 The learner centric MOOC model is quite a complex model, but apart from the academic rigor that is required in order to create online content, many people are not aware that it requires multiple human resources in order to create such content. I thought we would discuss with some of my colleagues who have been part of MOOC creation in the past to know roles of various themes in the MOOC creation and especially in a MOOC which has learner centric approaches applied. Like any other online course or any other course for that matter, instructors are definitely the starting point. The ideation, the plan, the design of what is to be covered and in what manner it has to be covered is ideated by instructors. But at this point, I remember maybe 11 you can add to this that a single instructor is not the best idea many a times, right? Yes, I would like to really add that now this course as an example and many other courses we have attended have more than one instructor and that brings a lot of expertise and there is a lot of topic allocation that goes and we have specialists, different specialists giving their views which makes the course very rich, I think. Yes, so the course instructors and the co-instructors actually together kind of make the spine of any course, right? Yes, sir. In fact, there are multiple teams along with the instructors and co-instructors team who orchestrate the whole course and as a part of that, TAs have to play a very important role because they drive the daily orchestration schedules of a MOOC and they have to coordinate with multiple teams of the MOOC creation whole process. They have to coordinate with the instructors for the final content and all. They have to coordinate with the other teams in order to go ahead with the content for the production of pipeline and they have to make sure that the flow of the MOOC is properly managed and the daily activities or the weekly activities are released on time and there are no issues faced by the learners on the platform and lots of other things have to be taken care of. Absolutely. I think therefore you can see that some of the good courses have a lot many TAs than just one teaching assistant or teaching associate. The next cohort that is actually responsible for the most important part of the course which is content. So, there is a content design team or we can call them as content creation team and they have multiple layers within that because content can be kind of discussed in various other aspects also. So, I would like to say that maybe we should start with the instructional design of the course. So, that forms part of it. So, the blueprint of the course and especially when we are talking about an LCM-mified course we need to know where to add the LCM components. Where does the LBD go? How many LBDs do we need? Where is the LED? What is going to be an LED? Is it a video? Is it going to be a document? So, is it going to be a podcast? All those decisions regarding every component and where it has to go and how many has to be placed is a part of the instructional design. In fact, if we consider along with these there are lots of activities also involved on a MOOC platform and starting from the activity design to the delivery of the activity and also validation of the activity for the learners and as per the content. TES have to do a lot of work over here. They have a lot of responsibility. It's not because it's not just a simple activity on a MOOC. If it's an LCM MOOC, obviously these are the learning by doing activities which have feedback, which have constructive feedback and that's why it's very, very important to make sure that these activities are designed in such a way that they can also act as formative assessments like the practice LBDs and also for summative assessments. So these content along with the assessment kind of go hand in hand and it's always good to have two separate teams look after that. It's not a good idea many a times to have the same person do both because it just loses its kind of quality of rigor maybe or quality of academics that you want to bring into the course. But there is another team like being a designer myself I can't forget the role of the third team which is the visual design team. Whenever we have created content, you have made slides, you have made documents, you have made maybe videos. All these things require inputs from a visual design team which will kind of maintain a template. Maybe a color palette, font style, various formatting, all that is designed by this team and they keep on adding small little inputs in order to make the course look cohesive and kind of from the single family so to say. So this is yet another team which is typically not listed out in many of the content creation parts. But it is equally important in my opinion in order to give the finish that a course deserves otherwise. Now this is where the content is all kind of set like you have written your script, you have your activities, you have your designs for brilliant presentations and so on and so forth. However we require a team which can actually capture all these things. So it starts with the production team, the video production team which has team members like camera persons and editors. Sometimes we require voiceover artists like if you have seen our course we have some podcasts coming up and we had even documents. We read these people to actually think about various production techniques. And once that is done I think then it is the entire package is ready because we know what is coming where. We also know how it is to be created and then there is a team which has actually created that content. So that makes kind of the groundwork ready and then we require something from technology. So maybe Jaffee you can comment on that. In fact when the whole content is ready what happens is as per the platform of the MOOC the production team that is basically the TAs and all. What they do is they have to fit this content as per the content as per the MOOC platform. So they have to upload the things onto the platform. They have to administer it. They have to make sure that the formats are looking better. They have to test it out in fact to make sure that there are no issues coming up while the course is released. And after lots of verification the course gets released. In fact in the Swayam we release course every week. So every week there is some testing being done and there is lots of content already uploaded. In fact if it is an LCM MOOC there are lots of different types of content that we need to upload and manage. And also design and make sure that those are verified by the course team. So I think Jatin what you have said actually sort of closes the loop. We started with the course creation and finally you have that uploading onto the platform. But what I want to add in and it is a very vital point is that we always need to have a team or keep a team of instructors within it to have a review of what we create. So that starts from the LED script. So we need to check for the clarity of the script. We need to check for the correctness of the accuracy of the script. And looking at LBDs and remembering that there are diverse learners who are taking up the course. Then LBDs have to be checked. If we have used the appropriate LBDs the feedback is appropriate and chosen the LXDs. And when we talk about LXDs that also means checking whether the links are working. And checking for copyright issues whether we have the correct legal permissions and so on. So I think we need and there's a lot of iteration that goes in a lot of discussion that goes in. And that needs to be part of the team. I think that adds value. Here one of the more one of the more important components of the LCM model is also LXI. Which obviously is a very challenging component because the focus questions that we have to design comes up the content for this focus questions comes up from the discussion forum. And these all questions and these all content this data comes when the MOOC is running. So it's very very challenging to design this focus questions for a particular LXI. Make sure that the people learn from it. Also if it's a forum we have to make sure that you know those the links that we generate or the threads that we want the people to read those threads are reachable by them. And we have to continuously monitor those threads so that you know there is no tampering with the threads or tampering with the posts happening on the forum. So in that way LXI is a very challenging part because it has to be dynamically managed dynamically created while the MOOC is released. Correct. So in this actually many people ask me this question like so many people are required. Like I already have a list of let's say some seven teams that are required. Now when we have such a high requirement it's not possible to have such team at hand because you don't get trained manpower for MOOC creation every now and then. So the process that we have followed in LCM model is to recruit the toppers of the previous offering. Now for example the participating members of this panel discussion 11-0 as well as Jatin have been part of the course as learners. They were participants of this course then they kind of completed the course with flying colors. They were toppers and then they were recruited may be invited and recruited as PA or a discussion forum moderator and then slowly they graduated to the next levels of being teaching associate or reviewer of scripts and suggesting where should be the reflection spot and so on and so forth to the level that they themselves have created some MOOCs or online courses for their own purpose and their own topics. So this is actually a secret recipe probably that I can share with all of you those who keep on asking me like how do you get so much of team with you when you are creating such a course and the reason is that orchestration of a MOOC is totally dependent on the platform that we are catering to. So it's an important lesson that I have learned that having created courses for EDX or Swayam or IIT Bombay X or even IIM Bangalore X I have realized that the platform dependency is extremely important and therefore orchestration dynamics are totally platform dependent and we have to take decisions based on the requirement of the platform and the learners who have enrolled at that time. So putting all this together we just thought that will run you through kind of introductory kind of video where we will at least introduce the teams which are participating in creation of a MOOC of this scale. You can visit our web page of the course where we have given a dedicated link for the members who are participating in the MOOC and my suggestion is that please go through that. They have excellent profile, they are proficient teachers in their own respect but they are contributing this MOOC in various aspects right from designing the slides to reviewing the content to writing a focus question or finding out a LXT so on and so forth. So we thought this could be a good curtain raiser about what happens behind the scenes of a MOOC. So thank you for watching and thank you Jatin and Elevenil for joining me.