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July 08, 2019 Monday 11:39:21 AM IST

Online course on action research in education

Action Research in Education, Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET), NCERT, announces its Online Course on Action Research in Education for the year 2019- 20. This Two-Credit online course is specially developed for the teacher educators at elementary level working in District Institutes of Education and Training (DIETs), different State Councils of Educational Research and Training (SCERTs) and State Institutes of Education (SIEs). The Online Course is first of its kind with a purpose to help teacher educators in conducting Action Research to address their educational problems. The course also aims at assisting them in conducting Inservice Teacher Professional Development (ITPD) in Action Research. The course shall provide conceptual understanding into the processes of Action Research. The participants shall be required to prepare a proposal on Action Research in their respective areas of work. This is a 2 credit Online Course of seven weeks duration. There will be five modules. One module will be discussed per week (first week of getting started and last week of evaluation and assessment) with one hour per week of net meeting (synchronous communication).