 for this to start up you are wondering what we are going to talk about this is basically about the next couple of weekends later the workshop that we plan to conduct. The idea is that you know you have spent a lot of time now learning about various subjects and you have also been teaching about those subjects so the point here is now as a teacher do you worry about problems like students not being engaged with the topic or students being only exam oriented or students not being able to cope with the syllabus so as teachers all of us worry about these problems and many of us have tried ideas to tackle these problems in our class some people have created groups and had students to work in groups too so that the students who are doing well are able to help the students who are not doing so well others have tried various other ideas like assignments and things like that so the point is would you like to know how to convert these ideas into a research paper so that is the basic goal of this workshop so we plan to conduct a two day workshop on research in education technology this workshop will provide an introduction to conducting research in education technology and it is like I just mentioned it is aimed at faculty who have used some innovative teaching method or developed a technology tool for teaching in learning and are interested in conducting an educational research study around it ok. So the key reason for doing this is that there are two reasons one reason is that there are lots of teachers in India who have these innovative ideas but we have not been able to provide them with a forum for sharing these ideas with other teachers or for being for or to get them to write it up as a research study and the second is since the past three years we have been running this conference called technology for education and from the T4E 2013 onwards if you look at the slide so from T4E 2013 onwards we plan to have separate track for the dissemination of such innovative teaching ideas that is the reason for conducting this workshop and as a disclaimer let us say in the beginning itself that this workshop is focused on research in teaching and learning so it is not going to address techniques for conducting research in core engineering and science so sometimes people do mistakes saying that ok I want to know how to use XYZ simulator or I want to know how to do research in thermodynamics or something else so this workshop is not about research in the core discipline this workshop is only about research in teaching and learning ok. So the target audience as I just mentioned are you faculty in at the tertiary level in engineering and science and if there are PhD students who are interested in this research they are also welcome to attend ok and maybe I will just hand over to my colleague Professor Sanna Muthi here for describing the details of the workshop. Some more details about the format and the content that is going to be in the workshop the dates for the workshop are February 2nd and 9th in 2013 and these are two consecutive Saturdays and the reason we have structured it in this manner is that the week in between is also part of the workshop even though we would not be here live. So there will be assignments mood based assignments before the workshop pre-workshop assignments there will be important assignments that you will have to do in the week between the 2nd and the 9th and even after the workshop there will be some assignment so the even though the live part of the workshop is on the 2nd and the 9th the actual work that you will be doing and the feedback that we will be giving will be spread over a number of larger number of days. In order to get a participation certificate submission of assignments is mandatory, it will be the content and the sessions within the workshop. So as mentioned earlier the goal of the workshop is to help you take an idea an innovative idea that you have used for teaching and learning and convert it into a research study and this research is research in educational technology. So there will of course be a fair number of sessions where you will be introduced to the principles and the practices and the guidelines theory sessions on the research methods in educational technology but equally or even more importantly there will be a lot of practical sessions where you will apply these principles and guidelines and you will use it to solve your problem to address your ideas and so on. So for example, one of the initial things you will do in the workshop is to identify a topic for this research study within educational technology. For example, you may have developed a tool to help teach a certain topic better a technology tool. So how would you implement this tool, how would you determine its effectiveness and so on could be one topic. On the other hand you may have tried some strategy in a large class to make it more interactive. So that this is what I mean by identifying a topic for your educational technology research. You will also have to identify which domain related topic you will do your implementation and effectiveness study. There will be several exercises during the workshop where you will in fact begin writing, begin planning and even begin to write part of the paper related to your study and there will be a couple of peer review sessions where you will get feedback not only from us but also from each other as to what is working and what is not working. So all this is part of the structure of the workshop. Specific content I will go through this quickly because I think from the previous slide it is more or less here. We will cover topics like what are different types of research problems in educational technology. There are two or three different themes and different types of problems. One important or a significant time will be spent on how to read and analyze a research paper because before we begin writing or conducting a study we need to learn how to analyze the different parts and different aspects of a research paper in education technology. And then a bulk of the time will be devoted to talking about how to convert your innovative idea into the study. And finally the important piece which closes all this is how do you and I mean how do you conduct a study of effectiveness. What would you measure? What sort of assessment instruments like questionnaires will you device and so on? That is going to be another part of the workshop content. So why should you attend this workshop and what will you be getting out of this workshop? Firstly you will be getting a running start into doing into beginning a study or doing starting to do research in education technology. All of you are domain experts and you would have tried some idea in terms of teaching and learning. So now we are looking at how to convert the idea in teaching learning into a systematic research in education technology. Practically if you do all the assignments and even continue beyond the workshop you will be getting guidance on planning and writing a paper that you can submit to T4E2013. So what we are claiming is that we will guide you into how to get your paper accepted at this conference. It is an IEEE international conference. It is this 2013 will be the fifth year of its running and it is being held in IIT Kharagpur in December next year. After the workshop those of you who have completed the assignment the top 200 of the completed assignments you would get additional mentoring one on one mentoring via Moodle to complete your paper to conduct your study and complete your paper. And this mentoring would be given by the faculty, staff and TAs of the educational technology department at IIT Bombay. And furthermore the top 10 would be invited to come here spend a week with us and you will get a lot of face to face mentoring, lot of time individual time on how to revise your paper how to improve it. And all this will go on until the T4E2013 submission deadline which is approximately 30th June. TADA is included for the people who will be invited to spend time here. But I should mention that the third point where you get additional mentoring there is a lot of individual feedback you will get here on how to write and revise your paper. So this is quite valuable. If you have further questions or if you simply want to show your interest in participating you can sign up on Moodle the link will be posted in middle of January roughly around the 10th of January. And as soon as you sign up there will be a pre workshop assignment and that is really important for you to do before you participate. Any other questions or clarifications please contact our eOutreach team. Thank you. Okay if you have any questions please raise your hand if you have any questions regarding this workshop. Okay this is Javaharlal Nehru Institute of Technology in Madhya Pradesh viewer 127 over to you. Basically it is indicated that one has to sign up on Moodle the link will be available on 1st January. So and that is the pre workshop assignment so whether the workshop assignment will also be there on the Moodle. Okay thank you for your question. What type of assignment one has to submit. Okay thanks for your question. Firstly a clarification the Moodle link will be available around January 10th not the 1st sometime around and it might be a couple of days before that but we will we will also send out some notification when the Moodle link is up. The pre workshop assignment will also be on Moodle so when you sign up you will be able to see the assignment and you will have sufficient time at least 2 weeks to do the assignment. It will be of the nature of reading and analyzing a paper the exact details will be available on Moodle you will be able to see it when you sign up. You will get a Moodle link when you register online and the registration form will be available on our National Mission website. The registration will be very similar to what you did in this course. Over to you. One more question please. Hello, there is one more question as you are going to workshop on educational technology so would we be able to expect that which kind of research you are going to do? I hope some learning technology including brain mapping and kind of learning through say some neurons and like these kind of research you are going to do or anything else. Ok let me just go back to one of the slides. As mentioned in the second point here the research ideas are in fact coming from you. So what we are aiming this workshop at are faculty members who have used some innovative teaching and learning idea or who have developed a tool and you want to convert that into a research study. See you might have done some idea and you might have thought that students like that or you may have felt that they learnt more but these results if you simply go and tell somebody they will say that well it worked in your class how do I know it works in mine. So if you want to share your results in a more systematic manner you will need to do a research study on this. So what are the educational research methods in order to take this idea your idea and convert it into a study is what we will be covering in the workshop. What we will not do are techniques for brain research or we will not talk anything about learning theories or even the research idea comes from you. So we will not be saying that you have to do vision tracking or brain research or any other thing here. We will take your idea and help you convert it into an implementable study. Over and out we will go to the next centre. I think this will be the last centre we can take a question from. 1089 please go ahead with your question. We will upload the question and the means to submit the assignment on the Moodle link once it is available. Middle of January and as soon as you register on the registration form the Moodle link will be put up and after that you will be able to find out the link for your assignment. Over and out I think that is back to Professor Gayathandi. If you have any other questions put them on Moodle and I will pass them on to Professor Smurthy and here. Lunchtime now. So let us break for lunch.