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TEACHING LEARNING CENTRE RAMANUJAN COLLEGE

(Accredited Grade 'A* by NAAC) UNIVERSITY OF DELHI

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01 October - 15 October, 2020

Research is a process of investigating and analyzing through proper application of

tools. It facilitates an in — depth understanding of a particular issue across disciplines. It

is a continuous process which leads to new ideas, improvements and development. An

efficient researcher needs to be informed about the different methods and tools of

research. One such aspect is quantitative analysis of data collected. The process of

research and the associated tasks need to be conceptualized appropriately to bring in

the much needed quality in the research. Every task involved, like collection of data,

searching literature review, deriving a mathematical or computational solution or

presentation of the results, requires a concrete and systematic approach. Formulation of

such an approach requires immense deliberation in terms of the tools and techniques to

be deployed as well.

This Online Faculty Development Programme was diligently planned around

developing the foundational knowledge needed to step into the arena of research. The

sessions were intended to enhance the ability of the participants to undertake

independent research in a planned manner, identify appropriate and significant

literature review, design questionnaires, collect and analyze data, perform simulations

and, to assist them in writing research papers for good quality journals and also The

participants have trained to use several open source tools that are useful in

accomplishing their research outcomes. The primary tools covered are those that would

aid a researcher in a systematic background knowledge probe, data visualization,

writing research paper, preparation of Research proposal, Quantitative and qualitative

research, and prevention against plagiarism. The FDP is designed to disseminate

knowledge of some of the important digital tools used for academic purposes. One has

learnt how to create individual research profiles, find relevant and good quality

journals.

Data analysis tools and methods are useful not only in finding stochastic relationships

in mathematical format, but are significant in explaining the relationships among

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variables. These procedures are used to explain and predict the levels of variables in

interest as well as to test hypotheses about their relationships, and the results are often

used as evidence in a wide range of policy settings.

Given the technological innovations in the last decade, the scope and methods of

research has experienced expansive transformation. In the times when data is being

considered as the new oil, it has become imperative for researchers to translate the

factual data, or numbers into meaningful information which can further the rational

decision making process. An intersection between humanities and computational

technology is needed to change simple numbers into valuable information having a

social edge. This can facilitate the generation of new knowledge and perspectives

around existing issues of social, political and economic importance.

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Using this as a framework, the Two Week Online Faculty Development Programme

emphasized on the use and application of quantitative and computational methods to

make better sense of the information at hand. Using the insights from the emergent

disciplines of Digital Humanities and Data analysis and Public Policy, the FDP

integrated the techniques of Qualitatively and a quantitative Analysis, which are

majorly focused on the interpretability of data through Statistical inferential methods

, with a human centered approach. For this, it used primary data sets from the fields

of social sciences and further it through computationally innovative methods and

technologies.

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The Online Faculty Development Programme has strictly adhered to the

MHRD’s Four Quadrant Approach.

(http://ugemoocs.inflibnet.ac.in/ugcmoocs/download/Guidelines.pdf).

Quadrant-I is e-Tutorial: Video and

Audio Content in an organised form,

video, Animation, Simulations,

demonstrations, Virtual Labs, etc.

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Books, illustrations, video

demonstrations, documents and

Interactive simulations wherever required.

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Related Links, Wikipedia Development of

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Course, Open source Content on the

Internet, Case Studies, books including e-

books, research papers & journals,

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Quadrant-IV is Self-Assessment: Problems and Solutions, in the form of Multiple

Choice Questions, Fill in the blanks, Matching Questions, Short Answer Questions,

Long Answer Questions, Quizzes, Assignments and solutions, Discussion forum

topics and setting up FAQs, Clarifications on general misconceptions.

The Modules of the Programme were meticulously designed to reflect all the four

Quadrants specified by the MHRD and the topics covered in each of the sessions

were in sync with the content outlined by the Ministry. Expert guidance was

provided by the Resource Persons who are eminent academics and specialists,

through pre-recorded lectures, hands on training sessions, live interactive sessions,

multiple-choice based responses, assigning descriptive tasks, collaborative learning,

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Inaugural session

The Inaugural session was addressed by Dr. S.P Aggarwal majorly focused on the power

of technology and how it should be used to help and educate a maximum number of

populations and how to take maximum use of technology during such pandemics and how

to bring change in our constant life with the help of technology and meanwhile how to help

the society grow through the learning and teaching process with the help of technology.

Meanwhile Dr. Aggarwal mentioned about the importance of Reserach in Social sciences

for each and every individual of every education sector. He elaborated on the vision and

objective of PMMMNMITT scheme that is centered at developing smart classes through

smart teachers.

Dr. Aggarwal also mentioned about the power of collaboration and the importance and

why it should be done and what can be achieved through collaboration. Dr. Aggarwal

spoke about the piognant role of the Faculty Development Programmes in sharpening the

ideas of learners and thereby contributing in creating a rich theory. He argued that

understanding the empirical dimensions of research both in terms of tools as well as

empirical analysis can contribute in constructing theory. The course, he reiterated, will

make enriched research and can also faciliate the participants to translate this new learned

understanding into policy making. Last but not least Dr. Aggarwal focused on the

importance of technology and Knowledge and why to have a crystal clear knowledge of

data analysis in Social Sciences for the better of Society.

Day 1 Quantitative Research, Dr. Manoj Kumar Diwakar

The day started with a brief introduction of the Speaker for the Day Dr. Manoj Kumar

Diwakar Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. The topic for the day was —

Quantitative Research . The lecture introduced with the necessary theoretical background

of Statistics. Dr. Diwakar familiarized the participants with the basic data structures and

tools of the Quantitative Research The lecture discussed the use of Statistical software for

data of quantitative research. Also the participants learn the intricacies of performing basic

data analysis.

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Day 2 Qualitative Analysis, Dr. Jaspreet Kaur

In the Second day the concepts of Qualitative Analysis was taught to the participants by

Dr. Jaspreet Kaur Associate Professor, Pearl Academy, New Delhi. She talked about the

most common ways to analyse qualitative data. The session was heavily inclined towards

the qualitative method of enquiry. It helped the participants to enrich their understanding

about philosophy of science and apply it making more coherent and normatively sound

arguments.

Day 3, Quantitative Analysis by Dr. Manoj Kumar Diwakar

The third day began with Quantitative Analysis by Dr. Manoj Kumar Diwakar Jawaharlal

Nehru University, New Delhi in which he covered some statistical concepts about the data

analysis. The fourth day session was on Research Proposal and Report writing was live

which was taken by Prof. S. Arumugum. First of all sir defined Research and purpose of

conducting Research. The speaker also discussed as to how research writing can be

undertaken simultaneously with teaching. He told that the proposal must be capable of

convincing the evaluation committee about the credibility, achievability, practicality and

reproducibility (repeatability) of the research design. he showed some _ theoretical

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framework to formulate research proposal in which References should be clear when

writing a research proposal.

Day 5 Systematic literature Review and Meta Analysis, Dr. Jaspreet Kaur

On the fifth day Dr. Jaspreet Kaur Associate Professor, Pearl Academy, New Delhi. talked

about Systematic literature Review and Meta Analysis. In which she talked about the

process of systematic review, evaluation of quality of studies, and a statistical meta-

analysis of the study results conducted on the basis of their quality. Ms. Kaur also talked

about how can one framed research question with similar studies which means data from

different studies can be combined. She also told about the Population, Intervention,

Comparison, Outcomes (PICO) the four parameters that are central to evidence-based

research.

Day 6 Indexing Impact Factor & Finding Good Journals Dr. Nikhil Kumar Rajput

The session on indexing covered basics about different indexing schemes, the concept of

impact factor, awareness on predatory and UGC care and Scopus journals. The participants

were also told about platforms like research gate and scholar where they could create their

profile for research visibility and collaboration.

Day 7 Plagiarism Dr. Vibhash Kumar

In this session Dr. Vibhash Kumar Assistant Professor, Department of commerce,

University of Delhi covered topic Plagiarism in which he discussed about detecting

softwares and the types of reports generated by these tools. He discussed few tools for

plagiarism checking like Turnitin, Ithenticate and Urkund. He insisted that one should

always use Urkund (free software by Inflibnet) at an initial level for checking plagiarism.

Day 8 and 9 Latex

In eighth and ninth day sessions were taken by Dr. Nikhil Rajput, Assistant Professor,

Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi on topic Latex in which he

elaborated in a lot detail about the topic, input about the difference in using LaTex over

other writing softwares and the basics to begin using the platform. It was informed how

this software is advantageous not only for the learners of science but also social studies as

it helps to produce research papers/chapters of a publishable quality with more efficiency

and short time span. LaTeX is typesetting system to create a document. It is a free

software available both online as well as offline. He said that it may seem a little bit

difficult to learn and use, but after practicing, you will find it quite easy and effective. The

day also includes the quiz to check the knowledge. The sessions ended with an assignment

and quiz.

Day 10 Revisiting Quantitative Research, Dr. Arnav Kumar

Dr. Arnay Kumar emphasised on the statistical, mathematical, or numerical analysis of data

collected through polls, questionnaires, and surveys, or by manipulating pre-existing

statistical data using computational techniques.He discussed the diffeent research methods

and also how the numerical data can be visualised into graphs, charts, and tables for

analysis with the help of SPSS software

Day 11 Intellectual Property Rights

The session discussed by Ms. Yadav in which she talked about the Intellectual Property

Rights, importance of patents, the intricacies while applying for patent. She also showed

the way a patent is written. Lastly, she discussed the process of filing of patent.

Day 12 Writing Effective Research Article, Dr. Vibhash Kumar

This session was about Academic Writing delivered by Dr.Vibhash Kumar, Assistant

Professor, Department of Commerce, University of Delhi. The session started with an

interactive activity where different learners talked about the problems faced in writing. The

format writing is always a session literary work which need writing skills. Dr. Vibhash has

explained various stages in writing according to different experts. The five elements of

writing, summarizing, paraphrasing, synthesizing, analyzing and evaluation were discussed

in detail. He also explained the need and concept of citation for writing . The do’s and do

not’s of writing was delivered through activity where resource person showed various

sentences to learners and explained the errors in paper citations. Apart from this, he also

focused on the need to develop a kind of academic language for bringing the best from the

research articles

Day 13 Practicing Advanced Searching through Google Scholar, Ms. Bhavya Ahuja,

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

The session on Advanced Searching Techniques through Google Scholar covered in detail

how a precise search for articles could be made through options like search exact phrase

and without words.

Also, it was shown how the participants can refine their search by searching for articles by

a particular author or journal in a customized period. This would help the participants to

quickly retrieve a more precise and relevant set of results

(ii) Refrence Management through Zotero, Ms. Bhavya Ahuja, Assistant Professor,

Department of Computer Science

The session Reference Management was a hands on session with the tool Zotero. A

demonstration of how Zotero could be used with applications like Word was given. The

participants were shown how to add references to their text and how to save articles in the

reference management library for using them later. The use of Zotero for different

referencing styles was also highlighted.

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Day 14 Data Visualization , Dr. Nikhil Kumar Rajput Department of Computer

Science, Ramanujan College, University of Delhi

The session started with a detailed introduction of the Data Visualization. he covered some

crucial aspects of the data science cycle from data import, manipulation, aggregation to

visualization. Real time data set was used to help train the participants walk through the

intricacies of using the application in their specific disciplines.

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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE PROGRAMME

Apart from attempting to equip participants from different disciplines to learn the

different tools which are very useful in research, this Faculty Development

Programme has been unique in the way it was organised.

Participation: 2515 teachers were enrolled and trained through the Programme.

Learning Management System (LMS): The Programme was partially delivered as

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) through the LMS - rm.remoocs.in - which

has been developed in-house and hosted on CLOUD with high scalability and

reliability.

Live Sessions: There were Six Live Sessions including Inaugural,

which were streamed live on YouTube.

Discussion Forums: Discussion Forums 14 were hosted to enable peer-to-peer

learning and lively discussions.

Quizzes: Participants attempted a total of 14 quizzes covering the various modules

of the Course.

Assignments: Participants were required to attempt a total of 8 assignments.

Feedback: Each session was accompanied by Feedback Forms and a total of 10

Feedback Forms were circulated eliciting approximate17000 responses.

Queries Received: 1240 mails

Queries Answered: 1200 revert mail

Use of Media: The Live Sessions were brought to the participants, via YouTube,

and applications like Telegram and What's app were used extensively for effective

communication with the participants.

ORGANISING TEAM

Dr. S.P. Aggarwal

Principal

Dr. Nikhil Kumar Rajput

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

Mr. Vipin Rathi

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

Mr. Sahil Pathak

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

Ms. Bhavya Ahuja Grover

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

Dr. Sachin Tomer

Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics

Dr. Ashish Kumar Shukla

Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics

Ramanujan College (Accredited Grade 'A' by NAAC)

University of Delhi

H Block, Kalkaji, New Delhi - 110019

91-11-26430192

ramanujancollege.ac.in