Professional Learning Community (PLC)—A Model Incorporating ET Practices for Continuous Improvement in Blended Teaching-Learning Process

Abstract

Innovation in teaching-learning (T-L) is always necessary in education to help students to explore their full potential and to enhance creativity and critical thinking. Teachers’ urge for innovation is one of the key factors for its success. It is possible to strengthen conventional T-L process through blending education technology (ET) practices for active learning. To facilitate disruptive innovations in T-L process, we have established professional learning community (PLC) in 2015. PLC focuses on e-content creation, continuous use of instructional strategies and ICT tools during course delivery, use of learning management system (LMS): Moodle for publishing courses, assessment and feedback. For creating contents in the form of videos, we have established recording studio titled ‘E-Learning Centre.’ As on date, we have created @3000 videos of 12-min average duration, which are published on institute’s YouTube channel. Overall at institute level, on an average 15 instructional strategies and 10 ICT tools are employed in T-L process, leading to enhancement in student’s learning while making T-L process a joyous experience. These blended T-L process is benefitting both students and faculty members to a great extent heralding the dawn of disruptive innovation in T-L process. This inculcation of blended T-L under PLC resulted into smoothly shifting overnight from physical classroom to an online mode of teaching during COVID-19 pandemic.