Open Educational Resource

Learning Dialogue Video and Learn-by-

Doing activity on Embedded Systems
using WordPress and Google Forms

Created by: RC1150, Team 713

Mr. A. G. Bhosale
Mr. P. S. Bidkar
Mr. K. D. Salunkhe

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You are free to use, distribute and modify it, including for commercial purposes, provided you
acknowledge the source and share-alike.

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 Table of Contents

Open Education Resource: Learning Dialogue Video and Learn-by-Doing

Activity using WordPress and Google Forms ...................................................... 3

Section 2: Design Decisions ................................................................................. 4

Section 3: OER Description .................................................................................. 6

Section 4: Evaluating Effectiveness of OER ...................................................... 11

Section 5: Consolidated Log of Team Work ...................................................... 12

Section 6: Building a Community of Teachers using LeD videos and LbD

activities .............................................................................................................. 13

Works Cited ........................................................................................................ 14

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 Open Education Resource: Learning Dialogue Video
and Learn-by-Doing Activity using WordPress and
Google Forms

About OER
The OER has a Learning Dialogue (LeD) video on Embedded Systems course followed by a
Learn-by-Doing (LbD) activity. The video is based on Introduction to Embedded Systems
and its types.

The OER is available on the following WordPress website

https://team713.wordpress.com/oer/
Target Audience: Third / Fourth year Engineering Students (Electrical and allied
domain)
Tags: OER, Learning Dialogue, Learn-by-Doing, Embedded Systems, WordPress,
Google Forms

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 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/

Learning Objectives
After using this OER, learner will be able to:

 Understand what is an Embedded System

 Distinguish between different types of Embedded Systems
 Categorize the any given Embedded System into its appropriate type

Helpful Documentation for Tool Use

[1] Instructions to create a website on WordPress.com

[2] Video tutorial to create a screencast using CamStudio software

[3] Procedure to create a quiz using Google Forms

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 Section 2: Design Decisions

The type of decisions that were taken while creating this OER were of following three types

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

Content Decisions included

a. Which course should be selected for OER

This decision was made taking into consideration the area of expertise of all the team
members. All team members have taught the subject atleast once.

b. What topic from the course should be selected?

The topic selected was basic and of introductory level, since we had to create a video
of less than 10 minutes. If advanced topic was selected, then be have to revise some
background concepts. So the video duration may had crossed 10 minutes.

c. Which books or web resources should be provided for references

We have used Embedded/Real-Time Systems book by Dr. K. V. K. K. Prasad,

Dreamtech Press.

Pedagogic Decisions included

a. Creating a Learning Dialogue video of “Understanding” cognitive level according to
Digital Bloom’s Taxanomy. Since the topic was basic or introductory level and factual,
the cognitive level was chosen as “Understanding”.
b. Creating a Learn-by-Doing activity for assessment, by providing multiple choice
questions using Google Forms. The question included in quiz were analysing type of
questions.

Technology Decisions included

a. Using Camstudio software for creating screencast

CamStudio is a free open source software. It is very small in size, 2.04 MB

approximately. It is also very easy to use.

b. Using Wordpress for disseminating the Learning Dialogue video

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 We can create a free website using WordPress, also it is very easy to use.

c. Using Google forms for Learn-by-Doing activity

Google forms is a free service provided by Google. It can be used to conduct online
quizzes, surveys etc. It also does the analysis of all the responses and saves the
responses in a Google spreadsheet on Google Drive.

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 Section 3: OER Description

Active OER
For checking the active OER, you may visit our WordPress website
https://team713.wordpress.com/oer/

WordPress Website creation

We can create a website using WordPress or Drupal etc. We have used WordPress for creating
a website. For this we have to create an account on WordPress.com. Once we have created an
account following screen will occur.

Step 1: Select the option Start with a website.

Step 2: Give suitable address to your website

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 Step 3: Select the free option

After this select the Free Plan, then click on View my site button. Now after the website has
been created the next step is to customize it. We have to provide the site title, add pages if
required. In our case, we have added a page called Open Educational Resource. After adding
the page we can edit it, put the necessary information etc.
We have uploaded our Learning Dialogue video on our YouTube channel. On YouTube,
below the video we get the following information

Click on share, then click on Embed then we get the highlighted link. Copy this link. On
WordPress page where you want to embed the video, click on edit at bottom of the page.

Then click on HTML and paste the copied link from YouTube.

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 Finally click on Update button on right top corner of the page

Now the video from YouTube is available on your website.

Camstudio Software
CamStudio is an open-source screencasting program for Microsoft Windows released as free
software. The software renders videos in an AVI format. It can also convert these AVIs into
Flash Video format, embedded in SWF files.

How to create the video using CamStudio is available on this link

The video that I have created using CamStudio is available on this link

Google Forms
We have used Google Forms for creating Learn-by-Doing activity. Using Google Forms we
have created a quiz for assessment. For doing this we can select a blank form or a readymade
template. We have selected a readymade template named as Assessment.

We can add or remove the fields on the template. We can add the fields like Class, Division
and Roll number etc.

We can add different types of questions like True or False, Multiple choice questions, short
answers, dropdown, checkbox etc.

Click on any of the field on the form, then click on the plus (+) button as shown below, it will
show the type of questions that we can add to our quiz.

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 The quiz preview looks as shown in the picture below

Google Forms do not provide much control over the quiz. The controls like timed quiz, security
password to open quiz etc. are not available.

How to use this OER

 A teacher has to provide the website link to students, where the LeD video is
uploaded.
 Then students can watch the LeD video.

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  Immediately, after watching the LeD video, students have to attempt LbD activity
(Quiz)
 Once all the students have attempted the quiz, the teacher can view and analyse the
responses
 From the results, the teacher will come to know how much the students have
understood from LeD video.
 At the end students or teachers who have used this OER have to fill the survey. This
survey will help the creator of the OER to know about the quality of the OER. Also he
can get suggestions for improvement.

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 Section 4: Evaluating Effectiveness of OER

The OER is going to be used by students as well as other faculty members. The OER must be
useful for everyone who use it. Thus, to check how much useful a particular OER is? It must
be evaluated by everyone who use it.

Effectiveness at the student level

The effectiveness of OER at the student level can be evaluated by looking at page views on
WordPress website. More number of views indicate more number of people have viewed the
OER and hence, it indicates that the OER is easily accessible to everyone.

The effectiveness of student learning can be evaluated from the quiz created using Google
Forms. If students score good marks the it can be inferred that they have understood the concept
of Embedded Systems that was explained in the Learning Dialogue video. The detailed analysis
of the grades of students who have attempted the quiz, is available in the spreadsheet on Google
Drive.

Effectiveness at consumer level

This OER can be used by other teachers who want to explain the concept of embedded systems
to their students. Since this OER is under Creative Commons License, it can be used, modified
or distributed by any teacher to his/her students.

Also we can conduct a short survey about the OER, to check its effectiveness. The survey can
be conducted using Survey Monkey.

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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

Mr. A. G. Bhosale (Team Leader) 1 hour
Discussion Mr. P. S. Bidkar (Team Member 1) 1 hour
Mr. K. D. Salunkhe (Team Member 2) 1 hour
Mr. A. G. Bhosale (Team Leader) 1 hour
Tool Exploration Mr. P. S. Bidkar (Team Member 1) 1 hour
Mr. K. D. Salunkhe (Team Member 2) 1 hour
Mr. A. G. Bhosale (Team Leader) 2 hours
OER Creation Mr. P. S. Bidkar (Team Member 1) 1 hour
Mr. K. D. Salunkhe (Team Member 2) 1 hour
Mr. A. G. Bhosale (Team Leader) 3 hours
OER Documentation Mr. P. S. Bidkar (Team Member 1) 30 mins
Mr. K. D. Salunkhe (Team Member 2) 30 mins
Mr. A. G. Bhosale (Team Leader) 1 hour
OER Evaluation Mr. P. S. Bidkar (Team Member 1) 30 mins
Mr. K. D. Salunkhe (Team Member 2) 30 mins

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 Section 6: Building a Community of Teachers using
LeD videos and LbD activities

The community of teachers using LeD videos and LbD activities can be built by having a
website. The website must be related to a specific domain. After the peer reviewing process,
faculties from same domain can come together to contribute for creating Open Educational
Resources helpful for all.

For connecting with each other we must have some sort of contact information of other
teachers, and for collecting the contact information we have a dedicated menu called Contact,
on our WordPress website.

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 Works Cited

[1] Procedure to create a website on WordPress.com (Online) available at

https://learn.wordpress.com/quick-start-guide/

[2] Procedure to create a screencast using CamStudio software (Online)

http://camstudio.org/videotutorials.htm

[3] Procedure to create a quiz using Google Forms

https://support.google.com/docs/topic/6063584?hl=en&ref_topic=1360904&authuser=0

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