Pedagogy

Course Organization and Activities

Each subject course presents the syllabus-mapped content for individual paper codes. Courses are arranged in Units, Sections and Topics. Resources and Activities are arranged at Course, Section and Topic levels. Students can attempt a Unit, Section or Topic in any order but a specific, completion-based, progressive-difficulty sequence is followed for activities within each topic. Activity completion and performance is promptly recorded in Grade Book. Question feedback, quiz analytics, and Quiz Solutions guide the students. The FlipTeach Program for Colleges or Tuitions has additional user-roles, permissions and reports for Instructors.

  Available Topic Level Activities

Each Topic comprises of 5 types of activities which are designed to address it completely.

1. Active Learning Modules (ALM): 
Each ALM is based on an Active Learning Outcome (ALO). A topic can comprise of 2 to 5 ALMs. Each ALM is an interactive video lesson teaching several concepts. Interactive Videos feature in-video problem checking capability to test your knowledge and understanding. A Knowledge Check Question (KCQ) will pop up intermittently for self-assessment of recall, and confirmation of concepts. Typically, an ALM contains two to five, 1-mark KCQs. Student has to submit the KCQ results at the end of the ALM. KCQs can be attempted once, although ALMs can be viewed multiple times. ALMs are progressively presented upon completion of previous ALMs in the learning sequence.

2. Summary Quiz (SQ):
Upon completion of all ALMs in a topic, the Summary Quiz (SQ) is presented. The SQ is a timed quiz, based on Topic ALMs. It comprises of 5, 2-mark, multi-choice questions to be completed within 5 minutes. For Math, the time allocated per SQ is 10 minutes. Students get 2 chances per question, with a 50% marks penalty per attempt. A comprehensive quiz-analytics feature enables student, mentor or teacher to analyse aggregate, question and option level responses of students.

3. Learning Outcome Reinforcement (LOR):
The LOR activity contains brief notes on all ALOs, and a short video lesson to recap what we have learnt so far in that topic.

4. Problem Solving Module PSM):
Each PSM is a lesson designed to achieve a set of Problem Learning Outcomes (PLO) for that topic, wherein the teacher instructs the approach, method, or the solution to address all possible types of theoretical and/or numerical problems which have either come in previous year exams, or are likely to feature in upcoming semester exams.

5. Theory Practice Quiz (TPQ) or Problem-Solving Quiz (PSQ):
TPQ present several past-year theory questions for the topic. We advise that student should actually key either the detailed response, or at least a summary, in the space provided. Committing to an answer will enable them to reflect on their understanding and later compare with a suggested response. TPQ questions are not graded but the activity contains a 1-mark question which records completion of the module. After submitting their responses, students can access the suggested answers to the questions, and compare. A good strategy would be to rewrite a better version of the suggested answer and preserve in their notes.
PSQ present several past-year numerical questions likely to be feature in upcoming exams. We recommend students to solve the problems with diligence. Detailed solutions are provided to self-assess the correct application of concepts. . PSQ questions are uniformly graded at 2-marks irrespective of the degree of difficulty of the question.

For select courses in Computer Science domain, Virtual Programming Lab activities present a Interactive Development Environment to solve programming problems. 

Section Level Activities

The material provided at Topic level is sufficient for most competitive exams including SSC-JE mains papers. Two activities are provisioned at Section level for Professional level enrollments.

B.Tech students enrolled in Professional learning level will be presented with the GATE Foundation Program (GFP) modules at Section level for GATE-relevant sections. GATE level questions also feature in several placement tests to evaluate higher-order competency of aspirants. Therefore, it is advisable to study the GFP section upon completion of Advanced level modules and while preparing for Semester exams.

The GFP section comprises,

1. GATE Problem Solving Module (GPSM): Designed to achieve a set of GATE  Learning Outcomes (GLO), the instructor will detail the concept and approach, and the solution to several past-year GATE problems associated with the Section.

2. GATE Problem Solving Quiz (GPSQ): GATE aspirants are expected to independently solve several past-year GATE problems presented in the quiz. For ease of computation each problem is scored at 2-marks.

Course Level Activities

Course level activities are available to all students, as per their Enrollment level.

Doubts Forum: Students may share their doubts to the community on this forum by creating a new thread or respond to earlier threads. Threads may be moderated before release. Available to all levels

Feedback: This is an avenue to submit feedback on technical issues, content oversights or any sort of feedback. All feedback are anonymous. Multiple feedbacks can be submitted. Feedback may be moderated as required. Available to all levels.

Kaun Banega Lakhpati (KBL) 1, 2, or 3: A game module where questions appropriate to the opted Learning Level  are posed to the student. Styled on line of the popular game show KBC, KBL comprises of 15 levels and 4 lifelines which the students utilise on the way to the top. Play instructions are inside the game. Limited attempts are available. Being part of the Revision and Reinforcement strategy, unseen and previously-seen questions are presented. KBL1 is available to Essential level enrolments. Advanced level can access Level 2, and Professional level can access Level 3 in addition to lower levels. Leaderboards display names of top rankers.

StudentQuiz (StuQ): A creative as well as a revisionary activity, StuQ requires students to create and pose new questions to the community, and in the same manner answer community-created questions on the subject. Questions may be moderated before general release. Students can rate the perceived difficulty, and comment on the questions, and save for later use. Another application is the ability to filter the available questions by topic-tag, key-term, difficulty level, recency etc., and create a custom quiz to practice for upcoming challenges. A leader board displays top achievers in the activity. Available at Advanced level and above.

Course Mastery: A course gamification where points are awarded for completed activities in the course. A leaderboard displays top achievers. At the Dashboard level, Course Mastery widget displays progress across all enrolled courses.

Additional Resources

Several resources summarised below supplement course activities for a wholistic experience

Certificate of Performance (CoP): A digitally-verifiable, live certificate is available to students at Advanced level onwards which summarises the course resources, as well as the aggregate score achieved at Unit level,

Study Schedules: Students can create one or more Personal Study Schedules to schedule course activities based on Available-days and Enrolment Level. The Essential level students can schedule Topics as per available-days, while the Advanced plan interleaves activities according to principle of Spaced Recall for optimum results. Study Plans can be downloaded in Excel and/or integrated with, and feature in Google Tasks/Calendar.

Smart Reminders: up to 3 topic completion reminders are periodically emailed on alternate days, to Advanced and Professional enrolments after commencement of that topic.

Gradebook: Course Gradebook displays achieved scores at individual activity level, and as aggregated at Topic, Section and Unit levels. It implicitely reflects the completion status of various activities in the course.

Video Play Time (VPT) counter: Courses are avaialble for a 12 month duration from Enrolment subject to valid VPT balance. Essential level is designed for adhoc study, while Advanced and Professional levels aim at a more structured study and definite goals. VPT reports display a counter aggregating the Allocated, Utilised and Available VPT per enrolment, as well historical utilisation statistics per activity.

Browser and Mobile App interfaces: Course activities and resources are presented in either or both interfaces as best suited for the purpose.

Creating Personal Study Schedule for Self-Study Pathway

No two students are alike, or have the same learning needs, and therefore 2Learn attempts to personalise student experience by offering options for Learning Levels (Essential, Advanced and Professional), and for Study Pathways (Self Study, Guided Study, and Rapid Revision).

In this section we look at the steps to create a Personal Study Schedule for Self Study Pathway for sessional or semester exams. with either the Essential or the Advanced learning level.

Select the Start Date and End Date for your Study Phase. We recommend you plan Preparatory and Revisionary Phases separately.

Press Create Study Plan to display day-wise schedule of tasks. You may require a few iterations to finalise the schedule.

Note that the Essential Plan sequences all Topic activities in the same day, whereas the Advanced Plan spaces the Problem-Solving activities 3 days after the Active-Learning activities.

Download the Task list as an Excel, or upload it to a Google Calendar to get alerts. Mark off completed tasks to track the pending ones.