, arts, fine arts & humanities, natural &
mathematical sciences, linguistics and languages is being develop under this
initiative named e-PG Pathshala. The Mission shall work on the philosophy of
encouraging all the scholars and academicians to generate e-content. This may
even result in generation of more than one set of e-content on one topic in any
given discipline. A large quantity of e-learning material, in digital form, is
already available. Therefore, the Mission shall undertake an exercise to
evaluate the already available e-learning material, as well as the one which is
being or is to be generated, and grade them for the benefit of learners. The
Mission shall also attempt to provide guidance to them in order to facilitate
their search for quality material.