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Research / Re: Become your own writing teacher

« on: March 07, 2016, 01:36:34 PM »

I have just gone through the link. Found it interesting, specifically the part where writing is compared to painting. It was really an unique comparison but placed in a meaningful way.

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Teaching & Research Forum / Google Scholar: How to Create Your Profile

« on: February 25, 2016, 02:23:45 PM »

Hello everyone! Google Scholar is a useful tool that you can use to keep track of all the citations of your research articles and also find great resources for your research. One can easily create profile in Google Scholar. Simply go through the presentation slide below and follow the instructions there. I hope this will be helpful for students, faculty members and others who are interested in research activities.
 

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Students Issue / Re: Implementation Forum for "Student" related Issues

« on: August 23, 2015, 12:46:59 PM »

Problem:
Students need to be engaged in DIU email more. I have come to know of an issue where students were not aware about collecting admit card for final examination of summer 2015. Circulation through email was sent but a large number of students missed it and got into obvious hassle. A lot of useful and important information is circulated to students through email but its all a waste if not reached.

Possible Solution:
To handle this issue, students need to be motivated to remain active in DIU email. DSA can play a good role here. Also we may encourage email based students' query system so that they can get solution to their queries and problems through email. This will also avoid behavioral conflict among admin people and students in certain areas.

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Faculty Sections / Re: গুগলে দেখা যাবে সমুদ্রের তলদেশ

« on: June 16, 2015, 11:24:34 AM »

Yes really!!! See it for yourself

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English / Re: Games that I practically used in my classes

« on: June 14, 2015, 10:45:18 PM »

Thanks for the useful post!
I am just a bit confused about leaderboard using excel sheet.... Do we have one for one particular course and with each game the result changes and students' names appear in different order?
Can you post a screenshot or something here?

Yes madam. One leaderboard per course. You can use a Google Spreadsheet to make one easily where you will have access to edit the sheet but students will be able to just view it. It will also update automatically as you update the data in respective column. Here is an example of what I am talking about:


if you have problem viewing it from within the forum, try clicking the link below:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bjLOdQMghhtHhisraYkSj-HZflBbVTSoU3uyEn_H0co/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true

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English / Re: Games that I practically used in my classes

« on: June 12, 2015, 09:12:35 PM »

Hello! Sorry for my delayed response even though I said that I would contribute.

I will not directly talk about any particular game that could be used for learning , rather will talk about Gamification itself  that can be used to turn any lesson as enjoyable as a game.

Before we get into Gamification, lets see first what are the common requirement for a game:
1. Goals
2. Instructions to be followed
3. Reward

So to gamify a lesson we need the following in order:
1. Set the lesson goal
2. Share the instruction for achieving the goals
3. Select a reward for the students which would give them the feeling of achievement

Easy right?

Do not worry much about the reward though, it can be a leaderboard which would include the students' name in order according to their performance. The leaderboard can be made with an excel sheet. Students are competitive and this leaderboard can really make them drive into the gamified lesson.

To judge the result use a simple rubric

I hope this will help making a lot of gamified lessons. Feel free to let me know if there is any confusion or simply let me know your feedback. Feedback is important for both teaching and learning

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Use of Forum / Re: Daffodil International University Forum (User Guideline)

« on: May 20, 2015, 11:23:34 AM »

Very informative presentation.

But as another faculty pointed out, adding URL can be explained. We usually copy and paste from the address bar.

You have mentioned it in your presentation to avoid posting replies with 'good post'/'thank you' but in most of the cases that is the case. I have also seen just a smiley in replies.

Replying with just "Good post/thank you/smiley/informative post" is not beneficial to any other users and these posts also make it hard for searching out other useful information or queries from a thread. So its considered as a forum etiquette to avoid replying with just the above mentioned phrases. We, therefore, had to mention it in the presentation. We hope that members in the forum would first read out the general rules of forum and then participate in this forum.

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Use of Forum / Re: Daffodil International University Forum (User Guideline)

« on: May 20, 2015, 11:11:29 AM »

How to add url in the post. I was trying using hyperlink but could not succeed.

To add url in the post use the following tags before and after the url:

Code: [Select]

[url]insert your url here[/url]

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English / Re: Games that I practically used in my classes

« on: May 19, 2015, 03:12:27 PM »

In this thread I have planned to give details about some games I play/played/will play in my classes. As these are tried and will be tried, you can adopt a few in your classes too. 
Do comment if you have any suggestions or add if you have any games. But please do not copy a game from any source which you didn't practice.

Dear Madam,
Gamification is already considered as a very effective teaching method as it promotes thinking and self learning among students. I personally is very glad to see that you are practicing this in your classes. I will keenly observe the development. I am also seeking your permission to share some of my ideas relevant to this topic here if its OK with you.

With best regards,
Khondker Mohammad Shah - Al - Mamun
Assistant Director
Daffodil International University

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Namaj/Salat / MOVED: মাগরিবের সালাতের ওয়াক্ত

« on: March 19, 2015, 02:59:23 PM »

This topic has been moved to Namaj/Salat.

http://forum.daffodilvarsity.edu.bd/index.php?topic=27138.0

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Common Forum / MOVED: জীবনে আর্থিক সংকটে পড়তেই পারেন! জেনে রাখুন কী করবেন

« on: March 18, 2015, 02:41:58 PM »

This topic has been moved to Common Forum.

http://forum.daffodilvarsity.edu.bd/index.php?topic=26774.0

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English / Re: Use of Google Classroom: An useful video link to watch

« on: February 18, 2015, 04:08:19 PM »

If interested in Google Classroom, Please join the following communities:

1. https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/105656821755971246817

2. https://plus.google.com/u/0/114271287388569482172/posts

3. https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GoogleforEducation/posts

With best regards,
Khondker Mohammad Shah - Al - Mamun

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English / Re: Google Classroom and My Presentation

« on: February 03, 2015, 03:59:32 PM »

My students are encouraging me to use Google classroom instead of learning feedback... I don't know what to do!!

Dear Madam,
You may switch to Google Classroom if you wish to. It is more powerful, simple and hassle free compared to Learning Feedback System.

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Online Education / The Revolution of Online Teaching

« on: August 21, 2014, 11:17:05 AM »

The revolution of online teaching

Teaching and learning methods have evolved quite radically with time. Nowadays, almost every modern classroom is equipped with multimedia facilities, and teachers deliver their lectures by using computers, projectors, audio and video references etc. The idea is to provide students with an interactive environment to enhance their learning experience. It, indeed, is a great leap forward.

We now live in a world of technological revolution, where teaching and learning is going through previously incredible changes. Let us turn to the online education system. Already, the best of the universities around the world have adopted this change and have started teaching online. Online teaching has done away with the territorial boundaries, within which a nation's universities operate. They are now part of what we call global. This change comes with a price, as well as a demand. The price is that a teacher, no matter how good she/he is, cannot survive in the process of change with the old set of skills they used to require in the past. The demand of the time is a new set of skills and excellence.

So what has changed exactly? To put it in a simple way, we may say that the previous method of effective teaching was interactive, but still was very much passive to the students. The students had to depend on the teacher's lecture. The teacher just used some typical styles that made their lectures enjoyable, but the students found themselves within a boundary. They could not move out of those confines created by their teachers. The teachers' job was to guide the students into learning something. With online teaching, students are to play an active role where the teachers remain passive. The teachers now have to design their lectures and courses in a way where students are to engage in different activities, through which they discover their learning all by themselves. It is not the teacher to tell them anymore what is right or wrong, the students themselves discover it through guided activities.

The teachers' job now is to design the activities. We must also keep in mind that when we pick the concept of online, it represents a huge arena and it holds the possibility that anyone can be a student from around the world. Be it a twelve-year-old child or a PhD holding professor, they can all be the students of a single course. Revolutionary, isn't it? This possibility has also removed the barriers of age in education. There are many platforms now which have amply pointed to this possibility, especially the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Not only that, there is the possibility for anyone to be a teacher; and here too age and profession are not a factor if they meet the requirements to teach. All this has opened up a great possibility for education to translate into reality what is still out of our imagination.

Now let us focus on the requirements for teaching online. For online education, teachers need to play a passive role and need to be able to design their course activities in a meaningful and effective way, creating opportunities for the students to roam around the world of knowledge themselves and discover the learning they seek. For this, they need to have a good knowledge about the technologies and platforms that are available and which enable them to create and modify and share their course contents with the outside world.

Teachers require knowledge about the available Learning Management Systems (LMS) forums, blogs and tools that help in creating contents for the LMS. A teacher, without having knowledge about these and saying that he or she can handle online teaching, is like one who says he can survive under the sea without being equipped with a scuba gear. Online teachers also need to have the mentality to learn themselves, even from their students, and continuously work to use that learning to improve their courses. Therefore, taking feedback from the students after each lesson, and after the course, is imperative. Online teachers need to pay very close attention to each student's activity and skill levels. Then, accordingly, they create a suitable environment and opportunity for the particular students. Most of the online students prefer learning at their own pace. That is why it becomes difficult for the teacher to get into a direct communication with a student to identify his or her level. The teacher needs to depend a lot on the activities deployed in the course to identify that. In this context, planning the activities effectively is really a challenge to the online teacher. To solve it, the online teachers need to communicate, share and exchange their experiences with each other. Online teachers also need to have really good relations with the technical personnel who work on the platform and update them on the requirements that they felt was needed while teaching online, so that the technical team may continuously work on developing the platform to enhance the teaching and learning environment. It could be a good idea to include a member of the technical team as the course coordinator.

Online teaching has become a demand of modern times, and this demand will only keep growing. Teachers, who are not yet equipped enough for online teaching, should take steps to prepare for the future teaching revolution. As part of the preparation, teachers need to study not only on their respective teaching fields, but also on online teaching methods, the latest tools and technologies; because the related technology will only keep evolving. So will teaching and learning.

The article was published in The Financial Express on August 19, 2014.
Publication Link: http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/2014/08/19/51111

Khondker Mohammad Shah - Al - Mamun
Assistant Director
Administration
Daffodil International University

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Company Profile / Template for Company Profile

« on: June 07, 2014, 08:58:34 PM »

Hello Everyone! Just got a free company profile template and thought that it may be of some help for those looking for starting up their business or company but not sure how to prepare the company profile. So here it is:

Company Profile Template - DOC