3 day Pedagogy Workshop on Teaching Thermodynamics

IIT Bombay has conducted many large-scale teacher training workshops under the Train 10,000 Teachers (T10KT) programme, sponsored by the National Mission on Education through ICT (NMEICT), MoE, Govt. of India, and trained over 2,00,000 teachers. 

We are all witnessing an increasing need to use online teaching-learning processes. The face-to-face interactions combined with online mechanisms are referred to as blended-MOOC offerings. Interactions can also happen remotely through video conferencing. This workshop is designed to train our teachers on Thermodynamics. 

This workshop is a joint initiative of the Knowledge Incubation TEQIP III (KITE), Parimal and Pramod Chaudhari Centre for Learning and Teaching (PPCCLT) and Teaching Learning Centre, ICT at IIT Bombay, under 'Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching' (PMMMNMTT), through Ministry of Education, Government of India. IIT Bombay will conduct a series of pedagogy workshops on various subjects. We will use our MOOC platform IITBombayX and some video conferencing tools for live interactions.

Methodology of the Workshop

A MOOC course ME209x Thermodynamics is already developed and offered to student-learners on IITBombayX. The content of that course covering different topics will be made available to participants of this workshop. This is primarily for participants to revise their own knowledge and become familiar with the approach of teaching the course. To ensure that participants have carried out such revisions, quizzes will be held on a few specific topics during the workshop. The live sessions will begin with an introduction on pedagogy for teaching in blended mode, followed by one session each on how to teach a few selected topics. There will be a concluding session on conducting online assessments.

In this workshop, we deal with the pedagogy for effective teaching of Thermodynamics. The topics covered in this course are:

• Basic concepts and definitions
• The work interaction
• The first law, energy and the heat interaction
• The zeroth law, temperature and scales of temperature
• The second law, thermodynamic temperature scales and entropy
• Open thermodynamic systems (will be covered if time permits)

The course content of ME209x, which include the recorded video lectures, slides, and practice problems, will be made available to participants to carry out this revision online. The material can be later used by participants for their own teaching. Submissions made by every participant will also be released in Open Source under CC-BY-SA license.

This workshop also focuses on Understanding the pedagogy of teaching of this course in online/blended mode. 

Participants will attend live sessions explaining the suggested method of revision, for understanding teaching pedagogy for each of the few selected topics, and for conducting online assessment.