Date: August 20-21, 2011
Venue: Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Participants profile: Faculty members of various technical institutions of GBTU. They came from Civil Engineering discipline, Environmental Science, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Professional Communication, Marketing Management, Laser Systems etc.
Branches focused: The disciplines covered in the workshop were Civil Engineering and Core Sciences including Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics
Number of participants :140
Participant List:
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Workshop Announcement: Click Here
Speakers Profile:
- Professor S.C. Srivastava, NPTEL Coordinator, IIT Kanpur
- Prof. Ajith Chaturvedi ,Dean of Research and Development, IIT Kanpur
- Prof. Mangala Sunder, National Coordinator, NPTEL
- Prof. Kripa Shanker, Vice Chancellor, GBTU
- Prof. Satyaki Roy, NPTEL Coordinator, IIT Kanpur
- Prof. Gautam Biswas (Director, CMERI – CSIR Durgapur)
Session Speakers:
Day |
GROUP 1 |
GROUP 2 |
| Day1 |
- Dr. Animesh Das (CE, IIT Kanpur)
- Dr. Bharat Lohani (CE, IIT Kanpur),
Dr. Ashu Jain (CE, IIT Kanpur)
- Dr.Arup Kumar Sarma(CE,IIT Guwahati)
|
- Dr. M.K. Kadalbajoo (Maths and Stats, IIT Kanpur) made a presentation on Numerical Solution of ODEs.
- Dr. Madhav Ranganathan on Mathematics for Chemistry (Chemistry, IIT Kanpur)
- Dr. Prabha Sharma on Linear Programming and Extensions (Dept. of Computer Science Engineering and Information Teachnology, ITM University, Gourgaon)
|
| DAY 2 |
- Dr. Purenendu Bose (CE, IIT Kanpur)
- Dr. Mukesh Sharma (CE, IIT Kanpur)
- Dr. Gautam Biswas (Director, CMERI – CSIR Durgapur)
|
- Dr. Manoj K. Harbola (Physics, IIT Kanpur)
- Dr. S. Sundar Manoharan (Chemistry, IIT Kanpur)
- Dr. H.C. Verma (Physics, IIT Kanpur)
|
**Group 1: Civil Engineering Group 2: Core Science (Physics, Chemistry and, Mathematics)
Agenda: Click Here
Summary:
Two day National Workshop on Deployment and Use of NPTEL Courses was conducted at IIT Kanpur during Aug 20 -21, 2011.The workshop started on August 20th with the Inaugural function. Faculty members(Civil Engineering discipline, Environmental Science, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Professional Communication, Marketing Management, Laser Systems) of various technical institutions of GBTU attended the workshop.
Members present on the stage during the Inauguration function
- Professor S.C. Srivastava, NPTEL Coordinator, IIT Kanpur
- Prof. Ajith Chaturvedi ,Dean of Research and Development, IIT Kanpur
- Prof. Mangala Sunder, National Coordinator, NPTEL
- Prof. Kripa Shanker, Vice Chancellor, GBTU
- Prof. Satyaki Roy, NPTEL Coordinator, IIT Kanpur
During the inauguration, Professor S.C. Srivastava, NPTEL Coordinator, IIT Kanpur, gave a welcome address and discussed about the workshop and its aims.
The Dean of Research and Development, IIT Kanpur, Prof. Ajith Chaturvedi, also gave a welcome address. He urged the participants to have interaction among faculty in the workshop, since it was aimed to be a two-way participation.
The objectives of NPTEL Phase 1 AND 2 were then discussed by Prof. Mangala Sunder, National Coordinator, NPTEL. He explained how NPTEL started off with content development, training and interacting with everyone in the country. He highlighted the objectives of NPTEL, which is to create course contents with no gap in content and no break in learning, in all four years of undergraduate program and the post graduate program. He also stressed the importance of The NPTEL course material, which is a supplement and not a replacement. He expressed how the experience of the best teachers has been brought to the users. He also requested the audience to take the course systems and add their values to them, in the form of discussions, workshops, forums etc., expressing their opinions freely in order to enhance the vision and efforts of NPTEL.
The chief guest Prof. Kripa Shanker, Vice Chancellor, GBTU, addressed the members of the workshop stating that cores of parents, teachers and students wanted their institutes to be like IITs. He also stated that workshop like this could provide a stage for all to come forward and openly expressly their views and that they should participate wholeheartedly. He urged everybody to help turn 2012 in a different direction for technical education. Prof. Satyaki Roy, NPTEL Coordinator, IIT Kanpur gave a vote of thanks.
The session was then taken over by Prof. Mangala Sunder to discuss in depth about NPTEL courses of Phase 1 and Phase 2. He stated that the curriculum was designed using IIT syllabi, in order to build the necessary layers or ramp to reach the highest level of learning. He highlighted that NPTEL is the largest technical video lecture repository on higher education in the world on open access and there could be no compromise on the educational quality. He also highlighted the area focused on NPTEL project, which is
1. Higher education
2. Professional education
3. Distance education and
4. Continuous learning.
He concluded his speech by stating NPTEL’s objective, which is to devise and guide reforms that will transform India into a strong and vibrant knowledge economy.
The session was divided into parallel streams- Group 1 comprised Civil Engineering discipline and Group 2 comprised Core Sciences stream including Physics , Chemistry and ,Mathematics. The session details are stated above .These sessions were followed by a computer lab or practice session in the computer centre for about 2 hours. All the NPTEL courses of Phase 1 were viewed by the participants. There was an overwhelming response of participants in the session, where they mainly viewed the courses on which the lectures were being presented and they also tried to understand the animations, figures and method of uploading the course materials. Many felt that practical or lab demonstrations of the video lectures would be more useful. They also wanted all the courses to be downloadable. By and large, the participants utilized their lab session quite effectively and constructively
The Second day was also followed by two parallel sessions held similarly, followed by feedback and concluding session, which was chaired by Prof. Gautam Biswas (Director, CMERI – CSIR Durgapur) and Prof. Mangala Sunder (National Coordinator, NPTEL IIT Madras). After the concluding remarks, a vote of thanks was offered to Prof. Kripa Shanker to his initiation to send faculty member from various institutions of GBTU. Also thanked Prof. Mangala Sunder, Prof. Gautam Biswas, resource faculties, the participants, the NPTEL Coordinators of IIT Kanpur, the Media Technology Centre and the entire staff of NPTEL IIT Kanpur, for making the workshop successful. The feedback was on the whole quite positive and encouraging. The national workshop on deployment and use of NPTEL Courses held in IIT Kanpur thus passed off eventfully.
Feedback:
- The majority of the participants stated that they came to know about the NPTEL workshop by announcement in their respective institutions, and some also came to know through internet.
- An overwhelming majority wanted their respective colleges to adopt NPTEL Content Courses. They expressed their interest to request their senior colleagues, the management and the director of their respective institutions to opt NPTEL course curriculum for teaching students.
- Participants found the entire workshop quite useful and an eye- opener.
Participants Overview
- 15.21% were from Maths
- 13.04 %- were from Physics
- 9.42% were from Mechanical Engineering
- 0.01 % were from management, Environment and Electricals
- 0.007 % were from Biotechnology
- 0.021% were from Electricals
- 0.5% were from CSE
- 0.101% were from Core sciences
- 0.094% were from Civil
- 0.115 %were from chemistry
- 0.0434 % were from Applied Sciences
Regarding participation in NPTEL activities:
- 85.05 % of the participants were interested in setting up web based NPTEL discussion forum.
- 74.71 % of the participants also were keen on designing Frequently Asked Questions (FAQS) for NPTEL courses of their interest.
- 79.31 % of the participants were interest in preparing question bank for the NPTEL course of their interest.
- 65.51 % of the participants were happy to be one of the mentor for the online course in the area of their interest
Regarding the current workshop format
- Sequence of presentation :All the participants felt that they were excellent and presented in a systematic manner
- Relevance of presentation: Most found the presentations relevant as they covered the entire topic from their related subject. A few felt that they needed improvement.
- Workshop Organisation: By and large, they were very happy with the organization of the workshop.
- Time to express views / Response to the queries: There were mixed opinions on the time given for expressing their views and answer to their queries, as some felt more should have been allotted to satisfy their queries. But all believed that the queries were well handled.
- Conference venue and Reception / help offered: All were happy with the facilities provided at the conference site and with the infrastructure.
- Format of the workshop: Majority of the participants were quite pleased with the format of the current workshop and they did not recommend any alternative for future workshops, except that some subjects of applied sciences could be included, for example psychology, communication etc. along with other areas too, and the time duration of the lectures could be increased as well. Some also wanted to be provided with reference materials related to their subjects in the next workshop. A few participants felt that since the workshop aimed for GBTU faculty members, the GBTU syllabus should be kept in mind while presenting the courses.
- Participants were happy with the workshop venue and showed interest in participation in similar workshops in the future.
