 Okay, good morning. The question mark that we are seeing on the screen, nobody likes. Nobody likes the question, but yes, I am here to talk about the question. Basically, question is a very great tool, but we actually utilize question for the sake of only testing. We just have some knowledge, put the question and get it testing. So for the exams and other thing, we have used question, but question can be explored in a different way and can be used as a great tool for the teaching and learning. So how to explore the question for the learning physics, that is what I am going to tell within 5 minutes. Question can be used as a tool for the mass education. And here we have come up with the solution which is called as the actually technically flip classroom. Now flip classroom in a virtual mode, that is the distance mode is nothing but the solution what we called it as a ask a question. So to achieve this, we have come up with the solution, ask a question and ask a question IIT Bombay is basically running from the last 5 years. How to actually join ask a question, this is basically the program for the students. The students sitting at their own distance places can ask question directly to the IIT Bombay faculty every week at 4 o'clock Friday. Every Friday from last 5 years this program is going on. How exactly it can be done is that just you have to post a question on a forum and get connected to an interactive software what we called as a view and later on the question and answer are also available in the archival fashion onto the portal. Now this is a very 1 2 3 stages interactive question answer session which has been happening from the last so many years. Right now what is being required from your side is just a PC with a microphone, a web camera, an internet connectivity and a view software that you already have everything. There are three basic components one is the ask a question portal another is the ask a question forum and then the ask a question a view software. Now you have got a view software the portal is available on the web what you required is just a post a question on the forum and get the answers interactively live and then in archival fashion also. So how to post the question basically go to the forum and post the question but we found that it is also tedious for the people to go to the internet post the question and get the answers. So we have come up with a different ways to post the question and these are being categorized into so many different categories. I will just briefly explain the thing because we are running out of time. Here the questions can be post into these groups or we will go step by step first is the by mobile you can just sms the question and the question will be displayed on to the forum automatically. The other solution which is available is that you can just give the miss call to the mention number and you will get a sms on which it will give the next date when the session is going to happen and which professor is going to participate into that particular session and what is the specialization of that session. There are apps available for almost all the operating system there is Android app available iPhone then windows, blackberry and even Firefox app is also available. Next group is that the app for the tablets are also available now the difference between the phone app and tablet app is that on the tablet app you can get the archived answers also. So if you select any question you can get the video archival answers of those particular questions also. So the answer and the posting both the facilities are available on the tab app they are also available on the Android app then iPhone that is iPad then Firefox and the Windows tablet also. Then browser based solutions are also available you can have a Chrome extension to the post the question or you can have the Chrome extension to find the answers also. So you are working into the browser and you get any question in your mind just post it from the browser itself. No need to come to the forum or everywhere plus the API is also available. This is a small four line code available that you can embed into your college website also and from your college website your student can post the question you can see there are few side photograph also I have put like a Sona Engineering College Elante Institute of Technology COEP Pune whatever. There are other solutions also available like the Facebook app is also available then you can email the question you can have a Windows desktop app available and the COV interaction that is the courses on view is a portal wherein there are some courses of delivered by IIT Bombay professors are archived on to the video format. Now this video format lectures when you are seeing you can post question at the bottom so the question bar is available at the bottom so while seeing any course as a video if you have got question post from the bottom. Now suppose you don't want to have the all this type of gadget you want some offline solutions available we have archived all the question into the CD formats. There are CDs available wherein all the questions and answers in video form are available. You are also not interested in going for the CDs you want again a dynamic solution we have got the SD card available and even we have got the flash drive means pen drive based solutions also available. But you are not also interested in all the set of questions we have got thousands of questions answered today so we have got the question and answer sheets this is a one single PDF file in the PDF file itself video plays and you can share one question with any other person these are question answer sheet this is a single question in a CD PDF form having the video answers. So these are the different type of connect how they are performing and just going fast we started physics last year right now more than 50 sessions we have completed and going very well more than 60 sessions rather than we also get the best government initiative into the education segment award for ask a question 2012 and these are the numbers which are available with the ask a question. So this is a very quick recap of the ask a question what we have done you may have received the packets in which if you want to become a remote center the registration form and a small browser has been given plus you have been given one form which is the expression of interest is your institute interested you just feel the form we are set a help desk outside so you can just go and submit this form to them even the details are also available over there you can discuss with the people there are the banner and poster also available outside. I just play a small video ask a question is a unique question and answer series in the field of engineering and science which provides an open access to the responses of IIT Bombay faculty members to the conceptual questions posted by learners nationwide. The students have access to instructional material but they have doubts they don't know to ask there is a shortage of teachers and IIT Bombay is in a position to answer at least some of those questions. The National Education Day Shree Kapil Sibble Honorable Minister of Human Resources and Development Communication and Information Technology Government of India launched this initiative. Very exciting to have an opportunity where the young students can interact with you. Some of their doubts and have a very very informed discussion. I think it will be a whole revolution in learning. This was the first time nationwide learners got an opportunity to interact live with the IIT Bombay faculty members and clarify their doubts. It's a very useful channel. It permits people to place their doubts on to the internet or ask them live from a panel of experts. These questions are then answered in a session typically held once a week. The live interactive interface has four quadrants. The teacher video. The student video for face-to-face interaction ensuring better communication. The whiteboard for better explanation. The chat to provide an opportunity for each student to be heard. The learners can ask their question online during the live session or post them on the forum. The faculty member gives a reply during an online live interactive session. These responses are archived and made available to the learners on the forum. The content is available online free of cost at low bandwidth anytime anywhere to everyone. IIT Bombay's initiative of ask a question plays a very important role by way of ensuring guaranteed access to a physical teacher. Bare minimum infrastructure is required at the learner's end. A personal computer, a headphone with microphone, a web cam, an internet connection and a web conferencing software. I must say the concept is a good one and also the technical infrastructure is excellent and you know very suitable for the intended purpose. 30th June 2011 on the occasion of its 25th session ask a question released its first collection of archived question and answer series in the form of a video TVT. 60 remote centers connected live to interact with the IIT Bombay faculty members and to clarify their doubts. It is a very good experience to know what type of questions different people have. We do get opportunities to talk to large audiences in our regular classrooms but then it is a pleasure to know the questions that come from different parts of India. The enthusiasm of the faculty members and their desire to contribute in this national mission was commendable. 29th March 2012 marks the celebration of the 50th session of ask a question. A Q&A repository with more than 650 questions and answers was released by the hands of Padmashree Dr. D. B. Patil. I hope the students use the archiving feature so that questions which have been asked earlier need not be raised again. They should simply visit the archives and check whether the question or similar question has been asked and what was the answer given if not by me by anyone else at some time? It's been a very interesting experience when we started at the beginning and then we find that the number of participants on the other end actually keep growing because I find that you know they could get answers from the domain experts on very specific questions that they either send us ahead of time or they ask us during the time that we actually interact with the students. These efforts were recognized. The World Education Summit 2012 awarded ask a question IIT Bombay Initiative as the best government sector initiative in education at New Delhi on 23rd July 2012. I found the questions to be quite thought-provoking and I particularly enjoyed interacting with all these students from all over the country. Previously also lots of students used to write to me and I used to respond to them by email but thanks to the ask a question program now many of these questions are answered and the videos are available and whenever a student writes to me I simply refer them to the web page of talk to a teacher. It's an excellent program. I must congratulate Professor Kannan Makhdalyat for conceiving this. On 10th October 2012 ask a question celebrated its 75th session. This milestone was marked with the launch of a new portal. The questions and answers were archived on the basis of topic and live sessions. To connect to the learners multiple free and open modes to post a question were initiated. Features like SMS a question allows learners to post a question through SMS. The questions can be posted from any handset at 97697 94525. Another mode is through email. The learners can post their questions. The ask a question forum has a huge collection of question and answers. The forum archives the responses in video format. Mobile app allows learners to post a question any time from their Android phones. Ask a question feature on Android tablet or Akash provides access to the collective knowledge contained in the ask a question forum. A collaborative effort between the courses on view portal and ask a question forum to clarify their doubts while viewing the live classroom recorded courses. The portal provides free access to some of the selected graduate and postgraduate courses taught at IIT Bombay. The question posted through all these modes are received on the forum. The celebration was marked with the release of DVD containing question and answer sheet, a collection of 1,000 video recorded questions and answers. To propagate ask a question. Questionathon, an online marathon of asking conceptual questions was organized. The questions were invited in electrical, electronics, electronics and telecommunication, instrumentation, industrial electronics, power system, information technology, microelectronic in the field of science and engineering at the graduate and postgraduate levels. Questionathon received an overwhelming response. More than 3,000 questions were received. With the generous support from the talk to a teacher, an initiative of national mission on education through ICT and IIT Bombay. Recently ask a question has completed 100 live question and answer sessions. Archive more than 1,200 conceptual question and answer in the forum. Over 400 questions answered during the live interactive session. More than 30 faculty members from IIT Bombay are actively involved, benefitted over 36,000 individuals. Over 1,400 individuals are registered on the forum. More than 75 educational institutes or organizations are actively participating as remote centres. I think two important things happen as a consequence of this session. One is we get to understand better the thinking process of students all over the country. Secondly, I think it gives a lot of confidence to an average student in the country, by average I don't mean average in ability but any student in any place in that sense. A student feels much more comfortable in being able to interact with a wider section of faculty in the country and I think this initiative is a very important beginning in that direction. Ask a question has recently distributed its API which can be embedded on any website. It allows the learner to post a question to IIT Bombay faculty members. The questions posed through this API get displayed on the ask a question IIT Bombay forum automatically. Ask a questions have been in the electrical engineering department and the success of this has led to now opening up and starting these programs in other areas where IIT Bombay has strength. Ask a question has reached an important milestone today but this is only the beginning. With the support and continuous feedback from its users, ask a question will update and enrich its content, develop new features and continue to extend its reach across the nation. For us, every question matters.