WhatsApp for Educators - by Prof M M Pant

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#LLL09: Whatsapp for educators: Prof M M Pant ( www.mmpant.com ), an inspiring mentor is on his mission to spread the emerging technologies to the youth.  Latest statistics show that almost 35  crore Indians have mobile phones and many of them would want to use their mobile phones for learning as well. There is a big opportunity for educators who can offer mobile learning. This program is aimed to enable every educator ( school teacher, University faculty or independent professional) to deploy Whatsapp as a teaching tool in his/her context.

The next batch of this program will run over 5 days from Monday January 21st to Friday January 25th 2019.

The flow of posts during this week is as below:

Monday Day 1: WhatsApp   facilitated learning
Topic 1.1: Why WhatsApp ? It is a cross-platform product; works on Android, iOS and Jio feature phone.
Topic 1.2: Features of WhatsApp as a learning tool: able to send text, photos, videos and voice messages.
Topic 1.3: Overcoming the  limitations of WhatsApp
Topic 1.4: Protocol to be adopted in a WhatsApp learning group
Topic 1.5: Revenue models

Tuesday Day 2: Design considerations for WhatsApp Delivery
Topic 2.1: Choosing a course topic: considerations
Topic 2.2: Incorporating Instructional Design: chunking
Topic 2.3: Mapping to credit value ( guided learning hours).
Topic 2.4: Content mix for an effective WhatsApp post
Topic 2.5: Effective content curation

Wednesday Day 3: Delivering a course with WhatsApp
Topic 3.1: Forming the  delivery team
Topic 3.2: The learner attributes
Topic 3.3: Creating the course groups
Topic 3.4: Scheduling the posts
Topic 3.5: Optimum lengths of the Whatsapp posts

Thursday Day 4: Identifying possibilities for WhatsApp based learning
Topic 4.1: Design of a remote lecture delivered with Whatsapp
Topic 4.2: Gagne’s 9 points of instruction
Topic 4.3: WhatsApp for Continuing Professional Development
Topic 4.4: Remote coaching and mentoring with Whatsapp
Topic 4.5: Using Whatsapp to reach out to Hindi medium students

Friday Day 5: Wrap up: Some Use Cases and Tips
Topic 5.1: Synchronous, asynchronous and fast asynchronous learning
Topic 5.2: Bloom’s Taxonomy
Topic 5.3: Topics for which Whatsapp courses have been developed.
Topic 5.4: Using WhatsApp to deliver remote lectures
Topic 5.5: What next? Launching your own course(s)

About:  Shashidhar Bhat, Founder at greenworkforce.in is assisting his Mentor,  Prof. M M Pant on his mission to spread emerging technologies to the wider audience as part of his Gig Economy venture.

For any other assistance Whatsapp message to +91 9871107526  Registration open