 I want to speak about idea generation. This has been an idea that has been going on in my mind forever. It started with a fact as I said that online courses is the future. So what is the problem with the online courses and what how we can handle it. So one of the problems is that a class is a group, a physical education is a group. So I need a mechanism by which I can form a group and monitor it. Again when I talk online what is the requirement that the group need not be physically present. Now we all know that there are hundreds of tools which people use to do that for communication. There is whatever you use I do not use any of those. I pick up the phone and talk that is the only communication I have. But there are so many tools. There is video conferencing, there are video chats, there are discussion forums, there are chat rooms. So all these social media or social communication platforms are already available. So why cannot we leverage that and turn it into a group learning environment. So the idea is not to build these tools which are commonly used. But to build an environment on top of the tools which will allow a teacher or a mentor to use it as a means to further the thing. So that has been an idea which I had. I also had an idea as I said I am against teachers. Somebody asked me can a teacherless world really work. But I think the best way going forward at least at a school level is if a 6 standard student mentors a 5 standard student that is the best way out as I can see. So basically anybody who passes some course also has a mentoring job to take the next people. Because it cannot be teacherless. When I say I am against teachers is because the teachers are not good. Teachers have got a job to do. Their spread one is to 60. So when come up with an environment where one person helps other and by the way if you mentor anyone your subject becomes very solid. So you learn in that process also. So e-mentoring has been my thing forever. Then there are these various things that came in. Dr. Fatak when he used to run the CS 101 course. By the way he has not applied for Guinness record but he should get it. He ran a class with what 950 students. Have you seen the convocation hall? No in front of main building just have a look. Sometimes it is open. So his class was conducted there. His class was conducted normally class are 1130 to 1230 because they were in the lecture theatre. Since his classes were there in convocation hall it started at 1140 because 10 minutes people had to walk to get to that class. Just have a look that is where he conducted his classes. Of course that is not feasible unless he had a support of 40 teaching assistants. Now what they have done is after he has ran that memoth course now they have split that course CS 101 is a basic primary requisite for all people who join. It is done in the first year in IIT. It is programming class. So what they have done is half the students will take it in the first semester, half the students will take it in the second. So that was one year when they did everything in first. So anyway later on also he took the class with 500 with about some 20, 20, 30 years but what he used to do was he found that many of the students could not understand English. Anyway all of you know that well to the way you learn in a engineering institute it is a major grit anyway. The way of teaching is different. The way of evaluation is different. It is only problem based. Teachers do not wait for you to understand and all those kind of things. So he found that a lot of people could not understand lectures. So in the first month he used to take lectures specially for Hindi students in Hindi. He can speak fluent Hindi. He said he got educated in Indore now. Hindi is quite good. So he used to do that. Then I thought instead of doing this physical thing would not it be here got 40 TAs remember. So can he not form a group of the Bengali TAs. So he gives a lecture in English and is Bengali TAs takes care of Bengali students, Tamil TAs takes care of Tamil students. We have got like he said IIT Bombay is the whole country all kinds of languages. So this kind of thing will help. I will now have a formal mechanism by which I can what I call it slice and dice. I can slice and dice a group any which way I like. I can have normally in school what do you have. Last schools division A good students division B second best division D all the first. What is that slicing and dicing based on your expected performance it does not work that way but that is what they I do not know whether it is good or not also. Secondly some people think that there should be a mix that is again slicing and dicing. So slicing and dicing is a phenomena which happens in the education all the time. Now there is no mechanism currently where I can slice and dice and open online course and take it away to give a special treatment for slice and dice. If it is if it is a group of extra significant performer well performers I should be able to give them tougher questions. People who are struggling I should be able to form a group and do it separately. There is no such mechanism. So the basic concept of this is I should be able to slice and dice any large learning group into virtual groups and manage their learning in a manner using virtual technology. So that is the basic idea. So you will not be writing any of these tools. You will be writing an interface where a teacher or a mentor or a TA who is not very familiar with all these tools. We will have a wrapper by which he can use these tools. He can extract information about these tools and I am assuming that there is a big fellow sitting at the back like Dr. Fatter or the MOOC faculty who wants to know how is this slices and dices are working. So we need an information back and forth that is what we call as MIS. How well the students are doing. Have you given extra quizzes to them. Again another reason why I wanted to talk to you about is you have to keep your eyes and ears open. When I listen to people I get ideas. Always keep getting ideas and is ripe for getting ideas. Whether you implement it or not you should get into a habit of getting ideas. Blend and MOOC. Nothing but another model. Except now I do not have a group interaction. I have got a physical interaction at the other end. Basically you are slicing and dicing now based on is from this college is from that college. It is still a slicing and dicing. So the examples of slicing and dicing and applicability is that. But you will be doing only integrating tools which you are comfortable with and it is a proof of concept thing. We have to show how it works. And then later on they will integrate it with EDX. So I do not want you to start integrating it with EDX and all right now. The most focus would be to come up with a learning environment which actually allows a group mentor to measure his effectiveness and the effectiveness of the group in terms of learning mechanism. So that is what it is. So though the idea one of the ideas is Dr. Fartuck having TAs and I keep telling everybody whatever Dr. Fartuck does he is not a requirement. He would never take Dr. Fartuck as a requirement value because he always has special requirements. And this is one thing about ideas you have to generalize. Dr. Fartuck's requirements are important because they are stress requirements. But his requirements should be met because they are not he may be half mad but not completely mad. I am completely mad he is half mad. So his requirements are always a special case. So his requirement of teaching Hindi separately is a genuine requirement but it is a special requirement for IIT. It does not happen too much in other places. I think Hindi is probably a good name of requirement every colleges but no colleges 950 people in one class. Now it is about 500 everything. 500 you know is it 500 no CS1 over or how they have broken it further into two professors taking it. They were going to try and make two professors take that programming course. They become manageable 250. Oh that was a great experience when he did that 950. The 40 TAs were formed into teams of I think some 4 or 5 depending on number of questions. Remember 950 questions I would be graded. 950 question papers. And Dr. Fartuck does not use technology. He may be CS he does not use technology. So it forms groups. This group of TAs will solve question number 1. This group of TAs will solve question number 2. This group of TAs will solve question number 3. Then even in question number 1 cut TAs he will have some I think some 20, 30 question papers like the whole thing put in an envelope. So he will open that envelope he will grade all the question ones. He will close the envelope give it to question number 2 group. And then somebody will open it in the end and enter the marks in an excel sheet. Results are to be published 950 of them. I think I got this R.S. to do some work then he stopped teaching. So 950 you cannot handle like this. I think that must be a Guinness record I do not see. Physical lecture of 950 students is too much. But he is a damn good teacher. He has not taught me at all. He was my guide in M.Tech. And you him in B.Tech but he was my guide in M.Tech. And we had a race that I will complete my M.Tech first or I will complete his PhD first. I won. I did it first. No that is that is only because I got a job in state bank. And the state bank insisted that I should have a degree. After joining within one month I am supposed to produce a degree. So I sat here and completed my M.Tech project. Programming project. I had completed academics. I was just too lazy to complete my project. Dr. Fattab is very kind art. He does not go after anybody. And his guide did not go after him. So he took I think 9 years to complete his PhD. I took 4 years to complete my M.Tech. I did not do anything. I did not do anything. That is why group learning is like that. And for upper now many of the projects will be assessment. I think that is a big, big weakness. Very, very big weakness. If assessments are good I do not need teachers. So give me a solid assessment. And I do not care where you learn from now. Why the hell should I care? Are you a good programmer? Solve this test. You are a good programmer. Why should I insist? I should learn only this way and that way. It does not matter. Assessments are big, big weakness. If you can handle that properly we will handle everything. Again I got very different views. I believe in self-assessment more than anything else. So unless you have a desire to learn nobody can push you