 I understand that you had great fun in the lab today. I can see amazing work done by teams, the courses have been created, but what I conclude is more importantly, I think all of you have got a much better level of confidence of handling these things than when you came here. Is that agreeable? Now, you have to use this experience and of course estimate how long it will take for your other colleagues and yourselves to design the course and so on. But what I wanted for the benefit of all, if one representative of each team can come over here, would all of us like to very quickly see what has been done by that team, one or two people if they could come here quickly. So, we were a mixed bag, we had two people from a very strong social science humanities background, we had two persons from a sort of IT background, but a little one with some science background, I mean a background to the background and one having an arts and IT background and so on. So one was from a languages background, linguistics background, so we really had a mixed bag. So it was difficult for us to find a course to which all of us could contribute in a meaningful manner. So when I came down, I had an outline in mind, so I had it in front of me, but it was very clear that other than me and my group, nobody was going to understand anything here. So we decided on a common topic and the common topic is what you see on the screen here. So this course is called surviving the monsoon in Mumbai and each of us decided to break this up, pick up one topic which was related to this and write a little bit about these sections. So this is what the course now looks like. We thought it would be important to the user, tell the student a little bit about the weather and the geography of the city. Also tell them about the demography because the monsoons without the people there or the people without the monsoon in the city would be a relatively meaningless topic for somebody who was trying to find out about the city or its seasons. Then we also thought that Mumbai being a very strong and very important commercial hub of the country, it would be appropriate to include economic activities that are directly or indirectly responsible for various activities that take place in the city and which are affected by the very heavy monsoon showers that the city faces every year. And of course the breakdowns are famous, so we could not have left those out. And then somebody suggested we are talking about breakdowns, so why not write a small survival guide, so that is again one small part of this course. And it all started looking a little dreary, it looked a little frightening for most of us, we are going to write mostly about the negative sides. So we thought why not end with a positive note. And so we decided to write a small section on the brighter side of the monsoon, which of course we did not get down to writing, we really did not reach that far. But something interesting happened in the intervening hours, yesterday afternoon we recorded a small video. And well that video was not really related to the monsoon, it was just somebody telling a story. But then we thought let us see whether this story has a moral to take home and whether this moral could be related to the topic that we are discussing. And after a little bit of deliberation we thought there is if you are brave you could attach a moral to that which you could relate to this course, so we decided to do it. So at the end of this course there is a small story which was related in that video recording and which you will see at the end of the course. So on a slightly more serious note this is what we did, we thought there are two parts which were very important the weather and the geography. So there is a little bit of a discussion on what kind of weather patterns we have, what temperatures you see through the year and of course how much rain you see throughout the different through the 12 months of the year. Where did you get these graphs? Now these graphs are from a Swedish, sorry a meteorological site, so these are in the public domain. But you had no problem in incorporating it in the. No, that was not a problem, so I will talk about this at the end of what I am going to say in a couple of minutes, because I really want to draw your attention to some things which have bothered me. So there is some text, there are some graphs and we can explain a few things about the weather pattern in the cities around the year. Then there is something about the geography, so there is a map of the city, there is an aerial view of the city at the peak of the monsoon and there is some information about the geographical coordinates, the presence of the sea on the west, the creek on the east and by and large a description of what kind of not the geological but at least the topographical description. And then in the second half we also write a little bit about what how the settlements are, what kind of transport network there is, so that it becomes a precursor to what we are going to talk about in terms of which problems occur and why do they occur. So there is also a small quiz, so this is a small quiz here, so you are welcome to take this quiz, so it is a two multiple choice questions. Now a word of caution though, a quiz I believe should be answerable on the basis of the content that has already been discussed, which means entirely be the case here, it is slightly off, I mean if you know what latitudes and longitude means, then you will be able to answer the first question but that part is not been explained. So this sort of consistency check is not really complete in this section, but nonetheless I think given this background most of you should be able to answer both questions. Basically I mean there are few other sections where we describe some commercial activities in the city, economic activities and so on, then there is something about the risks and dangers that present themselves during the monsoon periods and so on. So what we have done essentially in the first six parts is getting familiar with how to put in a little bit of text, a few diagrams, a few photographs and also a couple of quizzes and things of that sort. Then there is the brighter side which is where the story is and well there is a video to which we also learnt how to add subtitles, here it goes. Today to try out the MOOCs platform and see if we can offer any of our current courses using this innovative software, is it a software? Platform, sorry it is a software sorry. I am going to be telling you a story that you may have heard when you were children about the fox and the stalk. Once upon a time in a land far away this was a time when animals were like humans and they could speak like humans as well. So there was a fox and there was a stalk and they were very good friends. So for the one day the fox invited the stalk for a dinner. So clearly the story is not relevant to the topic but that is not really the entire truth as we suggest in the last part of our course. Thank you. Thank you. So that is what you have done. So great job but I would like to point out one thing, did you notice that independent of the relevance of the story or something, the clarity even in a first trial by a person in a well appointed lab and some good people to capture the thing etc etc. It is easily for example she can actually start giving and recording lectures literally from tomorrow in her own subject. The point is that there are a few things which are not at all very difficult to catch on and carry on with this. I would like one representative from some other team to just showcase please. First of all I would like to thank my team and I would like to introduce them. This is Professor Srirama Krishnan and ITTR Chandigarh and Radheep Kumar. He is the technical head over there and there is Saurabh from IIFCR Pune. Vyasa is there. He is the from IEEE Delhi Rusty. We have what we have done, we have tried to make already created lesson on economics to in a move to convert in a move platform and we have used diagram which is the soul of any economics chapter and we have introduced created certain videos, two or three videos I will show you the videos as well as the course where we have used the diagram as well and in a comics we it will if we introduce the economics we try to give them the theory of demand and so the three dimension what is the relationship, how much is the relationship that is the technical part and I have given you given the overview of the entire course in this introduction that is what we are going to be able to cover this in this entire course. Then we have divided what we have done is I am giving one week lesson plans or the kind of planning which we have for this. This is there are two chapter first is the production possibility curve and before that I want to show you this video as well. This is the introductory video giving you the overview of the course which we are going to cover under this microeconomics. It is edited by the professor Parvijit and Parvijit they did it. It is buffering but because we have uploaded it through of YouTube so it takes buffering time is there. So, we are going to talk about demand as a function of price of the concern commodity price of related commodity. We will analyze this theory of demand using three dimension the first dimension we will be using to explain what is the relationship which will explain with the help of law of demand. The second dimension would be how much is the relationship which will explain with the help of elasticity of demand and you would be knowing that the law of demand essentially a qualitative relationship between price and quantity demanded whereas elasticity of demand is able to quantify this relationship between price and quantity demanded. The third dimension would be why this is the relationship why there is a inverse relationship between price and quantity demanded we will be explaining it with the help of theories of consumer behavior in which you will have in the sense curve approach and marshalian utility approach. And then we will come to the behavior of the firm we will explain the behavior of firm into various markets. This editing part has been done non-competitive demand as law variable proportion and lastly we will discuss about the theory of cost which is derived from the production function. So, there is another dimension of it we have tried to create a video using our laptop as you were mentioning that you require only the laptop you record it and you can do it this we have done. I am going to show you this video as well. There are two dimensions to this one is just see this video for some time then I will try to say something regarding this video why we have done there was some sound of barking and loins and dog as well why we have embedded this video. You can see how easy it is actually to mix things and when you do a screen capture you can play multitude of windows and put things in layers and capture them wonderful. There are two aspect of it one is you make it a little bit interesting so that your student can enjoy as we have tried to do it. Second is the worst part that is why I give it a name disaster that they can download it somewhere on their laptop and can do whatever they want to do with your video. This is the second part so the responsibility on the teacher would we make it more interesting and our subject this microeconomics is very dry. So it is the responsibility of the faculty to make it interesting so that they can take out something out of this lecture. So this is that is how we have planned and quizzes and all the discussion form references and we have given tax book as well over here you can go to pdf we have uploaded some pdf which have been created by us under this NME ICT project. So we have given the link of those these are the chapters which we have tried to take over here in the two weeks. So what I was trying to learn Professor Patak was that we have a huge depository of the digital resources. So the problem which we were facing how to take it to the move a platform. So we try to do it actually how we can do it. So I hope that with the setup and the technical staff we will be able to do good job. Thank you very much. Though my creative part was not shown because of the problem of this. Thank you very much. So everything that I wanted you to try out you have actually tried out wonderful. Thank you. Thank you. Great job. These are the quizzes which we have put. Oh I see. Yeah. Multiple choice questions and so on and okay check save. You have used zero of two so you are giving two chances. Yeah. Okay okay. Question two. But wasn't it fun I mean? Yeah it was fun. Great. Could I have the third thing? Yeah that's right. Great job. Thank you. Thank you. Could we have the third team please somebody. So I would like to just go through the course. I just means the group has decided in the first few minutes what to do and that was really difficult as previous speakers also told. But very soon we have converged that later it should be on the matrix algebra and the moment we came to matrix algebra then we have given the assignment to each one of our group members that you have to do this and at the same time we have been given the instruction that you have to use all the platforms of edX. Means you have to upload the video, you have to upload the pdf, you have to write everything you have to do, you have to set the question. So in these three sections we have given all this platform and then these three groups they have independently put all those things in this material. And then again means my Guruji means you always refer to Guruji I also refer my Guruji he always says that you are a good manager you are not a good researcher. So I took the advantage of Jyotsana and Kasim that whatever we are doing you present. So this whole thing we are adding and then the editing and presenting part Jyotsana is our team leader so she was doing all those things. Go ahead let us see what we have done. Yeah so let us first come to the group member I would like to introduce my groups probably it will not come here you have to go in the beginning of the course. So just starting from edX. So this is the prerequisite about the course we are narrating what this course means and what are the things which we are going to add. And then the course staff who has prepared so Jyotsana, Prof. Oja, Prof. Kasim their CV the bio data has also been updated. Beautiful pictures. Yeah that we have took yesterday in the lab your lab and uploaded those pictures. And once you go from this then this is matrix itself comes like a. Yeah banner also. Yeah banner also no we have taken the from the source on the images of through the Google. And then I would like to go through the introductory video. So Jyotsana is just going through this. So again in the introductory video I have emphasized that the whole task was to learn the edX platform not to present very thing very exciting. This is called a swarm platform. Yeah swarm platform of course in the video I say that it is a swarm platform. So matrix is just I would like to go through the video on the course and why we choose matrix that I also try to emphasize. Concept of matrix I started from the time of Mahabharata. And the first example what I choose was the Chakraviyo. And Chakraviyo was on the framework of the matrix and they were very cleverly knowing that if Arjun is there then he is going to break. So first they have made the Garur view and then after some transformation they made it to Chakraviyo when Arjun was away. So this was the example I took from there. Then I took the example from Dhoom 3 where the choreographer designed the Dhoom 3 music and everybody used to dance on that. So everything say your device on the mobile the display whatever you are seeing all these things use the concept of matrix. So that is why we said that why not popularize these things and that was in the video also. So can we have the video please. The students generally know me as S.K. It is my personal belief. Myself Sanjakumar from department of project Banaras in the university Varanasi and I represent Dhoom 3. The students generally know me as S.K. It is my personal belief that knowledge comes by two ways. Either through the compulsion for which most of us are familiar with or second through my interest the platform which we are going to use right now. I shall insist generally for the second one that is the latter one. In the next few minutes I am going to tell the wonderful world of the matrix and its application. Do you know the device in your pocket? The display through which you are seeing me. Watching the choreography of Dhoom 3 or the end and opening ceremony of Olympiad all involves some sort of concept of matrix. And we are going to discuss these things in the course which we have designed for you. Let me briefly tell what we are going to offer you in this course. My colleague Professor Negi from University of Hyderabad will introduce the brief history of matrix and its application which has been used in the past from the ancient time Mahabharata. Later I shall introduce you the types of matrices and its operation known as matrix algebra. Sanjib and Dr. Oza will expose you with the application. More interesting he will tell you how to send a secret message to your dearest ones without knowing the rest of the world that in the matrix algebra is known as encryption that involves the concept of matrix. Later on Dr. Oza will bring you in the wonderful world of matrix where you can use the choreography aspect of the matrix. Lastly my colleague Ms. Jyotna and Dr. Kasim will bring all these things in a platform by which you will go through this. So let us have fun with matrix on this platform Swam. Thank you very much. So after that we just go for the next where we have introduced the history aspect and then we have also taken an example from the Mahabharata episode which is of B. R. Chopra episode 82 and we have given the clip reference. We can play the video but as instructed by Uday that we have given in the time frame that you should watch this where the Garur view is going to change to Chakra view under the certain transformation. So that link we have also given and then this is the Chakra view means you can see this use totally the entire concept of the matrix and if you know from where the inter so that aspect if you are very familiar you can inter otherwise only Abhimanyu was knowing and Krishna and Pradyumna at that time. So this is the situation which is from the ancient time we are using. Then in the next we arrange the quizzes for this also and then you can have this. So this is the aspect that we wanted to learn how to introduce the things at each an individual level and they were inserting at their own. It was not that someone is helping and but of course I should thankful to Brinda all the time I was asking her how to do this but anyway. So this is the simple aspect we have defined the matrix and then we took this mobile device to record the video and put it on the matrix addition and subtraction also. So this part also we have added and given. So can we play that video? So this is what the hand you are seeing is Maywin and the pad whatever you are seeing is given by the IIT the same logo you can see. So it is on the A11. Yeah, second using the mobile. In the lab yesterday night and I have a colleague who has edited and posted and then finally posted to YouTube and give the link. So that everything whatever the edX platform wants we tried to do this and tried to explain subsequently on that aspect. Yeah, thank you. So again for this we again introduce the quiz aspect. So every section we have put the quiz. And then Sanjeev has introduced the aspect of the matrix types of matrices whatever we are going to use and everything is being demonstrated either by the PDF file or by the video or by the quiz. So every section whenever you go. So you can see this video we have taken from the YouTube so that you can also play. It is a similar thing whatever I was doing earlier but now you can see that it is being played like this. So it is resource from the YouTube that we use. So yeah. So then we go to the next part that we use in the matrix in the encryption and that has been again we have taken a very simple example and he has Mr. Sanjeev has done this and he has explained how it has been done supported by video supported by quiz and for all this thing is what were the platform we have for the now swam. So all these things we have given the example and it was working very fine. Then Dr. Oja used his choreography aspect. So he has also given his own course on the choreography using all those things followed by the video and how it is going to be used. And finally as I said Jocena and Dr. Kashim they arranged it and they were all the time asking me you have to see because you have to tell. So and all the time I was scared that anyway so there are lot of examples means he has also developed example of rotation matrix supported by the video and all those things. So I have no problem means as you said that of course I used to be mess in any of this type of gathering but I used to be the safest person whenever I am going to implement it. So that is why my concern is so thank you very much. Anyway let us give them a big hand. I think they have run well. Thank you so much. So this is the team that we have here and we thought about a topic on supply chain management while we were recording the video and so I had my colleague prepare the video on supply chain management and then we thought about how we go about designing the course. So as far as the platform is concerned we started by looking at the course details about the courses and this is the team that we have. So we added a short description about the course here and we gave a link for a textbook which is an open source textbook on supply chain management here. So in the video itself we added a couple of slides about the concept and how the introduction to the course is all about and then we added some sequence of quizzes and some assignments to make it complete. We had quite of learning from the other teams as well. There were certain things which we were learning. So it was quite interactive in between teams as well. So this is the introduction, a short introduction about what the course is about which is a sequence to the video which we have. Welcome everybody. Can we have the volume please? We will be talking about introduction to supply chain management. Now we have been hearing a lot about supply chains these days but what is supply chain management? Now 20 years back, 20 or 30 years back you had individual firms competing with other individual firms but nowadays you will see supply chains of firms competing with supply chains of other competing firms. So let us look at the definition of supply chain management. So supply chain management can be thought about as a set of approaches or processes that is used to efficiently integrate your suppliers, your manufacturers, your distributors, your retailers and finally your customer. And in any supply chain that you take, there would be mainly two tradeoffs. One is you have to minimize the system-wide cost and at the same time you have to maximize your customer service level. Now many times people use supply chain management and logistics management interchangeably but the question is are they synonymous? I would say logistics management is just a part of supply chain management. So what is logistics management? Logistics management talks about the storage and transfer or distribution of materials within a supply chain whereas supply chain management as a whole is much more strategic. So there you talk about supplier selection, vendor selection criteria, you talk about supplier contracts so that is more strategic in nature. Whereas logistics management is just a sub part of supply chain management. So as you can see in the slide. We did some changes and we integrated. Logistics is concerned with the movement. And this is a small video to illustrate the concept life for a real company. It is a video on Walmart which we took from the open source. Then we have a set of multiple choice questions which we have built in for the students and we added some details with regard to the course scheduling and we added some also details with regard to the grading that we have decided on the course for them. So that is what we had. Thank you. I must admit that when I designed this short workshop I was in a dilemma because you will clearly agree that if you have to do a comprehensive study of all features and how to use them you would require first of all a very methodically defining a whole lot of content pre-created, license plan and five full days of activities minimally what is required. But we did not have the luxury. So in three days I thought the best is to try out the Bhaktisma by fire and jump into the ocean and since this is a very peculiar ocean in which we will never drown, we will remain alive always and I thought making it interesting by breaking people into. So do you agree that the purpose or the objective is achieved? That now we appreciate that in fact I am so encouraged by this that even in any workshop that I will plan in actual workshop also I will try to do this by giving some sessions where they just play around in small groups and once they are comfortable then they go through the lobby. Coming back to more serious business EDX actually has a methodology because EDX is a company as I mentioned yesterday so they have a methodology of selecting partners which are university. So here the methodology was just the ministry wrote to vice chancellor's, vice chancellor's passed that paper to someone and someone and that is the reason why we got a feeling that the whole thing is sort of imposed from the top. In real world this is not the kind of thing that would happen when I will start executing the larger project extending this concept I will be actually writing to university vice chancellor's and several key people in those universities asking them to consider joining this it has to come from within. This is another aspect and this is what I have learnt from EDX apart from the universities they actually go out and contact the best known teachers directly. Would you like to give a course? Would you like to give a course? Because the whole idea is to give the best to the students and as you know currently there is no recognition of the credits that is going to happen in the university neither here nor in United States nor in Europe it will take some time. So currently all that is happening is essentially a supplement to whatever students are studying. As I mentioned the drop out rates are talked about that only 10 percent, 15 percent finished but as professor Gaitonde said it is not that the drop out is linear throughout the course the large number of people registered but on day one itself a large number of them drop out. So it is not that they have seen something they feel it is not good enough and then they drop out but they drop out right at the beginning. So to begin with the course starts with 20 to 25 percent people who register and still 10 to 12 percent finish. So the gradient is it is no different from when I start the semester my class is full with 500 people. When I end the semester the class has typically 50-60 students it is no different than that and yet they learn something on their own they give exams whatever whatever what. So fundamentally I am not worried about the so called drop out rate and so on. Plus statistics say that if only 10 percent of 1 lakh registered students finish then that number is still 10,000 which is larger than what we can achieve. I mean no teacher who is teaching best course will get an opportunity to address 10,000 students who actually complete that. These are the positive side. Now I have given you the printouts of the EDX material. There are four documents there. Now they talk about onboarding a new partner onboarding NS. There is a lot of American terminology which will translate into our British English. Onboarding means getting a new partner comfortable and arranging dialogue with that partner and helping that partner to identify courses etc etc. All subsequent documents describe how do you provide I think that it should be here somewhere. So if you see this there is a quick start guide. There is a university onboarding guide. There is a tactical course selection guide and there is a guide to planning MOOC portfolio. I would like to inform you that this is all EDX copyright material and that is the reason why I am not marking soft copies to you. But I have got permission from EDX to use this material for training purposes and I will be using this material for this only one more workshop. We had actually planned when our platform development project was approved we had planned to conduct workshops and a component of that planning was to create similar documents for Indian environment. We will all agree that it has to be done every new university, within the university every new teacher every new course etc. We had planned to release this sometime in November or December when we would have run the first workshop. Unfortunately as I said for the first time in my life events are overtaking me. I usually try to run ahead of events but this time the government is too fast which is a good problem to have but that is the reason why we have this document. My humble request to you is that you will of course carry these documents with you they are meant to be given to you so that is all legal. But if any one of you can think about making some modifications to these documents so that they become relevant and useful to us that would be a very useful and important contribution. You see unless I use crowd sourcing to the hilt this will not take off with the same speed that we want. So you would like as many people to contribute as possible. We will of course be putting up our team but you will agree that next day workshop when we conduct earlier than later we should be having our own documents which I could not give the name Swayam of course still it will be announced but it will be like this and these similar documents will be prepared. Now are there any additional documents you think that should be prepared for circulation. So when we are for example downloading something and trying to upload it on the Swayam site the HTML tags which are there and which I am really thankful to Vrindan and Urmila for helping us out on and on again. So based on their experience if the sequencing can be kind of made it in a soft copy in a documented form that would be really helpful. I just wanted to add here is that actually we will be having the technical support team you know so they will know these HTML tags and how to do the image and so that's what I was saying the problem is at times we have to oversee the technical team as well because the ultimate accountability rests with whoever is leading. That is agreeable I will tell you I teach HTML by the way as a part of introductory course in programming but when I need something I go back to Vrindan The fact of life is that we may get introduced to this we may have a manual or something like that but the speed with which we will be able to do things will be one-tenth of the speed of a technical expert and it is not worth your time to spend on that activity. Until we get the technical expert oh you can hire an HTML expert just outside your campus within 24 hours absolutely HTML experts are most easy to get don't look for programmers with B degree and so on they will in fact turn out to be like me lousy HTML program but you get college students who have done some HTML thing BCA bachelor of computer application students with little training they will turn out to be good Sir I have one suggestion for this why can't we use a dream viewer or front page as a interface instead of troubling with HTML and all these things the problem will be solved because senior not be worried about HTML and all those things if it can be integrated with this that will be great Sir let me tell you something just as you mentioned this for last six months we have been generating a whole lot of requirements that need to be integrated this is not the only thing because the idea is to make life as simple as possible the point is that 250,000 lines of code testing upon a million lines of another open source code you make one semicolon change somewhere and you have to go through a grill of 10 days of minimum testing of the whole thing now that is what by the way so let me share with you the plan that I had proposed and it was approved the plan was that after the project is approved in six months I will release the first beta version with some glimpses of the modified functionality that is required for Indian usage and the first release was to happen by March end as I said before that project was even approved formally we have not yet received my money for that project but we received a deal later saying the project is approved money will come however please start project activities with whatever money you have exactly like what the J has told all of your vice chancellor whatever money you have you start using it money will come so with this kind of speed we are unable to do it we took one very concrete decision it may not be very useful right now but that decision is we have by the way two or three modified versions of this platform working in IIT itself as I said we are using a modified version for the blend end move but we said we will not take chances if you launch the site and if there are two lakh students who register they must not get any glitch in their operation so it is a conscious decision that will not modify any platform feature at all it is a very conscious decision we will keep all these requirements we are piling up these requirements and your input is quite valuable it will get recorded of course but do send a mail to us this is a request to all of you you have played around with it you have only a preliminary introduction but over the next few days you and your colleague will actually do things every time you notice that this could be better or that could be better do make it a point to send an email we are going to compile all such requirements then of course we will prioritize them and then we will be implementing our priority for this time was to try and give a Hindi version of the website so that after all it is an Indian site so English and Hindi minimum too the second objective was to provide for a language choice so that I can choose Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu anything tomorrow we are also insisting that some of our courses which are ready are actually translated in Hindi so the voice over in Hindi is recorded for some of our lectures initial lectures as we speak we are also adding Hindi explanation instead of English explanation trying to give a dual field for a course that this course is available to both English speaking students as well as Hindi speaking eventually we would like as I mentioned there is a provision in the proposal that some of the more popular courses particularly those meant for entry level students or high school students should be available in all Indian languages and that will eventually happen now the pages that you have got this is the kind of activity that has to happen I want to particularly draw your attention to one important activity and that is filling up of the information about your university and about the courses this is the most important form that you would have to fill up and submit so this is the form or procedure for registration of a university or institute with the swam platform basically this is a fairly elaborate document a colleague of mine has actually translated it in Hindi just for the sake of form so now you look at it this way take for example seal logo or brand now this seal logo or brand is not a printed thing that I want I want an attachment and I want an attachment with the RGB vector graphics on transparent background is preferred because this is what will go into your site so in fact all that we need from you is the basic information about university information about courses, lead faculty and the information about university should be at multiple levels so there will be a if you go to edx site you will see how a university looks like so there is a photograph describing that university there is some write up about that university exactly what you have played with now how you would like your course and your university to be seen by millions of people so for that this has been created this is fairly elaborate and let me tell you it would take even if you have all these assets available selecting and putting them together would take a minimum of one full day so there will be logo somewhere in the university there will be a nice picture that you would like to reprint whatever whatever the course teachers collecting teachers photograph thanks to the technology it is so easy to do that now but it has to be done and the logistics usually takes some time so while I agree that supply chain management is a bigger dadabhai of logistics management but unless logistics is managed properly supply chain cannot be managed that you will agree right so here we are trying to ensure that you go back and manage the logistics so for every new course for example the name of the university starting date end date which will be roughly number of weeks that you would like to run course for estimated time commitment per week is the time commitment that you expect from the student who does this so it could be 5 hours a week 8 hours a week 3 hours a week depends on how fast pace or slow pace you would like that course to be the course faculty names titles faculty photos a small biography text if there is any effect you about that course so you may want to anticipate what questions will occur in students mind about a course and you may want to give that there are there is a contact person from the university which is required which for all purposes shall be the coordinator named by the universe so edx calls it program manager so like Kalpana is our program manager here each coordinator is a pro but coordinator is a better name in our environment so we will use the name coordinate from our side we will be coordinating the law eventually we will be assigning as the numbers increase we will be having a team of coordinators so one coordinator for say 4 or 5 universities and so on now this is different this is what is the institute contact information if for example if there is a question about the course content because you see each course that you submit you create that course and you prepare that course that course needs to be reviewed by IIT Bombay minimally for the following thing today it is IIT Bombay tomorrow it will be a section 8 company or day after tomorrow government or whatever it is the idea is like this while you will take all your precaution to ensure that the course contents are free of intellectual property right violations there is a prudent requirement that it should be done independently as well so in case there are any questions about any particular course content then there has to be a person at your end who need not be the lead faculty or faculty member but could be somebody else or who could be one of the faculty member but once that name is given that means apart from designing the course and delivering the course suppose I am the faculty and also named here I have a additional responsibility to immediately respond to queries that come from the from the central place if it says for example we believe that this particular page that you have put there is actually part of some book or paper published there and we would like you to change it immediately now that change cannot happen after Dasbara day it has to like happen immediately if that portion has been made public so this kind of query can come anytime during the execution of the course and even during the design of the course if the design is well done ahead of time for the first set of courses I think there will be mara mara maybe a few weeks of course material will be ready from each one even when you put the due date 4 months ahead there will always be something that is happening so it will be a dynamic thing and that is why this person becomes more involved now here the categories see these categories are hard coded hard coded meaning there is a list in the data way so you cannot add a category by simply giving a course or giving a name so what will be required there is no code change that is required but once you give suppose you suggest a subject for which there is no listed category here then you will suggest a category and we will incorporate that category in the list of categories because these categories are also seen by students right up front in fact they can choose from the university any course that they wish to register so here are some examples given for example so they issued main banner image so this is our banner image this is our logo this is a separate logo which is 200 by 101 pixels width and height for the home page carousel we give the logo in another site this is a third site which is a private page logo image which will come somewhere else so the course home page we would expect you to design a graphic it would be designed of course by it could be decided by the lead faculty members in that faculty group but it is useful to have such a design because this will appear on the list of courses right up the front page so this is for example a design which was done by for professor Gayathondes course the course listing image that okay course page which will appear on the course itself when you go this is the page which is smaller size which will appear in the listing when you list all the course there is a course description page image where you would like to give something there is a introductory video you are all familiar with this thing faculty photographs and then just to help your coordinator to ensure that the participating teachers have given all the information there is a checklist this is a actually a standard military or government procedure that when you have to submit 10 documents there is a checklist which you keep ticking that you have that document you have that asset so that something is not missed out sorry for being very elaborate but we thought that it is best because we would not have time to interact with emails saying it is perfectly possible that in the first instance when you send everything once something remains please don't wait send those with a cross mark here but also announce that this will come within next 10 hours or 24 hours or whatever we are actually running against time that is the problem this code number should be typically the code number for a subject that you give in your own university in the global edx context there was always a doubt whether the university could give the same course title for global consumption there could be issues about whether that course can be given by that university has seen it approved it whatever whatever these questions will arise here also what edx has done is they have decided that because they ultimately want actual university courses only to be offered so they attach the word a letter x called extended so that means the course is same so for example our course is yes 11.1x ME 209x IIT Bombay itself is participating as IIT Bombay x which is IIT Bombay's extension service because for example when a student does a honor code certificate for any one of our courses the certificate will be issued on the authority of our distance education program the center for education or it will be signed by the faculty members who teach that course so university is sort of endorsing it but sort of keeping it away so university is not saying that this certificate entitles you to get any credits in my university or anywhere else but university is saying yes so the course which we offer to our student is being offered it is not very clear to me whether we should say a course x or we just call the course as is any opinions on that on this issue of continuing with the .x provision for the launching the courses I think this is a good idea because in university system if you want to launch a course we have to get it approved from the board of management academic council which is a long process so probably if x provision is there then it becomes simpler to by the way I don't know whether you realize or not but all of us today are taking decisions on behalf of the nation there is no cross check here I don't need permission from the government now whether we should do it or not because there is no time and you know in your own processes if you ask for permission how long it is for the deliberation and to decide whether permission is given on all my life I have worked in a style in which I am working now seek apologies later if required but never ask for permission take a decision in good faith if it is taken and if it is sensible to a large number of your colleagues is the correct this so we record this that this is the decision taken by this body it should be just there what she is saying is that it is cs101x currently so it should be cs101s so there should be no dot because the dot would be used later if you want to break a course or if you want to create versions of the course then we would use that dot later so is it alright typically couple of you tell me how are the courses coded in your papers code numbers how they are given any example if we are offering in BSE honors course then it is course something like B B stands for bachelor B stands for physics H stands for honors so BPH 301T or 601T so 6 corresponds to the semester yeah so something very similar will be there in most places so do we then agree that we will simply add another capital S to any number that we have that the BHE example talks about a very long kind of nomenclature should we not restrict it to 3-4 characters or something I am not comfortable with that because I want students to identify with that course which is offered in BHE if I change the course title or course number then I will not be conveying the right spirit to the student what I am trying to tell somebody in Kanyakumari is that when you register for this course you will get to learn exactly what my BHE student gets to learn in March that I will be able to convey only if I say BBE whatever whatever from BHE there might be a small problem in some cases because say the 5 IITs have similar master's degrees or BTECH degrees and they might have similar coatings so differentiating between a course offered by say ISR Pune versus ISR Kalkata for example there is a CS 101 at multiple places so there are courses like that in multiple in almost all platforms which have exactly the same code number but please remember that a course is also identified by the university which offers so as long as both tags are there it works the best of my knowledge ISR would not offer two courses with the same code not the same ISR but two different ISRs could in future so ISR Pune, ISR Mohali perfectly fine so currently we will go by that by this so this is a decision I am going to just convey to the ministry that this is a decision we have taken also I mentioned that whether you people like it or not you actually become the first set of members of a loose consortium the consortium has not yet been formally formed new people will come in over the years some people may go out if they are inactive so it is not a permanent representation just because of a historical accident but because we all commit to continue to work and contribute so over a period of time we will develop our own rules and regulations and once there is a consortium that body will actually develop its rules and regulations it is not uncommon to have fairly senior people representing the university to represent the university on such a consortium so for example many institutions or universities abroad have dean of distance learning or a position like we have our deputy director so such people actually would represent the university in consortium meeting typically they travel in pairs the dean or deputy director along with the coordinator quite often in consortium meetings you also have an associated event where latest developments on the platform etc are also discussed so usually 3 to 4 people a university may travel together I propose that we shall have regularly at least one annual consortium meeting of this kind and there could be 2 events per year at least in the first year it is for this purpose that I have allocated a reasonable travel budget to every university so I will just take 4 more minutes to just tell you about the budgets that we have proposed I have the authority of the joint secretary to inform you that this is a commitment that the government is making how long it will take to sanction our project and whether the money will be routed through IIT Bombay or it will be directly given that is the thing that they will decide I have already told you that the equipment budget is 2 crore rupees 50 lakh rupees is the budget for the video equipment and the video editing desktops etc that you saw so actually that video team will also accommodate people who will do transcription, transcription synchronization etc so I would expect a couple of video people one camera person, one video person one video editor to be there I would expect the equivalent of Brinda and Urmila and 2 or 3 people like that I would expect some other technical and etc etc I remember the numbers by heart so I will tell you that there was only one suggestion that was made yesterday that in some places the power supply situation is very poor and even if you have a battery which should ordinarily support the infrastructure because it is very not very big and 40 KVA is a fairly good UPS in the support but there was a suggestion that we should provide for a diesel generator now my own feeling is that there was also simultaneously suggestion that the procurement of major equipment if it could be done centrally it could both speed up the process and it could help reduce the price we had some informal discussions amongst ourselves and what we felt at least I was more concerned about that is that unless IIT has developed some cloning technology we cannot get Brinda and them all over so how best is that let us have also a centralized uniform place where the staff are recruited and trained and so that we get team which is fairly good in quality partly right recruitment cannot be done centrally you see recruitment the recruited people have to owe allegiance to you if they are recruited centrally they will owe allegiance to central place not to you you have to interview them you have to select them but we will provide extensive training we will provide extensive training to all your technical staff whether it is video staff whether it is technical staff like and absolutely have no doubt about it that they will be trained by their real experts not by faculty members so Brinda and Urmila and others will train them on those aspects Sajjan and his team will train them on the video aspect so you know the famous saying jeno kaam teno thaay bija kare toh gotak hai if I try to train somebody on transcription or subunit mere sar abhi gotak hai so the recruitment we have defined 5 categories of people we have defined average salary say for example the senior most person is pegged at 60,000 to 75,000 rupees per month the junior most person is pegged at 15,000 to 25,000 rupees per month these are consolidated salary these are temporary appointments typically we recruit for 9 days immediately within one day we can make that appointment after an interview if you find a person if you advertise which is the normal procedure we have to appoint people for a one year duration we have to advertise that cycle typically takes one and half month but in one and half month to two months you can recruit people for one year but you can recruit some staff immediately the salary budget total is about 1 crore rupees per year per node that is the budget we have I have also one more suggestion sorry it means the person whatever you have categorized in 5 categories so what are the qualifications so you must have fixed that so we have a set of categories defined set of nomenclatures defined for different types of people but of the same rank what would be the nomenclature etc we have defined the typical qualifications and experience and we have defined the range of salary so that thing is available it is a standard DRND document circulated to all sponsored projects you may have your own rules but you can definitely use this and say that this is what has been recommended by IIT Bombay as being used in IIT Bombay so you are most welcome sir I want to make a point related to this issue particularly within the universities you said there are two options to fund this project either through IIT or maybe directly the funds may be allocated to the university but if it is given to the university there are again two options maybe in the form of a project or as a central budget grant of the university if it is part of central budget grant then it becomes very difficult to operate it independently so the project has to be implemented at sub project level within the universities also I would be not comfortable with the money going into the university grant and then getting operated through the best of my knowledge it will not work properly I don't know what your opinion is the best bet is to run it under project mode the way we handle it is because we have handled projects where we have three or four university partners some of them are regular universities some of them are institutions like IIT Bombay what happens is that the project is approved to IIT Bombay the money on a annual this thing is released to IIT Bombay within few days we release that money to the principal investigator named for that project in that university there are requirements of national administration and funds are released an account has to be open for that project the account has to be always examined through the equivalent of CAG or audited expenditure has to be as per GFR now these are natural rules for all of you but you have tremendous autonomy in controlling those funds rather than they disappearing in some central thing that is at least our experience and I would suggest that that is the best way so what we do we transfer that money and all that you have to do is you have to keep submitting accounts on the regular interval that MHRD asked so we have to give utilization certificate at the end and for partner institutions they have to submit us the details of the expenditure that they have we generally do not ask any questions about why you have paid this salary to that person or something that is yours I will tell you what are the problems with money let me just complete the grant here so salary for about 20 staff is 100 lakhs mini cloud is about 150 lakhs and I will see that by appropriate negotiations we can get even a digital generator state wherever it is required the MOOCs course creation lab is 50 lakhs there is a consumable budget an annual budget of 10 lakh rupees I have seen people struggling to get you know even a ream of white paper for zeroxing as small thing as that you must be completely independent of such thing there is a travel budget of 5 lakh rupees per year this 5 lakh rupees per year travel budget is for you and your team members to attend the consortium meeting this is not for sending your people for training programs to IIT the training program travel budget is separately covered by IIT Bomb so I have tried to be as reasonably liberal as is possible within the presence of the ministry so that your hands are not tied there is a contingency budget of rupees 5 lakh per year this contingency is at the discretion of the PIS we need to have some very good internet connection and for that we need to identify vendor and I think it could be that if you at a central level what I have been promised is that the IIT Bombay NKN connection is being upgraded to 10 GBPS precisely for supporting this and those universities which are participating in this will get a 1 GBPS link from NKN what I suggest is that we need to have an independent of because these network don't work often I think to run it successfully because it's an online kind of a situation all the time and lot of time things don't work highly unlikely that the government will approve an independent network provision please note that in my entire project budget there is no budget for the national cloud that is required and there is no budget for the bandwidth the proposal just mentions how it will be executed please also understand that you in fact would not require a humongous bandwidth the students who are participating in the program and attending the classes or attending online courses they will attend from wherever they are you require a bandwidth to reach in a definitive fashion to the cloud whether it is in IIT or in Delhi and you do not require a huge bandwidth for that so that's what I wanted to clarify the course will not be shown or delivered from your university the courses will come to a central cloud point whether that is IIT Bombay now or the enemy ICT cloud later so you don't need that kind of what you need bandwidth for as professor is saying is to move everything over here or to interact with this place or something that is for your testing and development that is for your own testing and that is for offering courses to your own students on the campus which you will do using local area network in fact the whole idea is that if I have thousand students in my university taking a course then why should they be wasting their internet bandwidth to do that if the course is locally offered so they should be able to do it so this actually the cloud infrastructure I have thought a lot about it I issued a lot of play in the committee they think it is too much of an investment but I told them that I believe that the universities which will participate will gradually move up the ladder and will start doing analytics of the data will also start using it for local books courses and therefore this is one occasion where each participating university should have it so far they seem to be inclined to approve so I think this we can I have the commitment from the joint secretary himself that this budget will be approved but sir existing one GBBS links of NKN in the university like ours and University of Delhi we have got where we have 70 segregated colleges and 54 departments and we have almost 5000 nodes working so that is already being overloaded and at times we do not get desired speed so if we are putting this again then again we have some problems what I can do at best is take this request to the ministry saying that the universities which have overloaded network bandwidth should be provided with additional bandwidth but the decision is beyond the scope of the project for the massive operation because frankly speaking if somebody some auditor like person goes into the details they say how much bandwidth do you need to load the course from there when is the course going to be in November it is loading right now not in 5 seconds it will be done in night what is your problem these are the kind of questions which are likely to be asked if people go into the details of why the bandwidth is being demanded so for this I just do not see additional bandwidth being sanctioned especially to Delhi University whose situation is well known you have private service providers as backup and everything you really do not need any more bandwidth just for this you may need it for all your connectivity not for this the bandwidth is a commodity which is perpetually choked no matter how much you do it is like this space we started with 7.25 megabyte capacity desk today we have a terabyte desk and this disk is as full as that disk was in 1974 so no difference anyway but let us not come again to the budget part being a teacher of economics I will come to again the budget part it is regarding the onrarium to the teachers who will be contributing to the there is a course creation budget of 20 lakh rupees for one course for one course it is video clips, transcription synchronization online quizzes, tests, practice problem hand out, course material everything that is created the payment norms will be we will be circulating the payment norms which are approved here even here we are trying to get norms approved because nobody had done any kind of you see we have a peculiar problem we have Kannan and I do not take a single-paisa onrarium from any MHRD project for any activity that is just to show our commitment however normal people need to be respected for the time that they spent and the onrarium has to be given now when other faculty members will start taking courses the question will come we have a regular definition of this onrarium it is typically based on the estimate of the amount of time that the teachers have to spend but the onrarium I believe is fairly sumptuous it is typically I think 2 lakh rupees for faculty member for a course of one semester duration additional money to be paid to teaching assistants and others employed by that teacher to support that person etc please note that there is an overriding clause in the national mission thing that any onrarium paid to an individual cannot exceed 20% of the annual salary of that person cap of 3 months of salary this is the stupidest ever rule I have seen but this rule prevails we had similar rules for example consultancy earning could not be greater than the annual salary of a professor in IIT Bombay for decades this was the rule when I was on the IRCC I argued that suppose a company wishes to pay 1 crore rupees per day for a faculty member's time what is your problem you will get a larger chunk for that faculty time you decide how much time a faculty member should spend that is decided by the institute norm which says every faculty member can spend one day a week on consulting how much that day should cost should be decided by the market forces you are an economic professor so you would know that fortunately IIT Bombay like other IITs have made that now there is no upper cap but government funding and government onrarium has such what we have tried to do therefore is that to operate within the cap but to make the life of the teacher and the group of teachers comfortable we are saying there is money but please use that money to hire assistants pay to your students pay to others and get them to continue however the onrarium is not very unreasonable is what I would say yeah the thing is that yesterday we had to talk about procurement so you said that you are considering that very seriously because each individual have a lot of rate tapes and bottlenecks in procurement like an open tender which can drag on up to it has to be floated on the website on the newspapers so it can drag simple purchases and appointments also it particularly purchases of hardware can drag to 3-4 months so since we have to kickstart this program it will be back initially at least to do some sort of a central procurement ask the vendor to go and install the equipment and once we are satisfied the guy over there on the faculty will find out we have done that kind of thing earlier and we plan to do that that was a session made earlier and we will be doing that it's not a problem I think we should bring