Managing Learning Resources

By Dr. Uday Chand Kumar | National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Kolkata

Learners enrolled: 317

Information represented, accessible, or stored in a variety of media and formats that helps learning are Learning Resource Materials. It includes books, electronic & printed journals, web resources, audio visual materials, social media, learning objects and newspapers, databases, digital and printed archives & special collections. That is, it is a collection of information stored in a way that facilitates learning. Managing these learning resources at different levels needs to consider various parameters such as proper planning, organization, technology etc. to support principles of resource based teaching and learning. These parameters are very crucial to consider in the initial decisions on learning resources management; otherwise, one cannot expect to get utilized fully these resources. But the creating such a vast learning resources needs investment. To maximize utilization of resources with minimum investment, one needs to follow thoughtful and skilled management strategy. Managing such type of resources is an ongoing process which varies from one part to another but all designated people have to play a major role in managing these resources. Whole process can be classified into four categories and they are (a) acquisition which includes budgeting, purchasing, and binding (b) organization and maintenance which includes cataloguing and processing, accessing; intellectual, physical, digital and assessing, (c) circulation that considers automation and security and (d) promotion.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Not Applicable
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	8 weeks
Category :	Teacher Education
Credit Points :	2
Level :	Continuing Education
Start Date :	20 Jul 2020
End Date :	30 Nov 2020
Enrollment Ends :	31 Jul 2020
Exam Date :

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Email id | swayam@nitttrc.edu.in, swayam@nitttrc.ac.in

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Course layout

Week 01:

Module 1: Learning Resources Materials:

What are the different type of resources,
The different classifications of resources,
What are the open sources of resources,
Licensing,
Copyright act

Week 02:

Module 2: Principle of learning resources

Principle of selection of resource materials,
Principle of utilization of different learning resources,
Consideration of learning resources,
The mobilization of learning resources

Week 03:

Module 3: Organization and maintenance

Planning, organizing, indexing, cataloguing, processing,
The physical and digital assessing,
Binding process of the materials.

Week 04:

Module 4: Financial management:

Policies, Planning, proposal, budgeting, purchasing,
Acquisition, accountability,
Financial auditing,

Week 05:

Module 5: Circulation of learning resources:

Processing, storing,
Computer application security,
Academic audit.
Charging & Discharging

Week 06:

Module 6: Organisational Environment:

Class room environment,
Class room learning resources,
Classification of underutilized resources,
Disposal process of learning resources

Week 07:

Module 7: Distributed learning resources

Documentation,
M.I.S. of learning resources.
Inter-library loan,
Consortia

Week 08:

Module 8: Human Resource Management

Communication,
Staffing, Controlling of staff, attitude
Delegation of authorities.

Instructor bio

Dr. Uday Chand Kumar

National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Kolkata

Dr. Uday Chand Kumar, Professor & Head, Department of Civil Engineering, has been working in the domain of Rural development, Rural water supply & sanitation and Health assessment of concrete structure. He has coordinated more than 200 training programmes on the said topics.

Dr. Samiran Mandal, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been working in the domain of Manufacturing Technology, Product Design, Robotics and Research Methodology. He has coordinated more than 150 training programs on Manufacturing Technology and Teaching Learning Systems

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Date and Time of Exams: December 2020 / January 2021 (tentative)
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