 Thank you. Anapurna and Arthi, the floor is yours. Thank you, Igor. Arthi, would you start? Yes, yes, of course. So warm greetings to the moderator of the session, audience, and the entire education, open education community. Today I, Arthi Yadav, and my co-presenter, Anapurna Madhuri, are here to present on the topic, a pathway towards enhancing quality of mood, perspective of students. I and my co-presenter have developed and offered mood under open education for better world online mentoring program. And as a developer, we felt the need to know more about the perspective of students regarding the mood they attend. The findings of the study will provide useful information for the developers to improve upon the accessibility and quality of their moods. Now I invite Anapurna to reflect further upon the research objectives. Anapurna. Thank you, Arthi. So taking this forward, let us first understand the background of our study. Do we really need to chalk out a pathway for evolving the quality of moods, enhancing the quality of moods? Do we need to evaluate the moods from the perspective of the learners? Perhaps yes. Whether we want it or not, moods are here to stay. And so there is a drastic need to create quality moods dealing with the challenges of creation, curation, deployment and access. The present study against this background is an effort to understand the needs of the learners and use the insights to overcome the challenges in designing better learning experiences for the learners. The study reflects on students' experiences related to the course openness, massiveness, degree of communication, collaboration, certification, social inclusion, quality assurance and assessment strategies. The paper, let me tell you, was rated strong. So as being rated strong by the reviewers, we felt that we had been extra responsible and we have put up our best efforts to make enough so that it may be utilized by the developers in designing engaging learning experiences to the learners. So the research objectives, we have kept it very short. We have only three research objectives to assess the reach of the moods in terms of openness and degree of freedom exercised by the learners. The second one is to comprehend the expectation of the beneficiaries in terms of course content, assessment, communication, collaboration and certification. And the third one is evaluate all the points to be considered to make quality open access educational content on the basis of the study which is related to the first two objectives. So the method we adopted was a survey method and we designed a tool, we designed a questionnaire for the participants. The questionnaire contained 31 items and so we administered the questionnaire to the people who had taken any kind of online courses offered in the Indian context right from OE for BW MOOCs to the Swayam NPTEL and also courses available on other platforms. So the data says that we had 56.9% of our people were males and 43.1% were females. Most of the participants, the respondents for this were from the age group 20 to 29 that is 66.2% and the age group above 50 was only 3.1%. All the respondents were from India. So the complete study is based on the Indian context itself. So talking about the first objective, so we tried to access the MOOCs in terms of their reach to the access to the people, openness and the degree of freedom exercised by the learners. So in that category we first talked about the source of information. How did the learners come to know about the course? So 66% of the respondents said that they got to know about the course from their institution itself. So this reflects a culture where MOOCs are a part of the institutions or at least are becoming a part of the institutions. So they are backed up by the institutions and that is huge for us. Then we talked about the platform on which the course was offered. So the most popular platform is Open Learn in which we had around 21.5% of the people enrolling into these courses. Then we had Moodle in which 16.9% of the respondents had enrolled. Then NPTEL comes the next with 17% of our respondents enrolled in courses offered by NPTEL and Swayam and Mukid follow with 15.4% of the enrollments each. So the language in which the course was offered was largely English. So one course was offered in Hindi and 3% of the people suggested that it would be good if the courses would be offered in other languages as well. So India being a multilingual country, there's a vast scope of having these MOOCs in multiple languages so that it reaches a large amount of population. So that said, the platform that was considered, we asked the learners about the ease of access to these platforms in terms of signing up for the course, login for the course, viewing and downloading the course content, resubmitting and resubmitting the assignments and to participate in the discussion forum. So we had 81.5% of the participants saying that the login to access the course was very easy in the platforms which they opted for. Then we had 76.9% of the people said that the signing up for the course was also very easy given the platforms and we had 73.8% people saying that the viewing and downloading the content was also good when it comes to the platforms. So that said, moving further, we also talked about the degree of freedom to use the content. So this talks about how freely they could access the content. So the freedom to download the content, 73.8% of the participants said that it was very high, the degree of freedom was very high. And then we had freedom to access the course was all content after the course is over is also rated good, but then the participants said that they had a little lesser freedom to complete the course beyond the stipulated time and also to submit the assignments beyond the stipulated time. So the degree of openness in terms of in terms of enrolling and learning. So we had the openness and admission order of the content order of the content where they could start from. Looks like we have lost Anna Purna. Should I take forward. Yeah, it looks like Anna Purna is losing her connection I think perhaps RTV would please take over. I will try to share. I'm sorry for the connectivity issues. Okay, it seems like we have Anna Purna back. So, so continuing with the digit degree of openness in terms of enrolling was it from here can I start or is that fine. Yes, it's okay. So, we were talking about the ease and admission and order of taking the course content and the self how self based it was. So we had large number of participants voting for the saying that it was very easy to access the course at any time at any whenever they wanted, and it was self based 64.1% of the population of the respondents said that it was self based. You also talked about the digital openness in terms of access to the course access to the platform on which the course was offered and also access to the text material audio video material and the course where which was offered. So we had 75.8% people telling us that the access to the platform was very easy and then access to the course was also easy and this was the responses from 72.3% of the respondents was that the access to the course was easy. Also the course where access to the course where was easy and this was said by 70.07% of the respondents. So with this, I pass it on to Arti. Arti, you may continue. Okay. Fine, so I would like to take forward and reflect upon the second research question that is the focus to offer us study. And here I would be discussing the categories in terms of course content assessment, communication collaboration and certification. And before I go ahead, I would like to appraise you that 46.2% of the participants in a study took up courses belonging to higher education category and coming to the level they adopted, they opted for, I would say that 57.4% of the participants took up 32.8% went for the basic level courses, basic level courses. And now when we talk about the certification, so we asked the participants of this field that strongly feel it's are essential for several reasons. And they say that other certificates provide their motivation and they are essential. They are also required to be added as an additional skill set in the resume. So the developers have to consider a certificate as very essential and it is highly preferred by the participants. Next slide, please. Next slide reflects upon a very important or a very critical information about what are the reasons which are considered by the participants or the learners of the course behind dropout. The respondents say that they never thought of dropping out of the course, but the rest 50% they have cited several reasons. The other priorities in life and due to other important priorities in life, they can drop out of the course. Then 13% talked about the fast pace of the course as an obstacle. Then 10% talks about they have failed to understand the concept of the course. And 7% talks of lack of personal assistance as a reason for dropping out. So these four reasons which have been cited by the respondents are really important for the developers to understand and to work upon so that they can retain more and more learners in their courses and thus improve upon their accessibility of the course. Next slide, Anupulna. Yeah, thank you. So here these are the best aspects of the course which the participants have reflected upon. They think that the smooth flow of the topic, the simple course content, the easy to understand course content, the easy to understand language, these are the best aspects of the course. Then they also feel that the content of the course adds to their existing knowledge. They are satisfied with the reflected assignments too. But now, here what we can see is that the learners feel that if the sufficient notifications are not provided, the feedback by developer is lacking. Assignments can be incorporated by incorporating innovative elements in them. Presentations can be more interactive. So these are the areas which are rated less in comparison to the content part, smooth flow and the course content part. So these are the areas which the developer is developing to work a bit away. Next slide. Yeah, thank you. So now if you talk about assessment here in this study, I particularly want to take your focus upon not on the best aspects of the course with the learners think of course that is a motivation to the developer. But on the aspects which the learners have rated poor, the which the learner have rated fair, or the which the learners, which the aspects which the learner do not consider as the best aspects of the course. Similarly, when we talk about assessment, we see that reflective assignments, they are highly satisfied. They have rated it really good. And quiz questions, of course, they have rated it good. But then we see group assignments and collaboration, we see that the number of participants which rate it as poor are maximum. So this is the area which I feel that which the data suggests that the developer has to take care of, while designing their group assignments or collaboration, and so that this poor rating, you know what it suggests is that this has to be that how the group assignments or the collaboration should be better planned and designed. And next slide please Anupuna. Yeah, thank you. And now coming to the communication. So what were the channels of communication used in the courses. So it has been it is very clearly the data very clearly shows that significantly used as the channel of communication by the doctors, while the WhatsApp, the telegram synchronous sessions, messages, hangouts were there, but in a very insignificant manner. However, emails and discussion forums are very prominent channels of communication used in the courses. Okay, please next slide. So now here I would like to draw your attention to what the learners feel about the enjoyability of the course. So they have shown this regarding group assignment, they it is considered as the least enjoyable worksheets provided for the future use least enjoyable. Now, as we move forward we see the discussion forum, and they are pretty comfortable or they feel it is enjoyable with the reflective assignments with the interactive explanation with the quizzes. So these aspects are the good aspects which they feel they are enjoying, but where a developer can see that they have to work upon again the group assignment and collaboration is coming in the picture. And as reflected by our discussion forum and lack of supplementary and worksheets provided are the aspects which have to be worked upon. Next slide please. So on the basis of the data, what the data has been speaking in the focus one and two. Now we would like to conclude upon that what points should be considered to make quality open access educational content. Please next. So we can see that on the basis of whatever the data which has been looking at, we see that the first of all we see that the channels of communication the most preferred email and discussion forum. So there is a need the learners feel you know that somewhere the connection between the learner and developer is lacking. So there is a need to build strong connection with the learners and by adopting this can be by adopting communication. Address their issues like we can adopt we can go for synchronous sessions. It also addresses the problem of lack of personal assistance as we have previously seen in the data that they had problems they were thinking of dropping out due to lack of personal assistance and support during the course. So we have to ensure active participation of learners in the discussion forum. Then when we talk about the collaboration collaboration in form of group assignments. We need the attention of the developers as the learners have shown that collaborative activities are least enjoyable. The results show that there is a need to improve the planning, the designing and the execution of the collaborative activities. It is not so that they are not enjoying the collaborative activities. Maybe the activities they are not getting exactly how to collaborate in the activities how how to put their best efforts in activities. This has to be taken care of to build a learner centric move. Next slide please. Now regarding the flexibility. The most often cited difficulty throughout the study it is shown that there is a rigid time limit for submission of assignments and rigid time of closure of the course. This aspect of rigidity has to be worked upon to provide more flexibility for submission of the assignments to take the course to learn where they can retain the learners in the course and also to meet their learning needs in terms of flexibility. And of course, certification is considered as a very important aspect as it provides motivation to them and also required for the professional as a document for the professional development. And when we come to the assessment we have seen that reflective assignments and quizzes are really enjoyed by the learners while worksheet for future use and group assignments need improvement. So these were the few questions we could draw upon from the data you have seen. I hope these conclusions and the data for all the developers. Thank you so much. Thank you very much to both of you are the end up or not really appreciate your insights. Unfortunately, we are not of time so we don't have time for questions, but there is a question from England that falls in the chat window I do encourage you to engage with ingrid's question. In the chat, asynchronously, but we do need to actually move to another presenter so thank you very much again for your contribution stay safe, and please enjoy the rest of the conference. Thank you. Thank you.