 Good afternoon. Yeah, it is 2.30. We are starting the afternoon session. We would like to invite Dr. Jagdish Arora, Director in FlipNet, who coordinates the library, journal, acquisition, and dissemination work. And as before, we will not introduce anybody else. We will not give much introduction. Good afternoon to you. So, I am from an organization called Information and Library Network. What we basically do is provide access to e-resources to universities and colleges, and my presentation is on that. Next, please. Well, when we started giving e-resources to the university, we realized that universities do not have internet connection. So, the first program was to provide them connectivity. Of course, this has now been winded up because all universities are part of NK and they are getting NK connectivity. The money that we had for providing internet connectivity is now being used for providing better internet facilities or rather better land facilities within the campus. Next, please. As far as access to e-resources is concerned, we have two programs. One is UGC Infinite Digital Library Consortium, and another is NGC. UGC Infinite Digital Library Consortium is for universities, and we provide about 7,000 electronic journals and about 11 bibliographic databases to universities. There are about 204, 208 universities that are eligible. They are basically 12B universities funded by UGC and government, so they are eligible and they get access to it. NLIST was a project funded by NMEI City, where we provided access to 5,000 electronic journals and 97,000 e-books to colleges. Until last, they have about 3,200 colleges that have registered. The program, the formal funding from NMEI City is stopped, but we have made plans how to carry it forward. Next, please. As far as UGC Infinite is concerned, we have, like I mentioned, the UGC provides funds for giving access to e-resources to about 200 universities, but we also have what we call associate membership program, where these resources can be subscribed by private universities and other institutions. Other institutions may also include IITs and NITs who wanted to subscribe some of the resources that we give to them. So, we have associate membership program. About 210 associate members are getting benefit from this. Next, please. These associate members pay their own subscription. The rates that we have negotiated is applicable, but they pay their own subscription. So, UGC Infinite has about 1,000 journals, 29 publishers, and it is across almost all big publishers that one can think of, commercial, academic, societies, university classes, and bibliographic databases like SciFinders, Scholar, MathSciNet, and WebOpsets. Next, please. We maintain a website, comprehensive website with tutorials on every aspect. In fact, it is inspired from Professor Kannon. We also have a spoken tutorial on the usage of e-resources. Next, please. Usage, data harvesting and data analysis. In the morning also, next, please. It was being mentioned as to what are the usage, who are using it, and what are the impact. So, we have done those studies where we have an interface where the usage is automatically downloaded from the publisher's website. There is a standard called counter. All publishers maintain their statistics using counter standard, and this is what we call Shushi client. It is another protocol which automatically harvest data and present it. Next, please. Once you are logged in, as a university, you would be able to see how you have used it. Next, how and this kind of plots come automatically. So, any university can look at the resources they have used and how they have used various resources. Next, please. This is for a university. In general, how they have used various resources. Next, one can see the usage journal-wise also. In fact, ACS, they have 40 journals. How these 40 journals are used across this period is also a bit different. Next, another statistic. We have also worked out, every time you go to a funding agency, they ask how we have been using, what is the cost recovery factor, what is the download rate. So, these things we maintain. Thanks to the implicit increase rate, this is done automatically. Cost incurred, cost recovered is basically what we try to do is that every article that you download costs some money. On average, about $15 is cost. So, if you multiply total number of downloads by $15, and compare it what money you have spent, we have seen that we have recovered cost almost enough. Next. We have also seen that the productivity of universities in terms of number of articles authored by universities have increased drastically. See, in 2005, the consortium started in 2004. So, from 2005 onwards, this is increased. That increase is about 76 percent. And another interesting practice that there is a very strong and positive correlation between number of articles a university downloads and number of articles that they produce. So, more the number of downloads, more is the number of articles that they produce. And the correlation coefficient is 0.65. Next. The endless program funded by enemy ICT. Next. So, again we give a subset of what we give it to universities is given to the endless. So, basically subset all scholarly journals. Besides, we also gave books to them. Books are purchased or one-time purchase basis. So, that means that even if the program stops now, we will have books to offer to the users because they have purchase on one-time payment basis. Next. This is a usage cost recovery and all those factors we have worked like we did per unit infinite. Next. The average cost in case of journal is as low as 5.97 rupees and case books it is 1.24 rupees per book per quality. Next. The endless was given three awards 2010 E-India, Manthan and stock digital inclusion award. We have also done as to how these universities have performed. So, various statistical analysis has been done. If you can say publication output. How they have their publication output about nine field of area is given. Then how are they compound annual growth and next. And how do they compare with the word data. This data has been done for every 50 universities or rather all of the 50 universities. Next. Then how is the relative specialization index in various fields about nine fields we have taken. Next. This data is available for all the 50 universities and what is their impact in terms of edge factor and in terms of the citations that their publications have. Next. If you look, if you rank the university about the edge factor you can see how they rank edge factor wise. This study was done for 50 universities. Next. And how they have done in different fields like University of Hyderabad is on top then physical sciences Punjabi University is on top. So we have done this study for about 50 universities that are getting access to all the resources at the university. So for different fields we have done that. Next. Nine fields we have done this study. Next. Now what has happened is that over the year that a location given to the consortium is coming down. Like for example, industry where they provide some funds under non-plan. In fact, HRD has three consortiums. One is UGC Infinite that we are running from in crib net for university. Another is N list which is for colleges and yet another is INDEST which is for technical institution. So money has been coming down and then a number of institutions are increasing. Looking at that HRD had appointed a committee and after lot of reiterations we decided there should be a separate fund for this consortium in city. This was cheers consortium for higher education electronic resources. The money has now been allocated. So there would not be any problem in years to come especially to this technical institution where the number of technical institutions have increased and the money was static. Now according to the demand this would look after all the consortium. All the three consortium would be having one single negotiation that would mean that rates would also come down. Next we also have certain open accessive initiative in in crib net while the UGC Infinite and N list is a cost involved. In open access whatever content we have is open to everybody one can look at them and use them. So Chodh Ganga is one of the content. Next Chodh Ganga we host electronic pieces the full text of electronic pieces into the repository called Chodh Ganga. Right now it has almost 14,000 pieces are there. We will be reaching 15,000 very shortly and this again was given India award. Number of university who has signed MOU is about 157. So that is increasing. In fact there is a mandate of UGC that every university must sign and deposit their thesis into Chodh Ganga repository. So this is accessible to everybody openly. We also give free benefits to university who signed with us. One benefit is they get access to anti plagiarism package. The second is they get they get funds for setting up a ETD lab where the ETD labs are set up and they can the students are encouraged to create multimedia and put up with their thesis. And yet another benefit is in terms of money for digitizing back volumes of pieces. So every university will sign getting funds for digitizing 5 years of their back volumes. Chodh Ganga 3 is a companion to Chodh Ganga where approved thesis are being submitted to Chodh Ganga. Next slide. We also offer a platform where faculty from universities can put their open access journals. Right now they have 14 journals are available. They are all available in open access. Infoport is another initiative. While there are several initiatives where the catalog free internet resources we restrict it only to Indian thesis or rather e-resources that are originated in India. They are all available through this portal. We are working on access management system. Most of the e-resources in universities and institutions are IP access space. If you are in the university campus, you can access them. If you are not, you won't be able to do it. We are working on this open source initiative that would allow off campus access to people. We have started in a minor way. In fact, there are more than 5 lakhs of users that are already. So they have their individual login and password using this technology. Next slide. We also have a union catalog of about 150 universities having more than 1 crore, 25 lakhs records. Again, these are freely available and libraries can download the record. They buy a new book and it is available here. They can download the records and put it in their local library management system. Next. We have signed up with Google and these books would shortly be available through Google. This is Soul Software. I won't touch your phone. And we provide training programs on various aspects of information technology and analysis of information. We have also done some projects for UGC. UGC's website is maintained by us. Next. And they have these programs. They have basically these scholarships and fellowships. They are all monitored by us. Computer interfaces for them. That's it. EPG Partiala is another project that we have. We are creating content for about 77 subjects. 50 contents creation in 50 subjects of all these topics. More than 500 modules are available. Thank you. That's it. Thanks for patience. Before I request President Karnan to start describing the projects that are happening here, I have pleasure in inviting Dr. Anand to share in just five minutes, very briefly, the massive activities that Microsoft research has been doing here. I thought it would add value to understand a very fairly giant step by Microsoft. Thank you, Professor Fartek. This is about a project I think it was mentioned a couple of times earlier called Massively Empowered Classrooms. It's an experiment that we have been doing on the use of these kind of technologies in a blended model. My colleague, Siddharth, actually has been doing all the work and so he'll give you a little insight into the project. You have five minutes. Thanks, Anand. We work at Microsoft Research and interestingly, all the problems we've been discussing since morning is something a lot of scientists and researchers in the lab have also been thinking about for the last two years. We figured out that all the problems we've been discussing since morning, what can technology do in bits and pieces to actually go ahead and address at least whatever is possible as of today. This is an experiment we've been doing. We started the first pilot in January last year and since there onwards we have actually taken a lot of feedback and come back and made some changes here and there, added some new features to actually go and address small, small things. It's basically a blended model that tries to give a role to the local faculty, have something that interests students as well as something for the college management at all levels. I'll not spend a lot of time on all of these slides because we also have a demo, so I'll just give you a quick overview so that you can come to the stall and see the real demo. In a nutshell, MEC provides content that is developed in alignment to whatever we discuss in the morning, short videos of 9 minutes to 15 minutes to 20 minutes, videos which are very slow paced, videos which are focused at addressing the local curriculum that universities follow and all of this content is actually available for local faculty also to use. So if for example, you are from an Affiliating University Institute, what you will get is some content that is developed by professors from IITs and various other community efforts that we've done and as local professors you would be able to actually go create your own content and add your own content on top of that. What students will be able to do is leverage the content that comes from the community as well as go ahead and leverage the content that you will learn. Some features at a glance. As I said, the content that's available on MEC is designed in such a way that it aligns to the curriculum that you prescribe for colleges in your Affiliating University. So as of now we've actually partnered with some universities which I'll come to later. So what we have done is created university universities on the website and each college which is part of that university is listed there. So if you are a student, the student goes to the website, selects his college, enrolls for the course, the current course that we have is on design and analysis of algorithms. Right now we just have one course where the student goes and selects that course. He gets all the content as I said and a lot of local teachers from those institutes which are affiliating to that university have been adding content that their students have been using. So far as I said we started this last January and the site that we have today is completely different from what we had a year and a half ago. Primarily based on the feedback that we got from different colleges. The first pilot we did was the VTU in Bangalore, Visvisaria Technological University and it was a relatively small scale pilot because we were also learning when we came out with the project and we created some content, gave it out. But we had some very interesting findings so if you know just going back to the presentations we saw in the morning, we saw we heard a lot about MOOCs and enrollment numbers and engagement numbers but what we essentially observed through MEK is something very interesting. More than 17 percent students who participated in the pilot actually sustained the entire six month engagement. Now essentially this means that if content is appealing to students if it's aligned to their curriculum and the quizzes are actually in sync with the exams that they take in class, the retention and their level of interest is way higher as compared to probably a course which is not really really aligned to what they do. So based on those learnings we extended our pilot, we went to other universities we pilot, we actually partnered with G2, in fact Professor Akshay is sitting right here we met him and through his support, his office support we rolled it out for students in Gujarat. We saw very active participation there as well and then we also put this as part of the QEE program that many of your colleges are actually part of so this MOOC is also offered there. The other very interesting learning we had through this MEK as we call it was around incentives. We also figured out with time that not only quality content is what students want they also want an incentive mechanism which is rewarding in the sense that they get some certificates out of what they do as well as some way of gratification in terms of maybe getting an internship opportunity at some organization or getting a project that they can work on in sync with industry and so on and so forth. So based on all of those things as I said we made lot of changes and this is a research experiment where we have tried to blend and merge all of these learnings and so far with each pilot that we do the enrollment numbers are going higher and higher. So strategically we have been actually reaching out to universities because we thought as I said the USP's course and content alignment so we have been reaching out to universities and in this room also there are a lot of vice chancellor as another decision maker so I would encourage all of you to actually come see the demo at the booth and there I can actually show what all you can do as teachers and as an administrator, local faculty as I said can do lot of things that I cannot really talk about. So when you come to the booth I will talk about those things, show you a quick demo and we would love to partner and extend this course to your universities as well. So I finish in time. Except that I would like to suggest that the scale of 3000 5000 is not adequate the first year students every year are 1.25 million in India. Our pilot we are planning from July we don't want to go beyond 1 lakh students but less than 1 lakh students is not an acceptable scale in this country that is a major problem and yet we have to maintain quality at that level but these things are very wonderful. If you have some more details or papers if you could send them we will ensure that it is put up on the website of the conference Incidentally the conference website will remain alive for quite some time and we will also put any interaction mechanism and for you to comment and so on. So now the last part of this particular phase of the conference is a brief description of the exciting national mission projects which are being conducted under the co-ordinatorship of Professor Kannan here. So let me invite Kannan to oh Kannan is already here sorry okay in this session I think there are about 5 people and we are giving 6 plus 1 minute okay for everybody I will begin I am going to talk about the project talk to a teacher and spoken tutorials talk to a teacher I will briefly mention this was done when I was the head of C.D. Padayati Bombay we transmitted 5000 hours of classroom lectures in 100 Kbps in 2006 we came up with transmission methodologies for that some people said that they preferred live transmission because it conveyed pedagogy namely the class started on time and every lecture got delivered all kinds of things ask a question is another thing that we are running electrical engineering department faculty members have been answering questions live 1 hour a week 150 weeks are over been doing and I believe it has a great potential it can go and be useful for several offline kind of educational methods it gives the confidence that when somebody answers you know that an IIT professor is answering so it is possible to scale up it is possible for experts to come from different parts and the students also to come from different parts of the world and participate it is also possible to offer flip classroom through that mode now I will talk about the next topic super con tutorials we created this for IT literacy it is a screen screencast material of 10 minutes 10 minute duration created for self learning you know I can spend 10 minutes to explain why it is suitable but I will skip this we restrict ourselves to open source software so that the students can actually download the software and try them out side by side in fact that method we call as side by side method we believe that it promotes active learning we arrange these tutorials in a sequence I am going to show you this I am here this is our website and I have got few web pages already downloaded let me just check what happens is when I click this this video search it takes me to some site like this and then I can you can see that C programs are all listed in a required order I can actually click this and then play this so it is just a simple screencast no issue I think it is fairly audible there and here is you can see here you can actually pick and choose your first category you can also select a language we dub the spoken part into Indian languages so you can actually click this and so what I have done is in the next page I have selected a PHP and then below each of these we even have the script and so on so if I click this I have already downloaded the in the script you can see we actually create the script first and then record it it gives several advantages for example I can activate this in the I do not know whether we have internet properly basically I can enable that maybe it comes it is coming it allows us to search it allows us to do a lot of things so in our language I believe that this is useful for employment you would have noticed that the video is in English the spoken part is in mother tongue it is helpful for a lot of our children who want jobs in multinational companies but they have difficulty in following English we also give a hundred or even to create so one of the decisions we made in the beginning was to use open source recording software however primitive it might be so we said we would not go for high tech recording software this is one of the most important requirements in our project so in the next slide I will talk about how to use these because this is created for self learning we can organize workshops without domain experts we said our tutorials are of ten minute duration we will conduct workshops only for two hours it provides lots of benefits and somebody has to monitor how much time I have taken it as I mentioned active learning we do not need domain experts we are training large numbers of students and in fact I will show you our page press the wrong button so there are some maps here so if you click this it will take you here by the way this is something I wanted to play so that was Sanskrit so we actually give statistics of people who for example we are in Maharashtra if I click this it tells you how many workshops how many participants and it actually tells you what is happening 25th lots of workshops happened so if you see here you also see lots of workshops that are happening in the near future we have a large web usage as well with about ten minutes of average retention time so given that our spoken tutorials are only about ten minutes duration this is considered pretty good and I have a feedback of 25,000 participants many participants give information quickly go through this quality of instructional material quality of infrastructure in the colleges you can see that quite a few students say it is fair the middle one also has been selected by many people quality of organizer in the college remember we do not have domain expert this is being organized by various places various people we also connect if required and connect through Skype and say hello how are you and so on so it is good or very good the workshop is considered good or very good and extent of applicability of what is learned in self workshops you can see somewhat quite a few people say so as a result I believe that quite a few people join just to get a certificate whether it is useful for them or not and will they recommend this to other people again once again they will likely quite likely definitely we expect to do 10,000 workshops in this year 10,000 workshops because we are doing about 30 to 40 workshops every day it is happening in parallel simultaneously and we have material to to conduct workshops on 20 different topics these are all IT literacy topics and adaptation in academia, HP University in choice based credit system has used it, Anna University for its faculty development has adopted this it has been made mandatory in the labs of 450 plus polytechnic colleges in Tamil Nadu by directed technical education this number is growing in fact I look forward to some more people here to adopt this and we are ready to work with everyone come to the end of my talk the funding we are grateful for get full to NME ICT so I have mentioned Akash it turns out that we also developed an accounting software called ABT Akash business tool for Akash we already have five tutorials basically you screen capture the screen from a laptop anyway spoken tutorial is an effective instructional methodology it can be used to spread open source software it can be used to provide IT literacy and to bridge the digital divide I did not really talk about digital divide it turns out that many of the things that for example we have things on firefox how to write an email and so on but we can also write things about create tutorials on you know how to stand in the queue or you know how does one look for a job or you know things like that many skill based things can easily be made available and we have set up a huge pipeline you put there it will spread all over it also turns out that many of the health related things can be made available why you should boil water and so on and one doctor told me that during childbirth women spend at least two three months at home and they don't do physical work they have they can sit and listen to a lot of things so make this available flood the whole country you can actually make this a developed country that's the reason why I say that it has a potential to make us a developed country it can be used to promote Akash as well and in fact I would like to say spoken tutorials on Akash are weapons of mass instruction we can corporate bomb the whole country with these tools and educate everyone so with that I would like to thank you Professor Jayendran so he is going to talk about FOSI free and open source software in education there are seven people who are partnering this project in fact I am one of the co-investigators in this project delighted to have Jayendran Jayendran is a faculty member in IEUR industrial engineering and operations research go ahead thank you thank you Professor Kannan good afternoon to all so this is another FOSI project which is also under NMEI FITI project Myself Jayendran and other PIs this project is for Sashos Mahajan Sashiva Gopal Krishnan, Pupratik Chakravati Prabhu Ramchandra, Madhu Bailu Manibushan and Professor Kannan they are all based at IIT Bombay so what is this about FOSI see we have been talking about massive online courses and instruction and freeware so one of the other major component is free and open source software that is available the idea being to eliminate use of proprietary software systems in education across India the cost education institutions is limited and number of colleges as we have been seeing in the morning there is lot of colleges where the cost of all these softwares does amount to very very significant amount so if not eliminate at least reduce the use of proprietary commercial softwares by bringing out helpful materials how to use these free and open source software and what softwares can be replaced with these kind of open source software so hope that we hope to help education students have an expense definitely modify softwares to suit different research and academic needs train students to prepare for future careers and also help curb software privacy most of the time we find that students cannot distinguish between illegally downloaded Windows software versus legally available free and open source software from the student point of view it seems like both are the same available for free but you would not even educate them that you have to act to download and play with open source software not true with say word and power point so what do we do so one way to reach so how do we develop the reach to the whole country about using free and open source software so the ways that we have taken up are some of these many more ideas from your side is also welcome and we are also working on some of it first is text book companion why not create codes using the free and open source software for solved examples of standard text books we have a list of all the text books prescribed to ICT along with all the colleges the solved examples are available we can write a code to for example we have a code on say how to do matrix multiplication you can show how to use Sylab to do the matrix multiplication lab migration and the activity you are taking up migrate labs using from commercial softwares to only force only lab support for self-workshops as part of the force initiative we are also developing domain specific spoken tutorials for second and just talked about that which can also be used to conduct the self-workshops support for spoken tutorial forums and conferences so currently these are some of the force tools that we are working on Sylab which is force alternative to MATLAB chemical computation python is also very powerful high-level object oriented programming language so instead of CE Java things like that and oscat this is force alternative orcat this has been completely developed in house at IIT Bombay which can be used for circuit design and PCB design open form this is another three and open source alternative to fluent and computational fluid dynamics after are you know very computationally intensive as well as very expensive ones and this open form is a very good alternative for those kind of system in fact many of the companies themselves are adopting this open form consulting companies as well as big companies are adopting open form so students are exposed to these softwares since they are free now various colleges I am at direct addressing call the vice chancellor here if this can be directly used in your own colleges also increase the employability of the students since they are now exposed to various softwares which can be directly you know increasing their employment opportunity and one other topic is this coin or which is open source software for operating research optimization simulation related applications is this coin or we also have a stall put up so details of various of these initiatives are available there lot of achievements that we have listed till now as we used to connect these live workshop and self workshops the key thing about the text to companions I think 344 text to companions have been created and many more I think similar equivalent equivalent number are in pipeline spoken tutorials contributed course conversion lab migration is little slow because we are getting in touch with various specific colleges finding out what kind of computational labs they have and try to help migrate those kind of labs with using these fast tools mainly silab and python we will just quickly show you have anything else here yeah sorry path ahead is to promote additional fast tools like open formal or open modelica additional text to companions one thing I just want to mention is we want more partner institutions to be part of this foresee initiative and help contribute and develop this aspect so any any colleges anyone who is interested please contact us either you know during the conference or soon afterwards you want to work with you to develop the most little greedy so this is this is ok this is specific for silab I do open for the website so I will just stick with this I do not want to change the site so the text to companions are available now you can take up any book all the codes are available online which is also available each of these much is it on I do not know each of these codes one thing is we have already integrated with the garuda cloud silab so you can actually select say any category I am just randomly picking your book I have no idea what kind of examples that we are having in this you can actually pick up a particular example the code is available it is now accessing the garuda server and anybody can actually execute the code and output will be displayed so in this way you do not even need to install the software and student has the flexibility to play around with these numbers and enhance their learning you can modify the code I did not pick a good example you can actually even plots will also be coming here that is also available thank you Jaindran so while connecting I can just say add to what Jaindran said these kind of things are text-to-companion support to self-workshops lab migration are expected to be replicated to every open source software that we adopt so he talked about the short silab similar thing for oscat similar thing for open form similar thing for coin war and so on this is one easy way to provide documentation actually all of these are done by 95% of the work is done by students from across the country very little is done by IIT students so we have professor Kavya Arya who will talk about E&TRA 6 minutes plus 1 my name is Kavya Arya I teach a subject here called embedded systems which is computers where you do not see them they are buried inside machines now in a very rapidly growing in fact exponentially growing like that of India there is a huge need for machines as soon as you talk about things like manufacturing industry any industry retail industry and so on and agriculture especially there is a huge need for machines cheap machines which can do all the work that we want but the students that we get out of our colleges are not used to using their hands there is a lot of road learning so we wondered how to teach embedded systems in a more project based way where people actually can take a real problem and solve it and through the distance education program here when we try to teach this topic we found it very difficult so we found that we came up with a very nice answer when we designed a little robot which students could then program and they could write code for solve little problems with and stuff like this so along with that we came up with a very novel way of project based learning where we try to develop not a robot but an entire ecosystem based around this robot with which students can see a real problem in the outside world and solve it using the robot in the small right so that is what Iyantra is all about and ever since we got the backing of MHRD we have taken we have taken this knowledge this gyan that we have acquired all across the country and we are in the process of establishing 500 robotic labs in colleges throughout the country in the next 3 years so this is what it is all about teaching embedded systems through distance education program was difficult how does one teach systems engineering which has become more and more important as time goes on computer systems are not living in isolation anymore they are actually connected to other systems so it is a much more complex problem where design skills engineering skills software skills are all equally important so how do you actually teach these kind of things right so the core of our of our entire is typically we teach students convergent thinking take a problem analyze the hell out of it and come to an answer but actually most problem solving is about take a problem think of 10 different ways to solve it first and then think of different ways to analyze and study what needs to be solved that's divergent design thinking right and the core of our approach is that we target the project component in a student's curriculum we teach project based learning and we target at the moment be projects we are trying to put this into the curriculum but be projects kids don't realize that the project that they do the final year project is actually the jhanam kundali as an engineer that shows what a guy is capable of and typically they buy these projects or they do some feeble kind of library kind of software or whatever it is they don't really exercise their minds and the first thing I ask any interview you who comes to IIT either for an m tech program or project assistant or whatever it is tell me about your BE project right and that's when we sort of study how well they vibe with the technology so how can we do this in a scalable manner so we have to build an ecosystem when they built an LCA they didn't have to build an aircraft they had to build an aircraft industry so we realized that we are trying to push this robot out we are not pushing a robot out into colleges we have to build entire ecosystem so that is the story of IIT right now so there is this thing called the Washington Accord and I was educated about this by a professor Ray this is his slide I think where it talks about these are skills that engineering students should have many important skills like design investigation modern tool usage and so on IIT can really help each of these elements being taught in colleges so this is the ballpoint pen that we have developed with students can write interesting robotic stories this pen is trying to become a commodity item we are trying to bring down the cost of this pen and we are trying to improve the kind of stories that students can write by borrowing other stories which have been written and building more interesting stories around them often we I used to go to colleges students wanted to a robotic project you don't get a robot in the market if it's there is Lego Mindstorm just too expensive you use a small component you render the whole thing useless not good right so at the moment they can buy this off the shelf and just use it right if it gets spoiled to some part they can just have it fixed and more important than this is the ecosystem of previously written software and module if he wants to do a complex task and he has the problem of say localization how do I find out where my robot is in this space rather than build the wheel from scratch he can download it off our website that some other student has built a nice localization component or an image processing component so they can build more and more complex projects around this and this is how engineers typically work in the environment outside these are expensive robots that we saw a number of years ago very very expensive and these were the family of robots that came out in our lab right so the eanthro ecosystem is this we are trying to engage with teachers students and colleges first of all we thought that oh this is very wholesome people will grab it but no people don't take it even if it's good you have to engage with them in various ways so I become an event manager we become competition managers we become all sorts of things here in order to move this stuff so we engage with students teachers and colleges students through a national robotic competition that we organized where we take problems from the real world turn them into games and make the students solve these games which we call themes right and then we seed seed labs through this then we have a lab setup initiative where we tell each college if you are willing to invest 5 lakhs in buying the equipment and you will give us 4 of your teachers to train we will give them all our gyan we will take them through the process and you will have a robotic lab much time to have 1 minute then okay so we work with both colleges and the students also have a three pronged approach this is our coverage all over India right it shows you we got extremely good representation and in summary right we have a three pronged approach with students teachers and colleges we have scalability through nodals centers and we have a symposium here every year where teachers come and exchange their best practices and our job is to sustain the whole thing now if I have a permission I have a permission because that illustrates what this is all about very well okay this is what students are capable of after a two day workshop training on the robot and then they build their own thing so this was some a course project which was done in about five weeks which is very typical of what students do right and we had an agricultural theme on the course and they wanted to build a fruit sorting robot everything has been developed by the students and the robot is down here right they use the robot to control sensors manage servo motors DC motors to solve a problem so this is the hopper which feeds lemons into this thing here which releases the lemons one at a time then it does image processing here identifies what the color of the lemon is if it is green it puts into one bin right if it is yellow it puts it into another bin right this is a very simple kind of problem which has been solved okay once the dispensing module gives one fruit to the IP module IP module so that's it thank you good afternoon thank you what I am going to be talking about is not directly an NME ICT project but you can consider some of these as either the foundation behind some of the NME ICT projects at IIT Bombay and also as something that is built upon the projects so we are an academic program and like a department within IIT Bombay it's of small size so in IIT we call them interdisciplinary programs and it's next slide please we started in 2010 and we offer a PhD program currently we have 20 little more than 20 PhD research scholars within the program faculty members core faculty members within the department as well as associate faculty members from other departments in the institute and visiting and adjunct faculty members both from India and abroad our PhD students undergo coursework they do research projects they do some outreach activities so it's exactly like any other program within the institute next slide please to tell you a little bit about the research we are doing I thought that I'll just list the titles of some of our PhD students theses and I've grouped them in a rough manner many of them in fact are about how to design some of the activities that are happening in the national mission project so for example right at the top we have research scholars working on design guidelines for virtual labs teaching programming using spoken tutorials interactive visualizations for learning engineering content and skills and so on number of our students this is the second group there are also working on using several educational technology tools and strategies to learn either engineering and science content or skills such as problem solving skills, engineering design skills problem posing skills and so on the third group there talks about the actual usage of products that come out of these projects so let's say we develop interactive visualizations and they're really good quality visualizations that have been developed but a normal teacher may not know what to do with it how to use it, how to effectively integrate it in their teaching practice so we have some students working on teacher integration of these resources and they're doing a lot of workshops and strategies on teacher integration of these resources and we do have some students working on the technology in the tools angle, working on automating either content creation such as the textbook project or designing evaluation instruments and as a department we also have been doing a lot of outreach activities the first one in fact is a part of the teach 10,000 teachers project which many of you are familiar with and we conducted a workshop for engineering college instructors helping them do action research on their own teaching practice so we did a workshop on research methods in education and then the people who submitted the assignments as they were supposed to we selected the top 50 and mentored them through a long 6 month process, the mentoring was in fact done by our PhD research scholars and 12 of them in fact submitted and their paper got accepted in the IEEE international conference last year we've also been doing a lot of workshops both face to face and via T10KT and other online modes on effective teaching learning strategies and integrating educational integrating ET in engineering education a lot of these materials are uploaded in creative commons license and here are a couple of websites where we have them so this is all the slides I had but since there are a lot of vice chancellors of colleges and senior AICT members I have one request to all of you and I think Professor Fatak might reiterate it later we have a regular PhD program it's recognized it's a regular IIT Bombay PhD and what I would like to request you is to recognize these as regular PhDs as you know as valid PhDs in your department because that's a problem many of our students are facing they have mtex or MSc's and they're doing a PhD in ET where they're learning education technology development and domain because they're using education pedagogy and technology for better understanding of domain of students so they're integrating all of these three and they're having trouble getting recognized so this is just one point I'd like to make thank you as a matter of fact I have included this as one of the agenda items in the group discussion working paper so I have the pleasure of talking to Professor Fatak we have come to the end of this program Professor Fatak will talk about he wants, he's going to talk about two topics I'll not speak much because the T-10KT program is well known I just wanted to introduce our new partners IIT Kharagpur, Professor Raja Datta and Professor Vashnik are there could they please stand up yes incidentally when we ran 10,000 teachers program typical participation was 600-700 teachers and only in one course we exceeded 1,000 teachers when we started 10,000 teachers program the typical attendance was 6,000-7,000 the first time we reached the figure of 9,950 was when IIT Kharagpur conducted a course on signals and systems of course late Professor Somnath Sengupta and our own colleague Professor Vikram Gadare taught that course very briefly the methodology is very simple the interactive lectures are delivered from IIT Bombay to these 10,000 people who assemble at over 300 remote centers 30-40 to each center the local tutorials and discussion sessions are held in the afternoon under the supervision of a local workshop coordinator who himself or herself is a teacher of that particular subject but to ensure that these tutorials and discussions are conducted with the same quality as happens in IIT had those teachers come here we train these workshop coordinators for one week ahead of this main workshop and in fact we try to account for the variations in the syllabi of different universities and the material that is covered is not at all the material that is normally taught in IIT but the material that is required to be taught in the universities we have found that this program has been very useful and very effective and we have a mandate from the mission to train 1,50,000 teachers over the next three years we are well on target an important aspect of this use of technology is significant reduction in the cost the typical QIP cost of conducting a training program for 30-40 faculty members varies between 14,000 rupees per person our thousand teacher training program reduced this cost to 9,500 this program for 10,000 teachers has reduced the cost to 6,250 per teacher of course when we train 10,000 teachers we spend 6 crore rupees in one workshop but like Anand Agarwal said if we were to train 10,000 teachers in the normal mode it would take 100 years to do that the next phase and our PRHG has approved the change in stance instead of conducting the training program for two weeks entirely face to face we will be conducting one week of the program over five weeks of massive online activities so those teachers will be trained for five weeks doing one day of work in one week and then they will come face to face one week further reducing the training program training program cost but be more importantly ensuring that the amount of time that the teacher spent is far more because they will be monitored they will be doing assignments and so on the second project that we do is the Akash project all of you are familiar with it I will not talk much about it the Akash is in your Akash is not a design innovation tablets are there everywhere it is an innovation in affordable and appropriate technology tablets are only access devices this device is an access come computing device so we have done two important things one we have negotiated price for a minimum acceptable hardware and performance configuration second we put in a whole lot of useful educational applications and contents all released in open source and the creative commons and third we have actually made that as a full-fledged computer by porting Unix so the Linux works on that in your kit there is a small SD card if you insert that card into the SD card slot and boot it it will boot Ubuntu and in that Ubuntu you have complete programming environment it is a full-fledged computing machine we have used these for training for our students to actually write programs while doing exercises no tablet can be used for that purpose as of today so these are the important things the next phase our project was to get 1 lakh tablets and field test them so we received these 1 lakh tablets our cost was 2263 because there was no custom duty we tested them in the labs through CDAC and we have tested them in the field some 300 colleges which are all our remote centers are also Akash project centers additionally about 8 IITs are also participating and the development work that is being done is constantly being put onto a single website called I think akashlabs.org yeah so we have stores there so you can look at those one of the very important things in which we call a killer application is that we have designed the clicker devices to conduct quizzes online in the class we ported the clicker software on Akash and as Professor Kannan said it he has been using it in his class in a flip classroom model we have used it in our T10KT programs this particular application incidentally one very recently the Akashlabs National Award in the category called IT for Education so that just happened three days or four days ago the next version of Akash the specifications have been drawn since that will be a regular commercial activity IIT Bombay is not involved in that project but we participated in the inter-ministerial committee to design the specs DGSND has just completed running a rate contract process where there is a rate contract and there is a sort of concession that is available for 1001 lakh, 5 lakh pieces etcetera there will be four or five vendors who will be identified and universities colleges and general people can actually purchase those through the rate contract that would I think finish in about one month's time the third project which I will mention in just about five minutes is the MOOCs offering as mentioned in the morning we started our activities through the association with EDX and will be offering the IIT Bombay courses on EDX but more importantly we want to offer a blended MOOCs course directly to the students whether students will receive their grades through this course rather than doing a course in the universe I recently submitted a presented a invited paper principally elaborated both the need for teachers for discussion and therefore better learning and the use of the modern technology and how to blend it it's a long paper printed copies have been kept in the seats of the next hall where we will be going so please pick up that copy but please don't read it then because there are more important activities that you have to do please carry that print out and please do read it at home because tomorrow I will be referring to it again and we will be starting this pilot for those technical universities or the autonomous colleges or autonomous universities which wish to adopt two courses we are offering one in thermodynamics and one in computer program thermodynamics course is being taught by Professor Gayathunde I am going to personally teach CS1O and as I said we expect at least one lakh students minimum to benefit from this pilot but if there are one million so be it we will have the infrastructure there we are using the EDX platform itself we are very happy to do these large things just one thing I would like to mention is that very recently through another sister project of the ministry Techip project I have been asked to try and see how we could use these technologies in a massive way in 191 Techip colleges I suppose many of those colleges will be part of the technical universities here and this involves both offering of the massive online courses through the blended mode including establishment of a local infrastructure in each college so that the local teachers if they want to offer a MOOCs within their college on the local area network they can offer it using the same EDX adopted platform this activity is likely to start almost immediately from this point so that's all I have to say Mr. McEnany so it gives me great pleasure as far as the NME ICT projects are concerned because I am the coordinator of these projects been interfacing with the ministry and so on one of the things that I wanted to mention about TKT which is not at all obvious we at the beginning of this T10KT started that is T10KT means trained 10,000 teachers we visited many centers and then we also did some surveys feedback and there are some people doing their Ph.D. also one of the things that during that survey was under what condition will you participate in this program he mentioned the prices like it has come to 6,200 leading to 6.2 crore and so on so three kinds of questions I will attend three options I will attend this only if I get TADA travel allowance the second one I will attend even if I don't get any money third one it is so good I am willing to pay some money it turned out Professor Fadak makes money eventually eventually there were one third one third one third so which means more than 50% of the people would be ready to take this course even without funds which is a very good thing the other thing the interesting statistics we got were in some courses at least even in engineering courses 49.5% of the participants were ladies whereas when I conduct a course in QIP program when the students participants have to come from wherever they are not more than one or two ladies in a batch of about 30 people the reason is they cannot leave their home and come in the morning in the evening so we found that that was a great in fact I would say this program empowered half the population of this country and another thing that I wanted to mention we went to some absolutely difficult to reach it took three hours to go to some remote centers from a train station not even an airport not because of distances but because of bad roads but when we went there we found beautiful reception it was as if because they also had enemy ICT bandwidth they also had NKN bandwidth it was as if IIT Bombay or IIT Kharagpur were next door so that means this technology made our country a lot smaller so it's a there is another very subtle thing which also I will point out I think I was visiting SRM SRM people are here near Chennai and there was a there was a question asked from Mysore and this professor from IIT Bombay was answering it's an electronics course as soon as the question was posted then all the people local people in this university in Chennai they got into a hurdle okay what is he saying what's happening through this discussion they quickly find out somebody who knows that person needs the discussion so in other words during this course there is a potential to create 300 centers of local discussion and so on which unfortunately we have failed to create through conferences okay conferences are used for something else okay but here under this course the fantastic things happen so this is a I think it's a great program and so I thought I would add this to what was the part actually since we are in that mode of adding there is one very interesting point which I never thought would be important during our interaction in fact one of them mentioned this when Mr. Kapil Sibble was addressing them it's very interesting people from Jammu Kashmir and people from Northies said that so many programs are held but they never reach us this is the first occasion where we believe that the nation cares for us and that we are part of the nation I think that was a very important byproduct of whatever was happening