Our College has active “Research Cell” to encourage debate, discussion and sharing of ideas on research.
Objectives of Research Cell :
- 1. To organize the talks by experts in research field.
- 2. To organize paper presentations , articles publication, action research.
- 3. To organize workshops/seminars/conferences for dissemination of research findings.
To achieve the above objectives Research Cell will organize following activities :
- 1. expert talks
- 2. paper presentations
- 3. Workshops/ conferences.
The composition of college research cell committee are as follows :
- 1. Dr.Mrs.Indira Shukla – Chairperson.
- 2. Mr.Chetan U.Chavan – Co-ordinator.
- 3. Dr. Mrs. S. Samuel – Expert Member,
Principal, N.S.S. College of education, Tardeo, Mumbai - 4. Mrs. N.P. Kamat – Member
- 5. Mrs. S.S.Waghchoure – Member
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Annexure – IX
UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMISSION
BAHADUR SHAH ZAFAR MARG
NEW DELHI – 110 002 :
PROFORMA FOR SUBMISSION OF INFORMATION AT THE TIME OF SENDING THE :
FINAL REPORT OF THE WORK DONE ON THE PROJECT :
- 1. Title of the Project
Design and Development of Web Portal for Teacher Education. - 2. NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Dr. Indira Shukla
C 1102, Prathamesh Residency, Dadabhai Road,
Off J. P. Road, Andheri West – Mumbai – 400 058. - 3. NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE INSTITUTION
Gokhale Education Society’s
College of Education and Research
Parel, Mumbai – 400 012. - 4. UGC APPROVAL LETTER NO. AND DATE F.No. 5-334/2012 (HRP) dated 3/8/2012
- 5. DATE OF IMPLEMENTATION: December 2012
- 6. TENURE OF THE PROJECT: 2 years
- 7. TOTAL GRANT ALLOCATED: 2,97,000/-
- 8. TOTAL GRANT RECEIVED: 2,37,000/-
- 9. FINAL EXPENDITURE: 2,37,497/-
- 10. TITLE OF THE PROJECT: Design and Development of Web Portal for Teacher Education
- 11. OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT
- To design and develop a Web Portal for Teacher education at B. Ed level.
- To study the effectiveness of Web Portal in Teacher Training Programme.
- 12. WHETHER OBJECTIVES WERE ACHIEVED
Yes Objectives were achieved by designing the Web portal, Entire Teachers Training Syllabus was put on a Digital form, for the uses of web portal at the first stage teachers were train to design their own page as per the requirement of the course, the students were trained and encourage for the active use of web portal, some corrections were made on the basis of feedback received from the students. At present teacher training course has undergone a major shift in its structure as well as syllabi; College intends to once again incorporate all the changes in the Web portal as per the new requirements of the revised course. - 13. ACHIEVEMENTS FROM THE PROJECT
Majorly the use of ICT has helped face to face learners as individualized learning, teachers have realized that weaker students definitely benefits by the self learning through the portal as well as it has helped students from disadvantage groups who cannot purchase books. Another achievement is to encourage teachers in experimenting the blended learning approach were face to face teaching is enriched by self learning. It has helped in improving the overall result of the College. - 14. SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGS
Design and development of e-portal project was undertaken, teachers were given personalized training in use of, updation of and administration of the e-portal. Each teacher was made responsible for a number of theory papers. Teachers were given login id and password to use e-portal. Initially there was resistance, teachers are conditioned for lecture method and classroom, face to face interaction. With lots of brain storming and counseling teachers agreed and participated in the whole process whole-heartedly.Teachers, at the end of the project collectively opinioned that the learning experience acquired through the implementation of project transformed them into more ICT savy teacher, it improves the inter connectivity with students, and the gap which is caused due to rigid time tables and student absenteeism was filled.
The valuable contribution of e-portal was saving time in noted making, it became easy to update and add into reservoir created in the e-portal. This saved time was utilized in extra reading and for professional growth. Teachers, felt empowered by freedom to administer the e-portal themselves. Many skills k=like using PPT. You tube, Video, Maps etc. were acquired. There is constant reconstruction and utilization of e-portal as the situation demands. - 15. CONTRIBUTION TO THE SOCIETY
Though the e-portal found very useful for the regular teacher trainees, it also helped students who got for some reason ATKT and students from different linguistic back ground. This College is mainly catering to the needs of children of closed textile mill workers. Most of the teaching staff also belongs to weaker section of the society, in such a situation acquiring ICT skills which requires training and availability of resources, because of this financial assistance provided by UGC, College was able to establish ICT culture, tacking it forward the College intends to continue with e-portal and further improvements to make it more dynamic. By the response received from the students other teacher training colleges have approached Gokhale Education Society’s College of Education and Research approached to start the portal. - 16. WHETHER ANY PH.D. ENROLLED/PRODUCED OUT OF THE PROJECT: No
- NO. OF PUBLICATIONS OUT OF THE PROJECT : No
(PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR) (REGISTRAR/PRINCIPAL)
Annexure – X
UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMISSION
BAHADUR SHAH ZAFAR MARG
NEW DELHI – 110 002 :
ASSESSMENT CERTIFICATE
(to be submitted with the proposal)
It is certified that the proposal entitled ” Design and Development of Web Portal for Teacher Education” by Dr Indira Shukla of Gokhale Education Society’s College of Education and Research has been assessed by the _____________________________________________committee consisting the following members for submission to the University Grants Commission, New Delhi for financial support under the scheme of Major Research Projects:
Details of Expert Committee:
The proposal is as per the guidelines.
(REGISTRAR/ PRINCIPAL)
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY UGC SPONSORED MINOR RESEARCH PROJECT :
- Title: A SURVEY OF THE APPLICATION OF WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES
IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION LIBRARIES IN MUMBAI - Principal Investigator: Mrs. Shilpa S. Waghchoure
- File No.: F. 23-2379/10 (WRO) dated 10 May 2011
- College: GES’s College of Education and Research
The Minor Research Project entitled “A Survey of the Application of Web 2.0 Technologies in Higher Education Institution Libraries in Mumbai” was undertaken with objective to enhance the uses and application of web 2.0 technologies in the libraries to the students, research scholars & faculty. The present study will further elaborate the implication of web 2.0 technology at the higher institute libraries in Mumbai. The rapid growth of social computing or web 2.0 applications and supporting technologies (E.g. blogs, podcasts, wikis, social networking sites, sharing of bookmarks, VoIP and P2P services), both in terms of number of users/subscribers and in terms of usage patterns leads to the fact that the phenomena are also increasingly being used in the educational field and for learning purposes. As it enables different types of learning and teaching settings (formal, non-formal and informal), it is an important driver of innovation in learning. The implications of this revolution in the Web are enormous. Librarians are only beginning to acknowledge and write about it, primarily in the “biblioblogosphere” (weblogs written by librarians). Journals and other more traditional literatures have yet to fully address the concept, but the application of Web 2.0 thinking and technologies to library services and collections has been widely framed as “Library 2.0”.
The study reviewed 21 related literatures from national and international levels published in books, research article, journals and websites. The descriptive survey method was adopted for the present study. Questionnaire as tool for data collection was designed. The questionnaire as a tool is used for data collection. The questionnaire is prepared for the students of the selected higher education institute libraries. Further the data collected is analysed and findings are drawn. The analysis of the data of the present study is divided in two parts. Firstly the evaluation of websites of Higher Education Institution Libraries in Mumbai has undertaken. Secondly the analysis of questionnaire distributed to students has done. Evaluation of websites has made to analyse whether the libraries are applying the web 2.0 technologies to their library services. Secondly the questionnaire distributed to students to find out the use of web 2.0 technology by Total 12 Higher Education Institution were undertaken for the study. They are; Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Indian Institute of Technology, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Institute of Chemical Technology, International Institute for Population Sciences, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women’s University, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Veermata Jajabai Technological Institute, University of Mumbai. Twelve hundred questionnaires were distributed among the students. The responses received were 1032 i.e. 86.00%.
The major findings of the study are that the many of the libraries of Higher education institutions in Mumbai are not having their web page. The application of web 2.0 technologies is adopted by only Indian Institute of Technology Bombay central library. Maximum Higher Education Institutions in Mumbai region are the Deemed Universities. More responses received from the institutes were Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, University of Mumbai and International Institute for Population Sciences. The maximum number of libraries is yet to apply the web 2.0 technologies to their library services. Students mostly uses Wiki‘s, Face book, you tube and twitter. The students main purpose of using the web 2.0 technologies are Social networking is for Information sharing and Scholarly communication. The usage of web 2.0 technologies was most found are for Lectures, Documentary and Adverts.
All together, the use of these Web 2.0 technologies and applications, along with others not here mentioned and others not yet invented, will constitute a meaningful and substantive change in the history of libraries. The library’s collection will change, becoming more interactive and fully accessible. The library’s services will change, focusing more on the facilitation of information transfer and information literacy rather than providing controlled access to it. This paper posits four conceptual underpinnings to Library 2.0: it is user-centered; a multi-media experience; socially rich; and communally innovative.
- Mrs. Shilpa S. Waghchoure Dr. Indira Shukla
Principal Investigator Principal
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
UGC SPONSORED MINOR RESEARCH PROJECT
Title: ICT Awareness among Pupil–Teachers of Aided B.Ed. Colleges Affiliated to University of Mumbai and University of Pune”
Principal Investigator: KALE PRASHANT SADASHIVRAO.
File No.: File no -23-1759/10 (WRO) dated 15/10/2010
College: G.E. Society’s College of Education & Research, Parel, Mumbai-400012
The Minor Research Project entitled “ICT Awareness among Pupil–Teachers of Aided B.Ed. Colleges Affiliated to University of Mumbai and University of Pune”” was undertaken with objective
- 1. To study the awareness about ICT among student –teachers of aided B.Ed. colleges Affiliated to University of
Mumbai & university of Pune. - 2. To study how student teachers use ICT for teaching-learning activities.
- 3. To suggest various measures to create ICT awareness among student –teachers.
As per the objectives formed the researcher has successfully achieved it. Initially as per objectives the researcher has collected the data with the help of ICT awareness check list from colleges of education affiliated to the university of Mumbai and Pune. Analysis of the data presented the holistic picture of how stunt teachers learn ICT skills and what type of barriers they face. As per the analysis of the ICT awareness of student-teachers further recommendations has been given.
The major findings of the study are that the study revealed that student teachers have adequate mastery over the ICT skills. Most students possess primary basic skills of the computer. Students use office tools like word, excel, PowerPoint, access but as far as power pint is concerned some of the students cannot use features like animations, sounds and in access also use of query is a big task for them. As far as the use of e-mail is concerned attachment feature is a big task for the students, more than 50% students use e-mail. Students need the training about files and folder management. Communication via blogs, forums is also a big challenge for the student teachers. Student teachers use and integrate ICT for practice teaching also but its use should be enhanced. Near about 40% students need proper training for the use of interactive white board, digital camera and scanner. Almost large number of students is unable to run new software and zip program, also a few students are well versed with developing and maintaining WebPages. Most of the students are well acquainted with downloading the files from.
ICT is the major concern of the 21st century. If prospective teachers are ICT enabled teaching-learning process will become effective. This project was an attempt to know the ICT awareness among prospective student teachers studying in aided colleges of educations affiliated to the university of Mumbai & Pune. Findings of the study represent the holistic picture of ICT awareness among the prospective teachers. As education is a prime concern of the society this project contributes a lot in this direction. Field of teacher education can initiate concrete measures regarding development of ICT skills on the basis of the findings revealed from this project. Weak areas of the ICT skills can be targeted with the help of these findings. This project contributes to change a learning scenario as ICT has brought revolutionary change in learning patterns.
Prashant Sadashivrao Kale Dr. Indira Shukla
Principal Investigator Principal