Indrajeet Kumar
I am a PhD Candidate in Economics at the Centre for Development Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.
Location India
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Knowing the students is the first step towards online teaching. Knowing in as much aspect as possible.
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Discussing teaching with your peer colleague is of huge help in know teaching experience from each other and sharing the common and finding solution of some.
The best practice is to look for a critical friend, which is difficult some times or to search and difficult some times to get critical friendly feedbacks as well. -
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Since I have not taught online until now, my experience is not worthy to share however, I am preparing through this course to teach effectively if I need.
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A meaningful assessment is based on the experience with the task which is suitable to be performed by an average student.
The feed back or suggestions are like an on going process of improvement, which should happen often, at times weekly or daily so that no much time or effort could be lost in the long run.
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Being indoor with uncertain world today put me on unnecessary fear and anxiety about the future. That is affecting my concentration and time management for this course.
In the same shoes, I can imagine how difficult it is for the students to learn online at this pressing time when they are living in constant fear of performing and at the same time their...
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This course taught me to adjust with the changing times and one of that is to learn how to teach online effectively. The major take away from the course is to be sensitive about students overall capability as an online participant and how to improve it further by letting us know more about technology and teaching pedagogy.
The checklist of effective online...
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The week is informative and skill-building for teachers and potential teachers.
Knowing the capabilities in learning and available resources it the fist step towards steps to online learning.
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Involving students in identifying a topic, focus, or output approach or technique promotes creativity. For engagement and motivation, always
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Out of the three choices: 1) Design to Support, 2) Design to Challenge, and 3) Design to Offer choice; the third, design to offer choice is most appropriate for having an equal level playing field given the differential skills and requirements of the students at their hands at this pressing time.
The ultimate objective of learning is to know the inner...
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Instead of one type of learning type, a combination or to say a balanced combination of a few would be helpful for students given the requirements of the subject and students needs and requirements. Also, the type of leaning depends on the available resource to the teacher and the students have with leas effort, cost, and convenience.
The production,...
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Interaction with students requires to be online while students genrally feel shy to share thier problems online, its easy to say them to contct indivually.
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In online learning, students have to interact with other fellows students on video or audio. while doing this, some students do not feel comfortable, especially sharing the videos of their home and homely activities.
In India where social and economic inequality is caste and community based, we as a teacher must take extra care of the situations. Students...
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I feel that it is time to be (a) engage your self with some activities like learning or teaching, and (b) being realistic of the goals based on the extraordinary situation we all are facing. You can watch movies with positive thoughts and feelings, some motivational speeches, and love your child or spouse and say the love and affection you both share for...
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Technology, Motivation, and Team-work
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As right now I am not teaching as such, the following questions are helpful o know and evaluate the teaching outcomes.
I think the best way to engage students is to give group activities using what's up or google form. this will encourage students to interact with other students and help in their psychological well being at this pressing time when all are...
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Which is the most secure and uswr friendly social networking app or site to engage with stduents for an online learning?
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Dear Team Members,
I from India, pursuing a PhD in Economics, I am not teaching as of now, but expect to in the near future at a college or university level. So I am getting ready for the new challenges due to COVID-19. As most of the students in India face difficulties in ICT resources its challenge to conduct online course here. But, the time may require...
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I am pursuing a PhD in Economics in India and expected to be a teacher at a college or university in future. This moment, when the world, and academia, in particular, is facing a challenge to cope with the new virus, teaching online is the need of the hour and time ahead. Thus, I am participating in the course.
India, where Information and Communication...
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Sure, this is the problem of the world and every country.
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I want to learn the nature and causes of COVID-19 infection in India. I wish to analyse Indian data on COVID through the system thinking and complexity.
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Thanks for the comments!
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Thanks for the encouragement and valuable advice. I am comfortable in previewing book and a chapter; however, to review text is a first for me. Moreover, I am trying to grasp the skill gradually.
Thanks for this course, as the course has life-changing skills to learn.
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Absolutely, I find the article resembles me.
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Hard to do.
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Yes, I used to preview, however, the video gives me confidence. Systematic preview is new and revision, Previewing is helpful in making a plan what to read and gives and structure.
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My conclusion is: I do feel like the three essential 1. to organise study environment, 2. to decide how long I am going to study, and 3. to decide what I am going to study, will be an effective way for my study way ahead.
In fact, I need to improve in tall the three. In the coming days I am going to give much attention to these aspects.
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I start my day by recalling what has left and begin from there. Moreover, it is very important for me to have all the stationaries with me like pen, paper, lappy, and water bottle with me to begin with. Moreover, I not a person to stretch myself more than an hour in one go. I have frequet freaks and thus, stretch my body take water and get back to study.
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I am from India doing a PhD in Economics and joined this course to learn effective way of studying for my research. I am born and brought up in India.
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I am a PhD student and wish to teach other students in this crisis, so have joined this course. Moreover, the challenges of online teaching are country and region-specific and some times student's specific as well. However, my objective is to help the students as much as possible. In India, internet access is still low in far lung rural areas and with limited...
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I am a PhD candidate in Economics from India.
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The information from nature is more reliable to statrt with to form any claim.
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Both primary and secondary sources are important for my work. I expect to go primary sources if available through secondary.
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The interesting and useful aspect of the wee is the searching techniques and I find more confident searching for a project.
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Sure, I am going to include. Thanks!
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Yes, I have used, now I am more confident. Tese techniques are quite powerful in the early stages of PhD research.
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Great! No other words but Great!
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It is really a difficult task to learn where from a research start from. However, generally I would first from google search.
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I am a PhD candidate in Economics, and it is essential to know an efficient way to do online research, so this course.
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I am a PhD student in Economics in India.
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Peer reviewing is like an active process of knowing what I am and what others look like, and learn through.
Feedbacks are subjective in nature, so let it open for the reviewer with minimal objective comments. -
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The simplest problem is the price of each item in the menu, Aisha can target those customers who are frequently buying some items given their income. This will allow the consumption behaviour of the customers based on their income status. However, the hardest problem is delivery time, which may not be in control of the Aisha, this could be external factors.
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Business experiments give evidence based pilicy opportunities.
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The most important part of data handling is to not have unit identifiers in the data set, and keep the files separate and have access to a limited number of people.
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Yes, combining data from different sources can be problematic in many ways, if the consent is already not taken.
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Aisha's data is not clean to analyse. Variables like order date, order day, and dish can be better transformed into quantitative information for analysis.
One problem I am facing is procrastination for some important work as a student. Or, to say I find difficulties in being disciplined in studies. Can anyone suggest the way out using this course?
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The footprint of my data can be seen on Google. Once I allow navigating my location, the search engine keeps a record, and news, updates, and suggestions pop up.
Moreover, google search remembers our history and classifies news and updated accordingly as well. This is good and sometimes irritating also. Being student ist good for me if a search for...
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The entrants of professionals using data extensively in their business are politicians. They are now relying on big data to know voters' behaviours and accordingly plan their campaign.
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True, with the advancement in technology it is quite easier and faster to gather and process data. This has led to a double-edged weapon. For, the technology itself has generated lots of data and thus require sophisticated and advanced tools to analyse and come up with conclusion.
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The problem is largely due to prediction of sells, and thus stocks and labour required. Aisha can study and thus measure trends of her sells, and analyse the same for future prediction of sells and thus business on a particular day, weel. and month so on.
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Being a student of Economics I have to deal with data like staple every day. It from my work or other's work that uses data to convey information.
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I am a PhD student in Economics from India.
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Yes, it is like to know more about the style of planning and organisation skills.
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Well reflected Katie!
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Language is discursive stuff of human life, in a sense that human lives are filled with perceiving through senses and thus words and emotions from oneself and others.
This is why even if we switch to other languages personal uniqueness remain the same but the script or grammar. This is also true when we try to learn English as a second language we...
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Yes, being English my second language I find the same as most of the scholars of the world. However, it could be overcome with practice and learning in the right ways like one in this course.
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Yes, the questions are at the heart of the literature review process, and a good design for a discussion is necessary based on questions.
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The shape of my literature review is investigative in nature. I expect a casue and effect approcah.
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Thanks, Andrea. I have included the question and about when is after i am thinking over it.
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It is a tough task to critic others work. However, after reading a body of literature on a topic developing a sense of similarity and difference critic comes eventually.
Also, its time taking affair to categorise others work and say about the similarities and differences.Yes, now I am very focused on my literature review based on my particular...
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Thanks, Margarita for such a good infromation and clarity for other students.
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Yes, paragraphs begin with statements that are usually explained and supported with references. No, it is common in all languages.
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Yes, preparing concept mapping is helpful to plan the literature review and answering the expected question for the reader in the review. Concept mapping is answering the questions in the review.
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Practical and helpful suggestion.
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Matching reading with specific question is a challenging task. However, after reviewing the body of literature on a topic it becomes easier.
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Topic: What should be the expected changes in public health policy measures in India after COVID 19.
My questions are:
1. what are the present public health policy measures in India
2. what challenges does India face during the COVID 19 outbreak
3. why we need a change in public health policy measures after COVID 19
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Reading and writing critically is a challenging task in the course of a literature review. It needs a disciplined reading and writing process to achieve this. However, over time it improves and editing and proofreading the written text also helps.
Yes, questions play an important role in designing and developing an argument.
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My research is a combination of description and argument.
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Yes, I have. What should be the expected public health policy measures in the post-COVID 19 in India.
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Yes, sometimes, because it requires to read others and a body of literature to evaluate a research work.
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I am comfortable with summarising and paragraphing academic papers. Yes, it would be an advantage to have a software for paraphrsing.
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@JohnStobart Hi, nice to read and thanks for sharing your experience, which is valuable for budding student like me.
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I a PhD student in Economics from India. Today, the world is under the shadow of propaganda of the one of the other. So, its important to figure out, what right or wrong for me and what support and what not to.
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No, I do not have difficulties in finding the research articles on my topic. Yes, I can find the research method, theoretical framework and relevant literature review. Yes, I can identify the difference between a review article and a research article.
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I use APA 6th edition and I need to do a comprehensive literature review.
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I find too much information on my topic, and i use Zotero or Mendely for preparing bibliography.
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I imagine a literature review as a digging deep and finding where does my issue of research has a scope and what could be the data, methods, and theory.
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My topic is the impact of cash versus food transfers on poverty reduction. I have used the following search terms: cash poverty, food poverty, cash food poverty, poverty reduction, cash transfers, food transfers.
It took me some time to get a useful reference after deciding the quality of the source and relevance for my work.
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Yes, organising the literature theme-wise and making sense out of it is great challenge initially. Moreover, critically, discuss the issue in the literature is another aspect that takes time firs ti to understand the individual literature then to understand in the broader body of literature.
Yes, some aspect I know by now, however, it takes me to put...
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Initially, I used to be confused, however, with time and experience I getting ideas. It takes me time to read, to organise, and to write, and rewrite edit and proofread.
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Being a student I read literature reviews in journal articles and reviews related to my research topic quite often. I write literature reviews for my research proposal and PhD thesis. It depends based on the total length of the write-up, while a thesis require at least one chapter on the review of the literature.
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I am a PhD candidate in Economics. Usually, researchers do a theme-based critical literature review in Economics.
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Yes, I have written a literature review for my PhD thesis now, and previously for MPhil thesis.
The purpose of the literature review for PhD thesis now and MPhil earlier was to know my topic better and develop a method to answer the question of my research.
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I am a PhD candidate in Economics, and my thesis title is, "Cash versus In-kind Transfers: the Indian Experience". The thesis aim is to study the relative impact of cash and in-kind transfer programmes on poverty, employment, education, and health outcomes in India.
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It depends on the writer to arrange the paragraph. However, the general statement to specific at the beginning is common of all essays.
4. General statement => 6. Statistics => 8. Paragraph leader => 1. supporting sentence => 5. Statistics (again) => 3. supporting sentence => 7. Thesis statement. => 2. Outline
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I would follow statement 2. For, it is quite difficult to chalk out a complete plan in one go, and it is folly to not have any plan at all.
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The reasons for water privatisation in the global south is manyfold. The water companies are not in public hands and the private management of these companies decides the prices. The two consequences of private ownership are lack of investment by the private companies and efficiency of the public companies. Moreover, World bank also pressures the governments...
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The paragraph leader is: privatisation has failed on several counts.
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1. development of a vaccine for the disease is a high priority.
2. without government intervention the dispute can not be settled.
3 chemical analysis of the copper revealed a high content of copper
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Key points from the paragraph on the impact of water privatisation on pricing are:
1. issue of financial stability
2. recovery of operating cost for service suppliers
3. affect o low-income consumers
4. unaffordibility issue
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Apart from Wikipedia, all other sources have the credential to be included in the study. However, the published journal articles are more of quality over others. One more source I would like to include is a latest publication by the world bank on water privatisation in the global south.
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The two weeks were satisfactory as a learner.
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It is good to know more of others way of learning and writing.
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An essay is a genre of writing that is often used by students at university in order to demonstrate their knowledge of a subject and usually has an introduction which includes a thesis statement.
The above definition of an essay is well on the purpose of an essay.
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Lecture: a formal talk given to a group of people in order to teach them about a subject
Seminar: a meeting of a group of people with a teacher or expert for training, discussion, or study of a subject
Tutorial: a class in which a small group of students talks about a subject with their tutor, especially at a British university
Independent learning:...
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How to use different types of dictionaries for various purposes was interesting this week.
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Thanks, I do not have any specific question.
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Resilient: does not get way when in a difficult or demanding situation.
Peers: fellow classmate or one who does the same in the profession
Community: a larger group of people who does the same and being in the same profession
Interactive: being involving through question answers and clarification
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No, it depends on the context of the situation to use a particular word which has meaning reflected from the sennce rather than its word alone.
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A monolingual dictionary gives the generic meaning of a word, while leaner dictionary gives meanings in specific context and usage.
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Monolingual dictionary: it's good for native speakers, however, for more on a word its always better to go for learners dictionary
Bilingual dictionary: for a non-native speaker its always helpful to know the meaning of a word in their own and then explore it further.
Leaners dictionary: it is good for both the native and non-native speakers but jumping...
