 Good afternoon to everybody and welcome to the ISTA workshop on Research Methods in Educational Technology. I am Sahana Murthy, I will be one of the faculty instructors of the course and the other instructor for this is Professor Shridharayur and he will be there with us on Saturday. What we will do first is discuss the goals and the objectives of the workshop. What is this workshop about? What is not part of the workshop? What is the content in the workshop and so on. So, we will spend about 5 minutes talking about the objectives of the workshop and then I will walk you through the schedule of not just the 2 days, but what is happening in terms of the schedule of the workshop starting from when the pre-workshop assignment was uploaded until after the workshop also. So, as many of you would have seen from the brochure, the main goal of the workshop is to get college faculty familiar in conducting research in educational technology. And the workshop is aimed at college faculty who would have anyway tried an innovative teaching method or perhaps used an educational technology tool in an innovative way and they are interested in conducting a research study about it. So, we are looking for teachers who have this idea of something new, something different that they have done in terms of teaching or learning within their subjects and now want to see want to study it systematically and see if it works and see how they can present the results of what they have learned from their study in a scientific systematic manner. So, we are looking at teaching and learning as a scientific research problem throughout the workshop. And the long term goal of the workshop beyond February 2nd and 9th is to get participants to be prepared to submit a research paper of this nature to the IEEE Conference on Technology for Education which is in December 2013 to be held in Kharagpur. Before we look at the topics covered in the workshop, let us spend a few minutes on what is not part of the workshop and this is really important because you may face questions from your participants or there may be this is different from a normal workshop let us say on electronics or on mechanical engineering because this is not a workshop on a specific topic instead it is a workshop on a methods related, it is a methods related workshop. So, the participants will come here to learn about skills and methods of doing research in educational technology regardless of what domain they are from. So, primarily the workshop will not address techniques for conducting research in the core science and engineering subjects. We will not teach them how whether if they want to conduct a research study on algorithms or if they want to do something in heat systems they will not learn that from this workshop this is not the right venue. Secondly, along the same lines we will also not be talking about any fancy gadgets where which to conduct brain research on students we are not going to be giving you or we will not be telling you how to construct the tools in order to do this research instead what we are saying is you have an idea and what we will help you do is or what we will do is take you through some lectures and activities which will help you convert your own idea into an educational technology research study. So, as from here I think it is quite obvious that the success of this workshop and how much participants will benefit will depend a lot on what they bring to it. So, the more active they are the more benefit it will be and if they are not active the workshop will not be useful and more on that a little later. The second point I would like to make is since we are trying to solve problems or address issues related to teaching and learning such a platform can easily become a gripe session or a crib session about the problems that I face while I am teaching or the fact that students are not motivated enough or the fact that students are not learning. So, we want to caution everybody that this is not a crib session it is not a gripe session instead what we are doing is picking up one such problem and immediately coming up with an innovative solution to it. So, throughout the workshop our focus will be on the solution once you establish what the problem is and why it is important we are going to talk about the solution your solution and how you plan to address this problem. So, as coordinators a very important role for you is to make sure that the discussions and the activities do not degenerate into a crib session. Please keep encouraging participants to think about how they will solve this problem and what is new about their solution and how they can systematically study the effectiveness of their solution and so on. So, a lot of the success of the workshop will hinge upon your role as in terms of how you encourage the participants to actively take part in the activities. So, as we have been talking so, until now the workshop is focused on research underlined. So, it is not a teaching session and research on teaching and learning. So, it is not research in the core engineering or science domains. So, let us look at briefly look at the topics that we will discuss during the workshop and we will talk about the different types of research problems and the different types of research papers that are studied in the domain of educational technology. What the participants have done so far is filled out the pre-workshop assignment which I would encourage all of you well which all of you must go and read and see what it is about. In fact, it is very good if you also solve the pre-workshop assignment. And then from the ideas coming out of the teachers themselves, we will see what are the different types of research problems and then we will look at published research problems in journals and conferences and discuss what are the different types. We will then talk about what to look for when one reads and analyzes a research paper in educational technology. What are the different pieces that must be there in such a paper for it to get published? How to write these different pieces and how the what are these different parts of the research paper that is what we mean by analysis of the different types of research problems. Then we will take your or the participants innovative teaching and learning idea and walk the walk through the steps of converting it into a research study because by the time we have done bullet point 2, we know what must be there in a research study. So now, it is time to apply that learning into your own into your idea. And a large part of the second phase to phase day of the workshop will be spent on how do you plan and conduct your own study that you have already thought about and that you have already conceptualized until now. So these are the four main broad topics, there will be some going back and forth between these topics and what we can do next is see how the schedule of the workshop is right from last week until after February 9th. So I want to ask a question at this point and just have all of you answer maybe to yourselves. Have you all seen the pre-workshop assignment? The only correct answer here is yes and if you have not seen it then please go and see it. The second question is have you done, have you solved the pre-workshop assignment? And I would ask all of you to please go and solve the pre-workshop assignment because then you know what the workshop is going to be about and what your participants will bring to the workshop. So if you have not solved the pre-workshop assignment please for this assignment put yourselves into the role of participants and actually work it out. So you will know what we are requiring of the participants and what they will have to do, what they bring to the class when they come, what they bring to the workshop when they come on the second and so on. So so far the pre-workshop assignment has been uploaded and this is what we have done from IIT Bombay. As the RC coordinator your role is to emphasize to participants that the pre-workshop assignment must be done. So if you have their email addresses it might be worthwhile sending out an email to your own RC participants that you need to complete the pre-workshop assignments please do it and it is required to do it before attending the workshop otherwise the workshop will be useless. What the participants are doing now is actually solving the pre-workshop assignment and as of now we have about 1000 entries uploaded out of 6000 odd participants. So we still have 80 plus percent of the participants who have not done the pre-workshop assignment. So again here you have a large role to play encouraging them to finish the assignment. Then we come to February 2 which is the first face to face day of the workshop and if you see we are not calling this as a two day workshop because it is really not a two day workshop you can think of it as a two face to face days plus a few weeks solving assignments on Moodle. So it is it is much more than a two day workshop. What I would request all participants is that they arrive by 9 and be ready be seated by 9.20. So any administrative tasks that you want them to do or if there is any small things that need to be solved please make sure that it is all done by 9.20. If you want them to come earlier you can feel free to tell them to but by 9.20 we want everybody to assemble and be ready because we are going to start the first session at 9.25. And the very first session is about setting expectations for the workshop. Then we will discuss a lot about what we expect the participants to do, what the workshop is about, what we expect the participants not to do and essentially what how to set their expectations and our expectations so that everybody benefits from the two face to face days. Again here we would like the participants to be in their seats by 9.20. So make sure that every all the administrative issues are dealt with by then. Then in the morning session of February 2nd we will have interspersed lectures and activities a series of them and there will be a tea break in between from 10 from 11 to 11.30. And these lectures will be on the topics that we have seen in the previous slide. Now we will be on some of these topics discussion of different types of research problems reading and analyzing papers and so on. Your role again here is important because you will be facilitating the activities and what I mean by activities the I will give you some examples of activities. In some activities we would like participants to write something in their notebooks individually. In other activities we would like them to talk to each other in pairs. So we would ask them to pair up with a neighbor and have a mini discussion. In some other activities what the pairs will do is report back to you the center coordinator on what their pair discussed and then your role would be to relate all of it to us through the chat forum. So we will have activities throughout the day on February 2nd and February 9th and apart from facilitation there is not much we require of you because we will tell you exactly what to do. For example we may say the coordinator could you please take a vote of the participants and tell us the majority vote through chat or we may say that participants now have to discuss with each other. So could the coordinators please make sure that everybody has a pair. But the other important role you have to place to encourage this active participation because as we mentioned earlier without the participation that is where most of the learning is happening. There are not going to be many lectures and a lot of activity instead the time is going to be filled by a lot of such activities they are very structured. So we have prepared these structured activities and we can we lead the participants through the activities step by step. So you need not get this you need not get apprehensive as to what is this activity because we lead them through the slides. But we want to make sure that everybody is participating. And as we all know most people are serious most people want to participate but there will always be some participants who are either inactive they may be sitting in a passive manner or worse they may be trying to disrupt we all have seen people like that. So as a coordinator one of your roles is you can be strict with them you can enforce discipline in your class in your center feel free to use any method you would like if you feel that somebody is not participating and does not want to you can tell them that it is mandatory to participate in this in the activity to be part of the workshop. So if you do not want to participate it is okay to leave do not we do not mind if anybody leaves but what we want is everybody should be actually on task focusing on the activity and doing the activity. So it is really your role to enforce the discipline and make sure that the serious people get a fair chance of being part of the activity. In the afternoon the schedule is very similar to the morning I think I forgot to mention lunch here it is there on the next slide. So 1 to 2pm is lunch and we will assemble back strictly at 2pm because we have a full day of activities after that. So the afternoon sessions will be more lectures and activities on similar topics because we have a lot of topics. So we will do some in the morning and some in the afternoon tea break in the afternoon is from 3.30 to 4pm and then from 5 to 6pm we will open the floor to all the centers and we can take questions and at that point your role is to facilitate the question answer if you like there will be a mic to be passed around you may have to summarize some queries and so on. Participants can ask questions related to the workshop during that time okay. So this is this coming Saturday February 2nd then in the week between the two face to face days so between February 3rd and February 8th there will be another assignment similar to the pre-workshop assignment we are calling it as the idea proposal assignment. This is something we will upload as soon as day 1 is over and in this week participants have to complete the assignment. So all the details all the instructions will be in the assignment and we will also talk about what this assignment is during Feb 2nd afternoon. So we will introduce this assignment on February 2nd participants will do the assignment and similar to the pre-workshop assignment your role is to emphasize to participants that they must be done because if they do not do it then February 9th is not going to be very useful for them. So on February 9th again we will follow very similar schedule to February 2nd lectures and activities in the morning very just the topics will be slightly different but it is a similar format. Your role is to facilitate the activity and encourage participation. Participants will be learning from lectures and doing the activities. Lunch from 1 to 2pm and similar lectures and activities in the afternoon I think we can stop a little early on day 2 afternoon we will try to stop by about 4.30 so that we have more than an hour for questions if necessary. What will happen after February 9th is the following there will be a final assignment which is posted and all participants if they want the certificate for the workshop they have to finish the final assignment. So that will be from February 10th and we will give them about 2 weeks or so 1 to 2 weeks we will discuss that and let you know we will upload the final assignment on Feb 9th and they have a week to do that. Once they submit the final assignment then they are eligible to get the certificate but the workshop does not stop there even though officially it might stop because we will we have a team a large team of TAs who will go through the assignments and they will select the top 200 of the assignments the ones who have really done well and they will provide them mentoring through Moodle to take their draft which is if you recall the title of the workshop and if you recall the last bullet point here in terms of the goals we want to prepare participants to submit a paper to the international conference on technology for education. So the final assignment will be similar to uploading a draft then the top 200 of those will be mentored by our TAs to be able to submit a paper to this conference and the deadline is sometime in May. So from middle of February until May there will be some rounds of mentoring going on even though it is officially not part of the workshop. Official workshop stops after the participants have uploaded the final assignment which is which is between Feb 10th and the week after that. So I think let me stop here and we can take a few questions right from if you have any if you need any clarifications about the schedule of the workshop and so on. What I request you is to limit your questions right now related to the goals of the workshop the format and the technical part of the workshop. So I would not be I am the faculty member in the educational technology department in IIT and unfortunately I personally would not be able to help you related to administrative related questions or questions on Moodle and so on. If you have questions on that we will tell you what to do but not right now right now please limit your questions to those related to the workshop topics, objectives, format and so on. So our first question is from please start raising hands if you have questions related to the workshop objectives, format and technical details. So we have double 1, double 6, Bhilai Institute of Technology Durga over to you. Good evening madam this is RCC from 1166 I had a query. Please go ahead. And it was for doing activities on 9th of February. Yes. Should we have computer machines along with the participants parallelly as they are hearing the lectures? Okay let me repeat the question because this is an important question. On February 2nd and 9th do our computers required for the activities? Let me see for some of the activities what we require is paper and pencil. So what I request all the coordinators is to keep some paper even though the participants might bring notebooks some of them may not. So it will be good if you have some extra paper but for some of the other activities yes we would need the computers. So yes some activities do require computers. We will make the arrangements. Okay thank you. Center 1, 2, 5, 3 SSM College of Engineering Tamil Nadu. The same question I want to ask is it the tablet that we have to issue or the PC's is enough? PC's are sufficient because all the activities will be uploaded on Moodle. So it does not matter whether it is a tablet or a PC we just need to be able to. So we do not need the Aakash tablet for this workshop, PC's sufficient, PC's sufficient yes. Okay thank you for your question. Center 1, 0, double 8 KK Wag Institute Nashik over to you. Good afternoon Madam. What type of assignments will be there the same question whatever the other two centers have asked. But what are the prerequisites of the assignments whether which type of materials, any papers or all that is required please give me the details of that one Madam please over to you Madam. Okay thank you. So the question is what type of assignments and the assignments will be some of the assignments are very small. I am assuming that you mean the assignments that are happening during the February 2nd and February 9th face to face days. These are the activities that are happening in between. What we will do is we will do a small lecture and the activity will be based on the lecture. So we might ask a question where the participant has to take their own idea and analyze it and they have to tell us or tell you the answer to that question and you will relay that answer through chat that can be one form of an activity. Another activity on February 2nd is they have to download the papers, download two papers that we have posted on Moodle and they have to critically evaluate the features of the two papers. So this is going to be one activity. So in terms of what knowledge is required to do these activities we will do that during the session itself. So what they need to do is complete the pre-workshop assignment before coming to the workshop. But they will also need access to the PC because some of the assignments, for some of the assignments they will have to download the papers from, download just to read it so they can read it on the PC. Two people can be assigned to a PC that is not a problem. Thank you. Center 1249 Sriram Krishnan Institute of Technology Coimbatore over to you. Good afternoon ma'am. I have a question that you said that the pre-workshop assignment, the remote center coordinator also can participate. Thanks for the question. But there is no link for a remote center coordinator to do that assignment. That is first question. Second question is if you say that some papers will be available on the Moodle for assignment or some doing some activities, whether we can take print out of those papers and give it to the participants instead of having PC? And third question is, the certificate distribution is getting delayed for the previous workshops so whether the certificate will be distributed in time over to you ma'am. Okay, thank you. There were three questions. I will take the second question first because that is the most straightforward to answer. The question is for the activities. Suppose some activity is uploaded on Moodle. Is it okay to take a print out of the activity and give it to the participants instead of doing it only on the PC? And yes that is okay if it is more convenient to you to take printouts and have the participants do it on paper that is also perfectly okay with us because what we would mostly need the PC for is to access the assignments and the activities and the papers. So if you feel that it is better for them to do it on paper and if you have facilities for printing you can do it. But the activities will be available only early on the morning on February 2nd. You will not be able to have it up much before that. Your first question was can the coordinators also do the activities and the answer from our side is yes we would like in fact we very much encourage the RC coordinators and the workshop coordinators to do the assignment. If the and your problem was that the link for the workshop assignment was not available on Moodle for the coordinators. So I will ask my colleagues who are handling Moodle to enable this that can you enable the seeing the workshop assignments can you enable that view even for the coordinators. They should be able to see it okay so my colleague who is handling who is taking care of the workshop logistic says that even the coordinators should be able to see the assignment from our side we have enabled it and if there is a problem please send an email to eoutreach at it.itb thank you center 1 to 1 5 Bajaj group of institutions Akbarpur UP over to you. Then when we will get certificate for this workshop after 2013 IEEE what is the before post workshop assignment is submission of IEEE paper in December 2013. No let me answer that question so the question is what exactly is the post workshop assignment the post workshop assignment is going to be similar to the pre workshop assignment by similar I do not mean the same questions but it will be an assignment with some questions posted on Moodle and people will have about a week or 10 days to complete the assignment and submit it on Moodle. Once they do this officially the workshop is over but people who do very well in this final assignment we will choose the top 200 and mentor them to submit a paper in this for the December conference if they like the deadline for the December conference is end of June. So that is not officially part of the workshop but the objective of the workshop is to get participants to submit a paper there. So officially the final assignment of the workshop will be a Moodle based assignment similar to the pre workshop assignment available from February 10th for about a week. I hope that clarifies your question. Ma'am we have not get certificates for our previous workshop also when we will get certificate for this workshop. Which workshop is this? May or June. Which workshop is this? Thermodynamics, ACAS workshop. Okay so these certificates are under process what I would suggest is as soon as our team has processed all of them they will send you out an email it will take some more time but these are under process we know that we will be sending the certificates back to you. We know that we have to get them to you and they are under process. Thank you. Center 1269 Institute of Information Technology Bhanipur, West Bengal over to you. Good evening madam. My question is related to the team assignments if there now what we need to know is there any guideline for formation of the team because when you assess the team individual members how you form based on our previous workshop we have seen that the team formation is very crucial. Okay let me just interrupt for a moment right here at this stage we do not envision any team assignments for this particular workshop. We may have participants informally collaborate with each other but we would not have any formal team assignments so the issue of forming teams and coordinating teams is not going to be a problem for this workshop. Center 1256 Sri Dutta Institute of Engineering and Science Hyderabad over to you. Hello madam. Good evening. Madam my question is please you can elaborate that hands-on activities you mentioned on February 2nd in participant column that is on hands-on activities what exactly the role of the coordinator are participating in that activities. Okay thank you. The question is what is the role of the coordinator in the hands-on activities? What you would mainly have to do is to ensure that the participants follow the instructions that we will give on the slides from our end. So all the what the participants have to do what the coordinator has to do at that point of time will be available on the slide at that time. So for example we may tell the participant to read the question and write the answer on a piece of paper and then we may ask the coordinator to take a vote in the room as to how many people answered yes and how many answered no. This can be one example this is just one possible example so these instructions will be available on the slide which is going to be there for that activity. Your main role is to ensure that the participants are actually doing the activity seriously and they are not sitting passively. Each activity will have will be slightly different but exactly what is to be done all the instruction step by step instructions will be there in the slides at that time. One more madam can you this schedule what is the schedule is there no can you get the schedule through mail. So the schedule that I showed you today the schedule that I showed you on the slides today we will post that on moodle by today evening. Centre 1054 National College of Engineering Tirunel Valley over to you. Good evening madam this is the first time that RC is given chance to take charge of the workshop and the moodle logging information for remote center coordinators because workshop coordinators are having moodle user name person but RCs we are not having. So because you are posting assignments and all those things in the moodle so we need that moodle user name and password. And question number two is madam somehow faculties from MBA department are interested in participating the workshop but you have clearly mentioned in the browser that MBA faculties and humanities are not allowed to participate. Can you tell me what is the question? Thank you and over to you. So regarding your first question about moodle access all the coordinators have been given moodle logins and passwords from our side. So in principle you should have received it. So I would suggest that you please go check again if you have received it or not and if you have not received it please drop us an email and the team that is handling moodle will get back to you. But from our side we have issued moodle login and passwords to all the coordinators and this I would like to emphasize this to all the centers because this question is coming up again and again. So for all the centers and all the coordinators moodle logins and passwords have been given to everybody. If you have not been able to access moodle in spite of it please first check your email to see if the login and password is already there. If you cannot find it drop us an email and our team will get back to you. Thank you. The second question you had was about the scope of the workshop and the domains represented. So firstly welcome to you as the first time center for a workshop of this nature and we really appreciate your efforts in doing so. Conducting a workshop at this scale and this nature is also first time from IIT Bombay side. So for the first workshop we are limiting the scope to science and engineering faculty. We will see how this workshop goes and if we run a workshop like this again we might open up and broaden the scope to other faculty of other domains. But this particular workshop is limited to faculty of engineering and science disciplines only. Thank you. Center 1195 Bunsen College of Engineering, Mandidi Bhopal. Hello, good evening Madam. My question is when will you upload the course material on the moodle? And the second question is what type of activities we have to perform during the workshop and is there any guidance for formation of teams? And the third question is during activity session can we interact with you for any clarification? Thank you sir. There were three questions. The first question was about course materials. So I am not sure what exactly you mean by course materials but the slides will be uploaded on the morning of the workshop and then they will stay on moodle. The slides and activities will be uploaded the morning of the day of the workshop. After that they will stay on moodle if anybody wants to access them after that. The second question about the types of activities. I have answered this question several times. So I have request all other centers who have this question not to repeat the same question again. And the answer is that these activities will the structure of the activities or types of activities will be related to the lecture that we do right at that time. The instructions for the activities will be in the slides. So what the participants have to do is follow the instructions. If the instruction says turn to your neighbor and discuss your idea then the participant has to turn to their neighbor and discuss the idea. What the coordinator has to do during the activity is to make sure that the participant follows the instructions. There was a third question related. Let me just try to recall what the third question was. You will have to repeat the third question for me. Yes during the activities session how to interact with us. I would say please use the chat window at that time. We would not be able to interact using audio video but please use the chat. You can type your question type your clarification and so on. So that would be an effective way of interacting with us during the activity session. Thank you. Center 1, 2, 7, 3. Yeah. Over to you. Good evening madam. Good evening madam. Some of the participants they won't get the Moodle ID and password. They already requested through mail to you that we haven't get the Moodle ID password. But still there is no response from your side. They are saying may I attend the workshop or not? May I confirm it or not? They are saying that question. They are asking. One possible reason why they are not getting Moodle ID is that they have not given us the right their correct email ID. So what I would ask you to check with them very carefully is if they have sent us their correct email ID. If they have sent us their correct email ID then they should be getting a Moodle ID and password. So what please ask them to send us an email with their correct email ID so that we can add them on Moodle. In the meantime yes they can attend the workshop but they must as soon as possible sort out the Moodle issue because without doing a pre-workshop assignment and other assignments on Moodle the workshop is not really going to be useful. I would say it will be useless for them to attend the workshop if they don't have Moodle access. So let them send us their correct email ID and as soon as they send us the correct email ID then they will receive the Moodle login and password. Thank you. Can they send the mail to you and madam can they send the mail to you and tomorrow or day after tomorrow also? Please send the email to eoutreach at it.itb as soon as possible if they send it to us today we will be able to work on it. If you wait till Saturday it will be difficult to get Moodle access in time. So please send us their correct email ID today itself and as soon as possible. Thank you. Center 1150 over to you. Good evening madam. Madam this topic is really very good but then because of the limitation of seats we could register only 67 participants. Now if the assignments those participants which they have received if they share with the other members and if the other members those are not registered if you allow them to attend this workshop is it possible? So we do not mind if they share the assignment yeah we really do not mind if they share the assignment we are okay if they attend but they would not be able to be given certificates if they are not registered that is going to be the problem. So sharing the knowledge sharing the assignments is not a problem from our side. And if you have room for and if your center can accommodate more number of people that is okay. Provided you can ensure that you know they are actually the serious participants because ultimately what we want are the participants who really want to learn and do the activities and so on. So as coordinator you have the discretion of making this choice. So you can tell them that unfortunately without registration they would not get certification but if they want to attend and seriously participate then it is fine. So long as you are okay with the decision. One, two, four, seven tool of management sciences Kasimpur Birwa Uttar Pradesh Good evening ma'am. This side Dr. B. R. Singh remote center controller from SMS Lucknow I have three questions one is whether participants are required to use Aakash tablet their assignment second whether the assignment will be objective or some text type of material are going to be asked whether lecture material will be of level to all the participants after workshop. Okay. The first question no Aakash is not required in fact we are doing nothing with Aakash during the workshop. Aakash is not required but access to model is required. The next question about assignments. The assignments are available on Moodle. They are what they are on Moodle. So if you have seen the free workshop assignment you will see that it is a mix of objective and text type. So whatever the assignment is you will be able to see it on Moodle. It will be a mix of the two. And all the materials whatever we do the assignments and the lecture slides and all will be uploaded on Moodle after workshop. Thank you for your question. Center 1107 Purnima group of institutions Jaipur over to you. Madam we have one query can we have the lectures in seminar hall? Yeah okay. So can you have the lectures in the seminar hall? The lectures and the activities are going to be interlinked and interspersed. So the participants will either need access to Moodle during the activities during some of the activities or you need to have a hard copy print out of the assignments for them to work on it. So one of these two options must be available for the participants. And the exact logistics of it you can decide whether you can do it on the whether you do it in the seminar hall or somewhere else but for some of the activities the participants will need to access a PC. Now if suppose some lot it speaks for the laboratory needs. No there is no separate slot there is no separate slot because these activities some of them are very small and some are about an hour long activity but so there is no separate lab and lecture here. If you are having trouble getting PC access what you can do is get a print out of the assignment and keep it in the lecture hall and participants can work on the assignment on the activity through a print out that is also a possibility. Or we can ask the participant to bring their own laptops. You can do that if they have if you are able to have them connect access model on their laptops. So if you can give them Wi-Fi access and have them access model that is also an option. In fact we do not need one PC for every participant. I have one more query madam. We do not need let me just finish please. We do not need one PC for every participant if there is one PC or one laptop two participants that is also sufficient. Please go ahead. One more query regarding I am remote central coordinator. Actually the remote central coordinator should have the access to all the workshops being conducted but the problem is because the RC coordinator is not the participant. Many of the things are not accessible to the RC coordinator. This request I have mailed also. So for this workshop all RC coordinators also have access to the materials for this particular workshop. We have made sure of that. What I mean to say all the workshops which are being conducted in the RC center actually those activities because Please send us an email about this and we will get back to you about the earlier workshops. For this workshop all RC coordinators also have access to the materials. Thank you for your question. Thank you madam. Hello madam. Professor Kulkarni, remote center coordinator we are at in Agpur. I wish to ask will there be a spot registration? No, I am sorry we are not allowing spot registrations. Thanks. We have facility of seminar hall where PCs are not there and we have separate computer center in next building. So I can make arrangement of the printouts only here. That should be fine. be ok. And yeah that should be fine. Thanks. Center 1056, Malaraddy College of Engineering and Technology, Sikandrabad. Over to you. I have one question like actually one of my participants he clicked on the verify like immediately after registering we get a mail automatic mail to verify our email ID. So, when my participant clicked on that mail ID he got the message that your mail ID is not verified successfully. Usually we used to get the your email ID is verified successfully. Like can I know what might be the reason like for that? Let me suggest one thing right now. If you have questions related to access to Moodle I am really not the right person to be answering this. So, all questions related to access to Moodle the best way to do it is if you drop us an email or contact Dinesh Ramje. They will be able to sort out your Moodle related queries immediately because if you ask me the Moodle related queries I have to look around see who can answer it and all. So, this is again a request to all the coordinators. If you have Moodle related queries please drop us an email or contact Dinesh Ramje and he would be able to sort out your Moodle related queries. His phone number is his phone number will also come on chat. Let me just tell you anyway Dinesh Ramje 022 2576 4987. Repeat Dinesh Ramje 022 2576 4987. So, request all coordinators and all people who raise their hands if you have Moodle related queries please call this number or drop us an email I will just have to pass the Moodle question from now on because I would not be able to answer it for you. Please restrict your questions for the next 10 minutes or so to questions related to the workshop format, workshop objectives and so on. If you want to know what is your role or beyond what we have discussed if you have clarifications regarding the workshop topics please ask it now. All other questions please contact us by email. One second madam. Hello. Go ahead please. Madam actually during this session on February 2nd and February 9 actually we arranged this session in a seminar hall where the computers are not available. So, we have a lab just beside this room. So, will that be ok? I think that should be ok. So, let me answer this take this question also and because it is coming up frequently. If there is an activity which requires some computer usage and if it is a longish activity there are several options you have. You can either move your participants to a computer lab if it is right next door or if it is close by because the activity may not be very long it may be a half an hour activity related to lab. You can ask the participants to bring their own laptop and have it have them connect to Moodle over Wi-Fi if you have that option. You can have print outs. So, there are several options available to you for or you can do the entire session in the lab if you have access to that. So, these are several options here you can move them to the computer lab next door if that is an option if the activity is long enough. Computer activity will computer access is required for some of the activities not all of them and these are about one hour long activities. For the short activities you would not need computer access. So, you can do it right here in the seminar hall. Okay, madam one more thing madam actually you said some IEEE conference. Actually do we have easy I think as I understood it is not mandatory that we need to publish one paper in that IEEE conference am I right? Yes. So, the question is the question is what is the relation of the workshop to the IEEE conference is it mandatory or is it only a guidance and the answer is the workshop is not directly related to the IEEE conference it is not mandatory for you to submit anything for the IEEE conference. However, we want to prepare the participants to be able to submit a paper to the IEEE conference. So, if you do the assignments in the workshop and if you make use of our future mentoring then there is a chance that you will be able to submit a paper to the IEEE conference. You can think of this workshop as a hand-holding session if you would like to submit a paper to the conference, but it is not mandatory it is not a mandatory part of the workshop. What is mandatory? Submission of the assignments on Moodle. I hope that is clear. Center 1183 Vignan's Institute of Information Technology Vizak Patnam. Good evening madam. Yes madam once the activities are given in the Moodle once we take the hard copy for the activities and then the process whether we have to need to upload the dumb activities to the same Moodle. The question is about the activities and is it necessary to upload the activities back on Moodle. The answer is no there is no need to upload the activities that is why I said that even a print out is ok. Moodle is required mainly to access the activities and to download and see what the activities are. You may need to read a small paper posted on Moodle you may need to access the question and so on. There is no need to upload the activities, upload the answer to the activities during the workshop. However the assignments that are posted as a pre-workshop assignment or the one between February 3rd and 8th individual participants will access them on Moodle and upload them on Moodle. Thank you. Madam the workshop is done on two days one is second and one is ninth. So these the activities are same on the two days or these activities will differ on the two day workshop. Different activities no it is so the entire workshop begins with the pre-workshop assignment. Day one we will discuss some topics and do some activities. The next part of the workshop is from February 3rd to 8th where individuals individually submit the next assignment. The next stage of the workshop is on February 9th new topics new activities. The final stage of the workshop is after February 10th for about a week. So the workshop is not a two-day workshop it is an entire you can consider it as a three-week long workshop. Two days of face-to-face and each stage is important. So if you miss any one stage or don't do any one assignment the rest of the stages won't be useful. There is no repetition at all in the workshop. Center 127-2 Beswan Uttar Pradesh over to you. Good afternoon ma'am. Unfortunately we missed the first half of your presentation because of the audio problem. So you know I just wanted to certain you know high-level clarification. First thing what I understand from the Q&A session is that you know center coordinator has to essentially facilitate the process on second and nine. And that is done as the things evolve. That's absolutely correct. Second thing which I understand it yeah yeah second thing which I understand is that you know we should have you know PCs or laptops. Alternatively we should have paper assignments. That would be required. That's correct. Now would these activities be uploaded on the Moodle so that you know we can download them tomorrow and be ready with the hard copies day after tomorrow. Yeah we'll try to upload them by mid-afternoon or so tomorrow. We'll do it as soon as possible but we'll try to have them as soon as possible on Moodle if you'd like to download it. Yeah basically they should be done by tomorrow end of the day so that we can take the print out and be available with the start of the workshop on second 9 a.m. Okay thank you for your comment. That's right. And this is going to be made of today's presentation will be available on the Moodle. That's correct. Today's presentation will be uploaded on Moodle. Thank you. Thank you very much. Center 127 over to you. Hello good evening ma'am. I'm having two questions as we are conducting the workshop first time so please taught us that whether we should allocate computer system and headphone to the participants. And the second question is that for the activity that we are taking in the afternoon session what kind of preparation we have to do and if the participants are having a question related to that so shall we allow them to write down the questions or to mail or to chat. Okay let me take the second question first about what to do if you have clarifications during the activities. I have answered this question once before so again let me repeat that if there are any clarifications needed during the activities the participants can ask the coordinator and the coordinator can relay the clarification to us via the chat that would be the most effective way of communication during the activity. There is no special preparation that you need to do during the activity for the activity because whatever is required will be there on the slide at that particular moment. Your first question was about the computer use. So for some of the activities the computer will be needed mainly to download the material. So if you have a lab next door that will work or if you can have printouts that will also work. We have to allocate per participant computer system. One per every two is fine. Center 1241 NRI Institute of Information Science and Technology Bhopal over to you. Hello ma'am good evening. I have two questions my first question is that that when you will upload the schedule on Moodle because participants are not aware with this schedule of that program. My second question is today itself and my second question is when you will upload activities on Moodle so that we can take printout and we can distribute whenever a session is going on. We will try to do it by tomorrow afternoon. Center 1223 RBS Engineering Bichpuri Uttar Pradesh. Good evening ma'am. I already got the answer of one question but the second one is whether it is possible to prepare the common NOC for all the participants and upload that or send that at the later stage or not. So please send the hard copy to IIT Bombay and thanks for not repeating a question that was for your first comment. For the second question yes please send the hard copy to IIT Bombay. So a single NOC is sufficient please send the hard copy to us with all the participants names on it. Center 1254 over to you. Hello good evening ma'am. Ma'am my question is related to the permission letter. Actually some participant do not upload their permission letter at the site. They have submitted to me. Okay I am going to have to request you to hold off questions about the permission letter till we end the session because again that's an administrative issue and my colleagues will be able to help you they'll at least give you an email address or so but I won't I'll be able to help you only with technical matters related to the workshop. So you'll have to wait for another 10 minutes. We will take questions for another 10 minutes till 5.15 and then if you still have further questions you can ask them over Moodle and we'll get back to you on it. Questions related to administration or Moodle use please wait till after 5.15. Center 1218 Bansal Institute of Engineering and Technology. The question is is there any need of a computer system? I have answered this question I think at least about 8 times by now. Yes for some of the activities computer system is required. Center 1175 Truba College of Science and Technology Bhopal over to you. Good evening madam. Madam I have a single query is the online registration is over. So some participants still wants to join this workshop. So is there any provision for offline registration? Sorry we don't have any more open reservations for this workshop. We don't have any more open reservations. Registrations did end earlier. So we don't have on-spot registration or any more open registration. 1043 Sarvajanik College of Engineering over to you. Good afternoon ma'am. I have three questions. Can you hear me? Yes please ask your questions one by one. Okay I didn't get the list of participants who are confirmed for this workshop at my center. Second thing you said that forcefully you say about a pre-workshops assignment upload by participants. But how can we see which participants has already uploaded? The name of the participant is the name of the participant is there but as a coordinator what you can do is send out an email or tell all the participants that they need to do it. The name of the participant does come up as to who has submitted it and who next to the name next to the submission itself. That does show up on moodle. Okay and one more madam question. That will be two dates on the assignment 31st January is the last date for submission and 1st February also. It is 1st February. The last date for submission is 1st February. So let me just check where you surfed. Two dates are mentioned over it. That's why that is a confusion with the participant. It is 1st February so they have until tomorrow. Okay ma'am. Center 1283 over to you. Yes ma'am well the same question almost but just I want to ask that if the participant misses suppose some of the participants already have submitted they uploaded their pre-workshops assignment but some are left yet. If they are unable to do it in time then what will happen? Won't they be registered? Okay see the thing is if I am not sure why they are unable to upload the assignment because the assignment has been available and it's access it should be accessible by all. What we are saying is if they don't upload it it's no it's not of any use for them to come to the workshop. So as a coordinator you can very strongly tell them that it will be useless for you to attend the workshop if you don't do the assignment so you better do the assignment you still have one more day to finish it. The topics in the workshop and the further activities will not make much sense without the pre-workshop and the other assignments. That was the message. Actually they are saying that they are not getting enough time to actually finish it. They'll have to yeah so they'll have to they'll have to do their best and you'll have to encourage them to do their best. See otherwise they can there's really no not much point coming to the workshop they can save their time and not come on Saturday also you know they really want to save time. No if it if it happens so after the after 2nd February after 2nd February if they want to actually do the response. So will it do? The assignment that is going to be there from 3rd February onwards is to revise is an extension of the pre-workshop assignment. So it will be based on the pre-workshop assignment. So if they have attempted but not been able to complete the pre-workshop assignment and they come they'll just have to do the extension but my guess is it's going to be a little hard for them to do it because it's going to get the assignments are going to get much and more and more harder. If they're not having time now I don't see how they'll have time later. So I think what you can do is just talk to them and see which ones are serious which ones really will be able to do the assignments and encourage them to come and if somebody says that they're not able to do the assignments you can tell them that perhaps they can wait or you know that the workshop won't make sense to them and they won't be benefited if they come simply and without doing the assignments. Okay thank you. Yeah thank you. Center 1094 over to you. Good evening. Yes my question is understood that there is no spot registration but if some PG students are interested to attend the program understand that there is no certificate for them should we allow them to attend? Up to your discretion if you think that they will benefit and they'll be seriously able to participate you will be you you can allow them to do so up to your discretion and whether you have space and so on. Center 1147 Kongu Engineering College over to you. Hello. Yeah hello good evening madam. Madam my question is we have not received that schedule of this workshop if you have to send it soon now we can upload it to all the participants because everyone is waiting for that. We will upload it on Moodle. So but only it did on Moodle not not through that but like exercise it or in the world time because last the workshops and all we have reviewed it but for this workshop we didn't receive so far. It will be uploaded on Moodle you can download it. Because we have to forward it to all. Okay so we'll put it up on a separate sheet and we'll upload it on Moodle you can then forward it to all your participants. Center 117 HVITS Indore over to you. Hello yes good evening madam. Madam my question is it is not a question it is just a question. If you can upload two or three IEEE based papers on Moodle these papers will be helpful to all all the centers so that we can conduct our activities easily. Okay thanks for your suggestion thanks thanks for your suggestion we'll consider the suggestion and barring copyright reasons and all if it works out we'll consider the suggestion and do it after the workshop. Thanks for your suggestion. Center 1163 over to you. Good evening this is our third workshop with you. One suggestion is that the speaker if he or she speaks in a slower pace our people could be able to understand but then when the pace at which they speak is much faster it's difficult to catch what they say especially because sometimes there is a break in the audio video etc. Okay thanks for the comment okay thanks for the first comment let me just respond to that I will keep that in mind and I'll let my colleagues know too but if you're having any problem during the workshop it will be most useful if you let us know through the chat right at that moment that something is going on too fast or there's a break so it's much easier to fix this right on spot so if you find that let's say I'm speaking too fast right now just send us a quick message at that point but I will pass the message to my colleagues also. Yeah thank you the second is we would like to have more interaction because our participants are all very enthusiastic we have a small crowd less than 20 they're all women and we would like to have more interaction chances where we would like to put in our views opinions etc and then another request is can you tell all the remote centers to listen to the other speakers whether they don't repeat the same question over and over again. Okay so thanks I have two suggestions for you for the interaction part one is that you can facilitate and you can lead a discussion within your own session within your own center because especially if you have lively participants and people who are interested so what I request you and encourage you as the coordinator is to pick up some points and maybe even during the lunch hour do a mini discussion and do your own discussion because a lot of the interaction which is going to be useful is peer interaction there's a lot of value in people interacting with their peers so a large amount of the interaction they can get by interacting with each other in the center and with you we do have some venues for discussion from hour and two but you have to realize that there are about six and a half thousand participants on our end and we will try to pay attention to everybody as much as possible but there's really a physical limit here to the time and space but so in order to overcome this issue the first point of having discussions at your own center will work secondly there's a lot of formal time during the activities where we are asking participants to interact with each other and with the coordinator so that's another place where you can encourage these discussions and we can facilitate these discussions. We are doing a lot of discussions among ourselves and we submit our assignments on time but then our group is already a group where we do a discussion where we would like to interact with you especially in thermodynamics what happened was we would we wanted so much to talk to the speakers but then we never got an opportunity so that was what we were looking for but anyhow we wait for an opportunity. I'll take a comment but yeah as I said we have about 200 plus centers now and we'll do our best to get to all the centers. Yeah that's okay that's okay thank you. Okay so let's take one more question and after that all questions we can do an idea. Hello ma'am. Hello ma'am. Center 1239 please go ahead. I am from Manda School of Engineering. Yes hello ma'am. We have become a remote center for the first time so I had a question. Whether I have to send the afternoon statement of all the participants after the workshop? Yes please you have to send it. I repeat the question whether I have to send the afternoon statement for the participants during the two days. Yeah please send it to us sure. Okay ma'am thank you. Thanks for all your questions and I hope the workshop schedule is clear so we'll see you all face to face again on Saturday. Thank you very much.