Introduction to Data Management and Typing

• Basic computer typing skills, including keyboard familiarity and typing techniques.
• Understanding various keyboard layouts and ergonomic principles for efficient typing.
• Mastering touch typing techniques, including finger placement and muscle memory development.
• Increasing typing speed and accuracy through practice and progress measurement.
• Exploring advanced typing skills and applications such as Google Docs and Microsoft Office tools.
• Understanding the role of a data entry operator, required skills, and types of data entry jobs.
• Learning about different types of documents and data formats commonly encountered in data entry tasks.
• Familiarity with free or open-source tools for typing and data entry, such as Google Docs' voice typing feature.

• Demonstrate proficient typing skills and efficiency in keyboard usage.
• Employ ergonomic practices to minimize fatigue and maximize productivity during typing sessions.
• Utilize touch typing techniques to increase speed and accuracy in data entry tasks.
• Measure and track their typing progress effectively.
• Utilize advanced typing tools and software applications for various document types.
• Understand the role and responsibilities of a data entry operator and possess the necessary skills for the job.
• Identify and categorize different types of documents commonly encountered in data entry tasks.
• Utilize free or open-source tools for typing and data entry effectively.

The Academic Approach of the course focuses on the “work centric” education i.e. begin with work (and not from a book !), derive knowledge from work and apply that knowledge to make the work more wholesome, useful and delightful. The ultimate objective is to empower the Learner to engage in socially useful and productive work. It aims at leading the learner to his/her rewarding career as well as development of the society.

Learning methodology

• Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work.
• Learners are then exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
• Learners are then acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
• Learners are then acquainted with the architecture of the tool or Tool Map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions and their inter-relations.
• Learners are then exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level
• Learners then perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made outputs.
• Learners are then engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
• Learners are then encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
• After imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
• Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression.

Evaluation Pattern of KLiC Courses consists of 4 Sections as per below table:

MKCL’s KLiC Certificate will be provided to the learner who will satisfy the below criteria:

1. Learners who have successfully completed above mentioned 3 Sections i.e. Section 1, Section 2 and Section 3
2. Additionally, learner should have completed Section 4 (i.e. Section 4 will comprise of SUPWs i.e. Socially Useful and Productive Work in form of Assignments)
   • Learner has to complete and upload minimum 2 out of 5 Assignments