 There are two parts to what I am saying now. One is about what we did over the last three days with a little critique on what we saw here, how we should prepare ourselves for the next set of activities and so on. And the second part is about what should be our second set of activities. What will we do after we go back from here? The way we need to look at any new medium, whether it is a MOOC or whether I ask you to make a presentation, an exhibition on loss of motion or I ask you to make a slide show on loss of motion or I ask you to simply give a lecture on loss of motion. Each of this is a story, each of this is storytelling and if it is storytelling, then you have in mind with you, there is this particular student for whom I am communicating. This is the way I will go about sequencing it, this is the way I will go about ordering it. This is what I will say first, this is what I will say second and so on and so forth. Now the major problem that you people had here, at least most of you who are not familiar with this medium was that you got a little intimidated by the so many different MOO things that you had to learn. You had to log in somewhere, you had to do something else, along with that you had to log in twice to enter the IIT system, first you had to do it for internet connection, then you had to log in to the LDAP and the other password, after that you had to log in to the system again. Fortunately, you have managed to battle that out. But when it comes to any new technology, you have seen that a lot of people when they bring a new car, they press the button in it, it starts ringing, they get scared, how do they close it and they press four or five buttons in it, because it happens. So I would believe that Jijak will go slowly, but there should be no desire, if any new technology can do so much, thousands of people can go to a course, there can be audio, there can be audio, there can be audio, there can be audio in languages, there can be interactivity, so obviously it will be complicated, the simpler it is from the outside, it is complicated. Hence there are too many nuts and bolts inside and in the beginning we are expecting to fight somewhere, somewhere, someone will hit a nut and bolt sometime. Given this, I would believe that you need to tell yourself that I have only now started my marathon race and that I am going to take some time to reach that point where I am comfortable with this kind of a system. Now why should I be comfortable? Why should I care about a MOOC? Not because you are some chosen great teacher and so on, let us not get into that kind of an expert model kind of activity. We are saying we have given you an opportunity. You ask yourself, do you believe that you can use this to take forward a movement that we are trying to create? What is that movement? There are thousands of children in this country who would for whatever reason never get to see the right kind of educational input. They might not have the books, they might not have access to something, they might the teacher might simply choose the wrong kind of video and show it to them. Technology hote we might not be able to deliver education and that is where our learning will hold us in good state. We need to start systematically working towards how shall I make the best possible effort so that every child in this country gets a chance to learn physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, whatever. Maybe in another batch there is going to be only history, economics, political science teachers and there I will use words like history, economics, political science and not physics, chemistry. That is okay. I am saying whatever is that subject domain that I have, society has given me an opportunity to learn this subject. I have read four books earlier than all those students and I want to leverage on this and make the best effort to make a good job. So do not get bogged down by what experiences that you had with the technology. If all of you have access to internet technology wherever you are, please spend as much time as you can looking at what everybody else has done. In fact, I would suggest all of you go and enroll yourself into as many smaller courses here and there that you can enroll into and it is not necessary that you go to physics and chemistry courses. How to look after a dog and how to do it and if someone is running a course it is not so much on what is the content of the course but how does anybody else as a presenter of a course present it. So, if you look at the tenfold, you will have an idea of what to say in the beginning and what not to say. How long should it be? What is the meaning of a very long time? When did you feel that you had the opportunity to get such questions when you see the tenfold video. So filter out the videos that are less than five minutes on YouTube. Look at a 15 minute video like this. You will have an idea of when your mind will start moving here and there. And visualize that video, why did my mind get up? What was the lack in that video? So, by doing this kind of visualization, you will have a big idea that even when I sit in front of a camera or I make a slideshow or I show a graphic animation or I show these kinds of things. So, what are the chances that my Shrotagan will be removed from this? I believe this exercise is very important that all of us indulge in a lot of practice. You have to do the same drill that the children get. If you are giving lectures or giving open courseware or giving face or whatever you are doing, you are teaching a child. While teaching, for example, a team here, they thought that until we give their entire lecture in audio, the children will not understand it. But there was no audio in this medium. So what is its development? How did we put it here? Now, this remote student that you have sitting here, one day at eight o'clock at night, when he has time, he will log in to your course. So, first you should think about what to do after the first paragraph. What should I do after that? Why should I watch this video? So, the students who are in the course, which you generally call the audio medium in the class. Now, let's give the children a lecture. Every time they say, let's learn this one today. Let's go. Everyone, open your book. The number is so and so. Now, read the first paragraph in this. After that, look at this picture. I am answering four questions about this picture. We do this in the class. So, if they are doing it, then how do we do it on such a remote medium? Whereas, I do not have an audio track. So, it is very important to think about this. What can be a problem? We have taken a very good picture and put the picture there. Will the picture speak to itself? What do we have to say? I have a suggestion for this. What should you do? Whatever you teach in your class, in the next week or the next 15 days, when you start any unit, record its audio. Turn on your mobile. Turn on your mobile recorder. Or whatever medium you have for audio recording, record its audio. Not just one class, but to complete that lesson, if you take 3 or 4 or 5 periods, then record it. What will you get from this? You will get a visualization from this that what I say in the class. Do not listen to anyone else. Keep it to yourself. Listen to it yourself. There will be many places where you are giving instructions to keep someone quiet. Or the door is open. Turn it off and say something else. There is no connection from your part. Separate those portions. Then ask, what did you say to grab the attention of the children in the beginning of the class? How did you say it? What were the words used? You are a master in the class. You have complete control. You have been studying there for 10 years. You have complete control over yourself. Despite that, the words you use, the words you speak, the way you speak, whether you understand them or not, you have a chance to find out. Do this. After this, how much can be taught in a 40-minute lesson? What will be its work? What will I do first? When will there be activity? When will there be questions? When will it be written on the board? When will there be any pictures? When will there be any other way to take questions from the children? There should be a visualization of this. All these things were taught in B.Ed. There will be no new things. But today, a style that you have developed that you feel is the most effective way to teach in the class, if you have a mapping of it, then ask that this new medium where there is no audio, that is, you are not speaking. You are not talking for 40 minutes. So how to put it in that? The first thing I was saying in 2 minutes, what is its development here? Should I write two words here? Or should I run the intro video? Or should I ask a question to the children? How do I want to present their introduction? What do I want to do after that? How will the children know how to go from step to step? When or why to go? So, in that way, where should the instruction be in your course? And how should it be presented here? Will you write something like a thought bubble there? Will you present it in some other color? Will you change its font so that everyone will know that these types of fonts are written in this way are all non-ordinary. There is no rule for this. You have to use it to see if what we want to present will reach the children or not. After that, include the children in it. Leave the children in front of it. And ask them whether you went to the next step or not. Why not? There is no time to change your instructions. I believe this is an exercise which will help us become comfortable with what we call communication in a different media. All of us have become conditioned to a particular way of communicating. We use audio and we use the blackboard. We have a way in which we combine these two. We have never called an inexperienced teacher here. All the people here are experienced. What does an inexperienced teacher do? He turns towards the board because he is scared of the children. Right? There is no such situation here. You all know what to write on the board. And what to write on the board? Where to write on the board? How to present it in a crumbly manner? We have tied you on the screen to tell you as much as possible. As soon as you pressed the second button on the upper bar, the first button went away. When you are on the left side of the board, when you are on the right side of the board, it is still visible. So, in this way we should have an experience that how should I control this new medium and how much control I have on the audio, on the written word, on the children. I should be able to control this course. I would believe this would be a very good exercise if you can invest time and effort or so, so that all of you have a very clear understanding of how I will use the MOOC platform to communicate whatever I am coming. The next point, what will we do in the next set of steps? There is always a confusion about who is going to be doing what and who is going to be controlling this and so on. So, we have tried to evolve a model. First of all, what is that large problem that we want to achieve? We want to have courses for every single topic in the school curriculum in every possible language in which India teaches her children. Now, that is a tall claim. Thousands of such courses. So, what will be your mind and how will the whole plan be? Unlike the IIT courses where an individual is called a course because that person is considered an expert in that subject and for the last 30 years has been teaching this subject and is considered an authority on that. Again, there is no guarantee that if I had five thermodynamics courses, all of them would have been equally effective. In every IIT, thermodynamics is being taught. One of them would be more popular than the other for reasons which is connected to various other things. So, we will not be following that kind of a model. We are creating a banner under which all these school courses will happen and that banner is the national repository of open education resources. Who does it belong to? It belongs to all of us. This requires the kind of lab that you have seen. This requires the kind of infrastructure of managing the edX platform of doing various other technological things that are required with this. Therefore, that has to be located somewhere. And we will try to locate that currently in the NCEERT. Immediately, it will be in this IIT. In the next 3-6 months, we are expecting that a similar studio and a similar lab will come up in each of the regional colleges. Therefore, there would be six centers available to us. It is possible that in the same way, in every ZIT, in every district, you will have to travel at that time. Now, how will we go about mapping out these things? I would expect that each of you, after having done this personal exercise of testing yourself out and saying yes, I know how to make a mook. So, in the beginning we will make a form from you and this will be the first step. I hereby certify that I am competent to create a mook. Self-certification is enough for that, no need to give an affidavit. Okay? You will have a proposal from your side that I want to make a course on this topic. In this context, you have trained a little on the topics. Until now, because we only had two days, you took a chapter of the textbook. And you did not think why you should teach it. Or did you understand whether this child is coming or not? What is our context? Although I want to reach every child, my child is in school. And there is no guarantee that the 9th grade child who has never been to school, i.e. 13, 14, 15 years old child who has not gone to school will come and enroll at least these days, I am not thinking about that kind of student. I am thinking about that student who is in your class. What help can he get from this? So in that context, we are thinking about it. So he has a textbook and you also have a teacher who is teaching and you are doing something in the class. So what kind of information can I give to the children in the class? This is what we should be aspiring for. For instance, I will just cite a couple of examples. We picked up the cell thing. Instead of teaching the whole part of the cell, if I believe in it, I only take cell wall. Cell wall is a grand nature natural mechanism for filtering out anything which is foreign, anything which is an enemy to the cell. It is a beautiful mechanism. It does not let any foreign body enter it. It does not let anything harm itself. How does this happen? There is a beautiful story behind it. If we can present that story in the form of audio-visual, in the form of animation, in the form of interactions. The guidelines of the National Curriculum Framework are one guideline going beyond the textbook. Similarly, inside the cell, there is a powerhouse available inside there. ATP, ADP cycles are running, a CREP cycle is running, and some energy comes out of it. How did you discover this? How did somebody find out about such things? Is it done through chemical reactions? This is such a small thing sitting there. How did somebody find out that in this small thing all these things are happening? In the textbook, it will be 5,000 pages. That is why it does not let anything harm it. But there is a medium here to get supplementary information. What is the purpose? The purpose is that there is interest in the children towards science. If you are a teacher of science, you are a teacher of history, you should do the same. There should be interest in the history. There should be interest in the future. So this is the direction in which you will have an idea that I am ready to do a course and I want to do it. We will show that idea to more than 5, 6, 10 teachers. And they will also take the idea of taking this idea as it is or changing it and with you will join that instructor team. And all this will be virtual. Until the proposal is not accepted that yes, there is a course on it. After that, when the course will come to be made, we will bring you CIT. How will we bring it? Leave it to us. If you have reached here, we will also reach there. So this team who is going to do a particular course, we will bring the CIT to that course team. You need video, video, animation, whatever technology you want, it will be available. And all these 5, 6, 10 people will join that course. You all will make that course together. After making the course, when you launch it, wherever you are, you know that in the first week you will have to interact with it. So you do it. After that, if there is any other option, go ahead. We will give you the rights to come and do that. So there will be another team which will be doing that kind of thing. So we will continuously create a mechanism whereby CIT will start hosting small teams of people at a time who will be working on 2, 3, 4 different kinds of courses and over a period of time will ensure that all these courses come up. So this is the general mechanism that we are looking at. First step, I want all of you to become MOOC creators and MOOC instructors. For that, whatever experience you want, you will get that experience. Second step, you will make a proposal if you are interested. And it is not necessary that you have to take the textbook and do the course on this. Like I said, if you want to know a lot about flowers, then you can choose any course you like. We can always connect it as a supplementary material to some portion of our syllabus. There is no problem about that. When Prastha is accepted, then we will go ahead and develop that. This is the general mechanism that we are looking at. So we are not looking at you people sitting in your schools and trying to create a MOOC. But you are making a proposal therefore you are committed to developing that course as soon as you make a commitment. I would like to say that Prastha was a minister for this course and you did not press the button then you will not get a chance. It is as simple as that. Somebody else will take it away. I have no issues about that. I need a course. But we have chosen you so therefore we believe that you will get a chance to do that. So please ready yourself opt for this kind of a thing. Make a proposal What are the rules required? What will be the payments done? All that is my problem, not your problem. Okay? Do you have any doubts or any questions? I told you that first you will have to tick because when you are sitting in my video studio then I will reject it. So when you are ready then we will do it. Basically when this MOOC will be launched then we will correct these topics and as a topic heading we will release them there. So these topics are open first 6 topics. Okay? Now who will write on this topic? It is a cheat. Okay? Obviously if I put it here then it means that I will have to start from time to time. And they will not give me much time. They will give me more than 2-3 months. December is something that I would believe that our course should be ready for launch. Isn't it? So we should be ready by then. Anything else? Okay? Thank you. By the way, don't worry about that I did not succeed in this. I did not do this. I could have done this better and so on and so forth because that is not why you were brought here. You were brought here to be exposed to a new way of the world. Till date you were told that you are capable of teaching only 50 people. Now we are saying you could perhaps be capable of teaching 50,000 people at a time. Okay? We want you to learn this new medium. We have introduced you to that. At best we have taken you inside an aircraft and said it is called aircraft. Here we sit here, here we tie the seat like this. This is all that we have done. We have introduced you. We have taken you on a guided tour and we have let you sample it and different people now have a personal realization that what I have to do in this and when you go back they are not there so you don't have to compare yourself with them. Each one of you get on to a personal journey. I am sure all of you are very capable of going on this journey and I look forward to your proposals. Thank you.