 Welcome to this reflection week. This is a course level reflection spot. What does that mean? What it means is we want to take a pause now and reflect on your journey in this course so far. Which elements do you feel most comfortable with, most confident about, which elements are you likely to incorporate in your own teaching? So let us take a pause here. Think about this question, maybe write down your answer and then proceed. Now some of you may have felt that so far up to this course you are more confident with framing of reflection spots. Some of you may have felt that you are more confident with designing assignments or maybe creating prompts for discussion. On the other hand, there may also be people who may have felt that look I can do designing of assessments but I am not so confident about framing of the reflection spot. So the purpose of this week is for all of us to be able to catch up on the topics that we are not feeling so confident about. So let us ask ourselves this question, why do we need a reflection week? What all purpose does a reflection week serve? So maybe you could think about writing one or two such points before you proceed. So when we think of a reflection week, it actually has a different purpose for a learner and a teacher. So if you think about a reflection week from the perspective of a learner, which is what you are in this particular book, we may have thought that it gives you time to reflect on your progress which is what we just talked about or you may feel that it gives you time to renew focus in the content of the course and catch up. So those are very valid reflection week reasons from a learner's perspective. From a teacher's perspective also there is a lot of value to a reflection week because what happens is as teachers we often feel that the learners have understood. And when we give them a reflection week in which we are doing revision, typically we would call it a revision. That is when we can see whether learners are able to apply their understanding, are they able to translate what we thought they have learnt into actual learning. So teachers also find it very useful to check learners understanding and to make any course corrections if required. So these are the reasons for why a reflection week is an important thing to have. Now coming to the question, is a reflection week applicable only for a MOOC? What do you think? This is a MOOC and obviously we are having a reflection week so clearly it is applicable for a MOOC. But how about an online course, do you think a reflection week is applicable? Yes because the same reason holds that the learners need some time to connect their learning. So they have learnt discrete things so far like in this case you have learnt about LED's, LBD's, LXT's, LXI's and in the reflection week is when you have time to connect all this knowledge and put it together. So irrespective of whether it is a MOOC or an online course or even a face-to-face classroom, a reflection week is very useful. In a face-to-face classroom for example you would get a lot of questions, typically you might get questions of the type that okay what are the questions that are going to come in the exam? Can we do some more practice on questions that are likely to come in the exam? So that those sort of questions you would get in a typical undergraduate class if you are doing a reflection week. If it is a postgraduate class or if it is a teacher's audience like yourself, the reflection week you might get questions like okay I have created this LED, is this the way to go or is there some other resource that is available for creating LBD's and so on and so forth. So all in all a reflection week is a very useful feature to include in a course be it face-to-face or online or a MOOC. Now you are watching the LED of this week. You have seen some reflection spots in this LED itself okay. So corresponding to this LED now there have to be LBD's right. So if you apply the basic idea of LED, LBD, LXT and LXI, this week itself should also have an LED, LBD, LXT and LXI. So let us come to what is the LBD of this week okay. So the LBD of this week you know there is a very interesting loop here. The LBD of this week is making you create an LBD for your own course okay. So you have seen about LBD's. So one thing that you could do as the LBD is to create one LBD for one topic of your course. Another LBD you could do is to add a reflection spot in your own content. Use the LED constructor to create a reflection spot to insert in your own content. So there is a LBD about the LED here, there is an LBD about the LBD here and then we also have an LBD about the LXT where you can use the LXT constructor to create a list of LXT's for your topic. And finally you can also use the LXI constructor to create a focus question for your own students to discuss for that topic. So the LBD of this week actually has four parts. One is to do something with an LED of your own topic, another is to do something with an LBD for your own topic, a third one is to find an LXT for your own topic and the fourth one is to create an LXI for your own topic. So this completes the LBD of this week. So now we have looked at the LED reflection spots of this week. You also have an idea of the LBDs of this week. What is the LXT for this week? The LXT is our job, we have to create more resources for you. So in this week we have some resources which help you understand the components of the LCM model better and they help you to dive deeper into further aspects of the model. In addition to that we also have resources which are readings on the usefulness of making students reflect during a course. So these will constitute the LXT for this week. And finally what is the LXI for this week? Now you are all familiar with LXI in the past few weeks. So the focus question for this week will be for each of you to say one thing which you found most useful from the content that has been covered so far. So to summarize this reflection week we have an LED wherein we talked about why we need a reflection week, what are its advantages to the learners and to the teachers and whether a reflection week is applicable in a MOOC, how it is applicable in online and how it is useful in a face-to-face setting. We also did some actual reflection of the content that has happened so far where you reflected on what you have learnt and how you can apply it in your own learning. Then you did some LBDs where you created some content for your own course, there are LXTs for you to deepen your understanding and finally there is an LXI where you can compare your learning with your peers.