 Welcome back to this valedictory session and I would like to thank you all for taking the effort to sit through this course and I hope you have gained something from it both from the lectures and also from the laboratories. I want to say a few things about you know what drives me, what makes me enthusiastic about a course like this. The first thing is that in a course like this the way Prof. Fartek designed this whole series of course there are other courses in which he has conducted too and in all of this an important part is the practical hands-on aspect and the theoretical part you know people can read from a book they can pick it up in other ways. A course like this helps in the sense that you know when you ask a question there are a lot of people that you know have also taken the course and you can get answers from them and I think the experiment with Piatza has been very nice for this aspect. But like I said the thing which drives me is the practical aspect. If you look at India and you look at China one of the major differences is that Chinese people seem to be producing everything on the sun. Any product that you see they are making it while you know we are great at examination system and so on. Of course we do produce a lot of fantastic products but if you see the products that come out of our own institutions many of them unfortunately are not ready to go produce in the industry. We are looking at computer science and more narrowly databases but even within this spectrum all too many people who go out are not actually ready to go and produce stuff. They have maybe learnt some theory but they are not imbibed the drive to go and build stuff and my hope is that the laboratory component of courses like this will expose a lot more teachers to the you know way we believe that laboratory should be run. I am not saying that we have the ideal model some of you I am sure will have excellent ideas and will run labs in your own way but I would say this is like a minimum at least this much and if you can do better fantastic you know many of you have actually asked me questions which I do not know the answer clearly those of you who did this have been you know picking up a lot of stuff and I am sure when you teach your students you know you may be teaching them better than I do mine. But I my goal is that those of you who are not in that league are also brought so in this regard I would really like to thank all the colleagues of mine who have taught this course namely the resource center coordinators at all the 250 centers and the people who have assisted them because they have taken on the bulk of the load in running the labs in grading the assignments in helping you more important helping all the participants when they go through the assignments I am sure many issues came up I am sure there were software issues I am sure there were places where people were stuck and these are the people who have been on the ground with you in helping you that part is something which it was not possible for me to cover from here and that I think is a critical part of any course so I would really like to thank all the resource coordinators for taking the efforts they have spent probably even more effort than I have because they have come all the way to Bombay spent a whole week listening to lectures doing the problems and picking up everything you know some of them surely knew all this stuff before but others did pick up new stuff and those who already knew it hopefully you know learned a little bit by interacting and helping out others who were not as familiar and now they have gone back and they have done another two weeks of this helping all of you so I would really like to thank all the my co-teachers of this course the resource coordinators at all 250 centers and to all the participants this is just the beginning right I mean the main work lies ahead when you go back to your colleges and you run the courses I hope that the course will have a positive impact on how you teach the courses how you run the laboratory components of your courses and so forth. We have a very nice resource in Piazza which people have been using it is not going to be shut down after the course it will stay open and you can continue using it in fact it will be most useful if many people continue using it I am sure when you set up software you will have issues you will have doubts please go ahead and ask it some of the you know participants of the course themselves have been answering a lot of questions on Piazza it is wonderful to see that wonderful to see how many people have been asking good questions and how many students meaning the participants of the course have been giving very good answers. I would also like to thank some of the teaching assistants from IIT Bombay our own M.TIC students who have been giving a lot of answers on Piazza I was pleasantly surprised to see how many answers in I think there are two or three of them Sumit Sahu is one who comes to mind and then Pushkar the number of answers that they have given on the Piazza site and good answers to the point are is fantastic there have been others who have contributed to I have seen several other names there I do not remember all of them will be a disservice if I name some and forget the others but quite a few have played a big role in the Piazza side of things in addition of course to the role that they played during the coordinators workshop few weeks ago there were many TAs at that point I think about 20 TAs who helped out in that and who helped out those coordinators who are new and needed help they did a fantastic job so thanks to all those TAs and then of course to the staff who have done a fantastic job I will let Prasafatek you know tell you more about his big vision and then maybe you can tell you more about what his staff have done so with that I will sign off thank you and over to Prasafatek. Thank you Prasudarshan and good evening to all the participants unfortunately there are way too many remote centers about 250 of them I can see only a few of these in front of me I think we will soon introduce some kind of a management monitor which will automatically shift from 10 or 15 centers for 10 seconds like a photo frame where the photos keep moving. I have been although I never interacted with you except at the beginning I have been following the course progress you may not know this but Prasafatek made me a member of the Piazza so I have been observing the interaction late nights etc etc and I endorse completely what Prasafatek said namely that the level of enthusiasm and the level of participation particularly the level of question answers that went on are very heartening it tells me that the majority of teachers have come here not only to just get a certificate but actually to benefit from this experience of a course and how a course is run typically at IIT and how we believe you all ought to run this course. Prasafatek should mention an important point which I will stress once again you see the same book is followed for a particular subject in most universities probably there are good teachers who teach from the same book the two things which make a particular offering of a course different is the way problem solving is emphasized which is directly related to labs and tutorial sessions I will as I said I will reiterate the emphasize placed by Prasafatek Sudarshan and I think you would have also found that out that the crux of our style of conducting these training programs is to insist on fairly heavy tutorial and lab sessions in fact in most of the courses that we run at IIT it is the tutorials and lab session which bring in the quality understanding in the minds of students I would urge you as he did that when you go back and teach these subjects to your own students please insist on a significant good effort being spent by your students in doing the labs tutorials and problem solving in fact all of these are group activities and that is the reason why we assemble the students in a group in a classroom or in a lab etc etc just as 30 40 50 60 of you have assembled at one place this is one major difference between a massively online open course that is offered by let us say a large organization where one lack participants may register but there is a limit to which one can excel in understanding a particular subject to great depth if one is working alone particularly for discussions of problems particularly for tutorials and labs the group environment is most conducive as I had mentioned in my initial address to you at the beginning of this course the role of teachers is increasingly changing in the days where ICT is becoming predominantly incorporated in all of our teaching learning processes with the massive online courses mere lecturing will not remain the role of a teacher but problem solving discussing issues with students helping them to actually conduct good experiments and helping them to build the systems using whatever knowledge they gain will become important it is for this reason that there is an element of additional work to be done by all participating teachers I believe it is a two week duration project and the projects have been assigned to the teams I hope so they have chosen the projects so you will be working in teams over the next two weeks and making submissions I am very sure that based on the experience that you gained and the learning that you had in this workshop will actually do a very good job of building some very good systems at least prototypes which could subsequently be used not only by you but by all other colleague teachers as project problems in their own offering of the course in their own institution because we propose to make all of these in open source talking about open source I will once again request you with a warning that when you solve such problems in groups or individually and submit them with an intention that the solution and the problem will appear in open source for people to see it is critically important that there should be no element of plagiarism in such submissions we depend heavily on the self discipline of the individual and the discipline of the individual teams to ensure this so please remember once again that in your submissions anytime anywhere but right now pertaining to the submission that you make of the assignments please ensure that everything that you write the code that you write is all your own in case you use some material from some other source which let us say is important to explain your own work that you have done in the assignment please do not forget to code the correct reference from where such material is taken or from where such material is studied please remember that our actions in this regard of following ethics and having absolutely top class moral practices is critical because if something otherwise is observed by a student any student in the country in the material that we open source their faith and trust in us as teachers made windows significant. So, my appeal to you once again please remember that we are not associating an evaluation with the assignment for the purpose of certification although in IIT system we do that and we would like to do that but even if some assignment if we were to evaluate it formally giving marks etcetera does not score good enough marks because people have not been able to spend sufficient time solve that problem that is ok we will still issue the certificate of participation to all people. However what you submit must be your own please keep that in mind I am sorry for emphasizing this point again and again but time and again you see examples to the contrary which be little our faith in the fundamental processes ethical processes that we must run at least in academics. I had mentioned to you that we would be running our first massive online open course sometime in August, September there is good news that I have to share just now I am coming from a meeting which was attended by the deans and the senior leaders in our academic programs and our educational technology people and we have endorsed IIT Bombay becoming a member of the consortium called EDX which is started by MIT and Harvard if everything goes well it is quite possible that IIT courses at least some of them could be soon offered under EDX with hopefully a lakh or two lakh students registered while I am digressing it is important for you to understand where things are moving with these courses for example students from your colleges would be free to register for these courses and learn as much as they can they will of course get some certification but if that certification has to have a value internally within your own colleges then it is important that your colleges and your university adopts a mechanism to accept the grades given by IIT Bombay and include them in your own grading system. What we expect right now at least is the students who attend these courses will benefit to such an extent that for giving your own exams of your university solving your papers they need not attend coaching classes but they will benefit from whatever understanding they have. We will of course be using a blended model not a completely what should I say online model alone where we may use the existing remote centers and other colleges to permit assembly of these students in groups either for discussion sessions or solving problems or for interaction with IIT Bombay. As I said we believe in a blended mode of education just as you see now where so many of you have assembled at one place because that group activity makes a lot of difference a lot of sense where discussion happens and clarity comes out much better even if someone else asks a question and somebody else answers it. I would also like to mention a few things you have been experimenting with the clicker application on Aakash tablet. Sadly not all remote centers could receive all the tablets and in some remote centers the tablets were not issued clicker application is not the only thing that you do with Aakash. In fact the 250 remote centers including all those where this course is being this workshop is being conducted. I have agreed to offer at least one subject to one class of students next semester which they will teach using Aakash. How exactly they will use Aakash is up to them but primarily they will use the quiz module they will use the facility to store video recorded lectures they will use the facility to store may be simulated labs or virtual labs whichever way they want to be. I will be getting back to them independently on this issue but just for the benefit of those 250 remote centers my team has planned a demonstration come interaction session on 22nd June is that correct 23rd June I am sorry 23rd June my colleague Mr. Rajesh Kusarkar will get back to you with the details. The idea is to ensure that each one of the remote centers is able to conduct quizzes locally without having any internet connectivity or anything because that is what the teachers teaching a subject using Aakash will be using in the coming semester. So, this will be done on 22nd of course all the participants of this workshop who have been issued Aakash tablets please make sure that before you leave for your own respective presses please return these Aakash tablets back to the coordinators these will be again available to the participants of the subsequent workshop for teachers and of course in the meanwhile they will be used by the students of these 250 colleges. Since there are more than 9000 teachers a large number of which comes from colleges other than 250 colleges a normal question is whether suppose I come from a college which is not a remote center let us say I come from a college in Ratchi or Jharsu Gulavic is not a remote center, but I have students in my final year who would like to do projects on android development on Aakash would my students be denied an opportunity. Let me give you an answer the answer is no they will not be denied an opportunity while distributing these tablets we have kept a few tablets not few a few hundreds of tablets with us at IIT Bombay I will soon be writing a letter to each one of the engineering colleges in the country asking the college head and the professors to find out whether any students in their final year are willing to conduct or willing to do a final year project in terms of developing either an application or content on Aakash. We would then expect teachers like you in these colleges to look at these proposals and select any two proposals that you think are best. We will then request you to send these proposals to the nearest remote center and through these remote centers we will issue to your college four or five tablets which can be immediately be used by these final year students and their teachers who are working on this project. This way we expect to reach each of the four thousand colleges in the country and since you are attending this workshop I have the privilege of sharing this information with you first although we will be informing all the colleges later. I have already mentioned that in the coming years the role of a teacher will change from just that of lecturing to one of problem solver the one who facilitates discussion and most importantly the one who conducts labs and experiments for the students. Please use the knowledge that you have gained during this workshop to dirty your own hands. It is not uncommon for us teachers to depend upon programmers or system administrators to do the routine job of installing software and solving all kinds of problems and of course in normal operations circumstances that is probably the right thing to do. But let me tell you a secret in IIT Bombay each one of us who offers courses which requires the back end software to be installed on and tested and so on. Each one of us faculty members has actually dirtied one's hands to begin with. There is no faculty member here who runs a lab who uses certain software but who has not personally installed the software personally face the problems and personally solve the problem. It is not uncommon for a faculty member in IIT to work closely with the system administrator and together to sort out any problems of any new software that needs to be installed. I think since you have worked yourselves with your own hands but in using that software in the labs here when you go back please do try the following and in that respect you can take some hints from the workshop coordinators at each of your remote centers because they have actually practiced the installation and such thing. I do not know whether the participating teachers also had a session. So, please go back I will agree not 100 percent but 110 percent with process solution that the main difference between a good course and an ordinary course offering is the fact that large number of practical experiments are performed large number of problems are solved fairly large code is written by the participating students because that is where learning happens of course in the courses of the kind that we are talking about. There would be other theoretical courses where this would be essential but in most engineering courses practicals lab sessions problem solving is the heart of a good quality course. I am very sure that with the two weeks that you have spent you would be able to imbibe part of this important ethos and when you go back you will be able to teach your own subjects in a much better fashion back home in your colleagues. Before concluding I would like to extend my personal thanks to all the workshop coordinators and their institutions for supporting this great project. The national mission project is deemed to be successful the 9000 teachers who are participating are going back happily entirely because the coordination work that is performed by my coordinators and their respective institutions. In no small major this entire workshop has also been supported by a large number of people at IIT Bombay itself. Professor Sudarshan has already mentioned the important contributions made by his teaching assistants and let me tell you it was not limited only to answering queries and Piazza but they have done a whole lot of work earlier in setting up the lab problems and variety of things. We have of course our large team which conducts these workshops here so I would like to again like Professor Sudarshan I would like not like to name people but we have people who manage the workshop administration we have people who manage the audio visual systems we have people who manage the financial transactions we have people who manage the logistics handling many of them are sitting here I do not think can we can we have yes there are some of the people that you see here not all of them many of them are doing their jobs at different places. So, thank you very much team T 10 K T as I call it ten ten thousand teacher program and there is another program being offered by our sister institution IIT Kharagpur. I am sure many of your colleagues from your colleges would be attending that particular workshop which is on analog electronics we at IIT Bombay will meet you again formally for another two week workshop in the month of December but in between rest assured that there will be continuous interaction with us first in the form of the assignment submission that you make second in the form of certifications the certificates that will have to be printed and sent incidentally I would like to request all workshop coordinators to very quickly send us the complete attendance list so that the certificate printing process can start of course the certificates only will be given when the teams will submit their final assignments all in all IIT Bombay is very happy and proud to see more than nine thousand teachers participating in this national mission effort it is us teachers who have a responsibility given by the society namely to train the young minds. Let us learn from each other let us learn from whatever is the best in the world as we have tried in the last two weeks let us continuously update ourselves by learning whatever we are doing subsequently and let us offer the best learning environment the best learning experience and the best knowledge to the ultimate beneficiary namely our students when you go back please remember this and work towards this thank you very much God bless you. Thank you Mr. Fartak he is the person who conceptualized this whole program and he is a really driven man works 24 by 7 much like the servers with zero downtime so it is really nice that he has conceptualized the whole series of programs and I think he has more than earned the distinction which he was conferred earlier this year I am sure almost all of you would already know this but you can see one part of the reason why he is now Padmashree Mr. Fartak. Thank you Mr. Fartak.