Two-Week ISTE STTP on Effective Mentoring of Online Students in Signals and Systems -WEE210.1x

Introduction

A new series of T10KT workshops/STTPs (Short Term Training Programs) under the aegis of ISTE, are planned by IIT Bombay to train teachers in mentoring students who are learning a subject using an online course. Participating teachers will receive training in using discussion forums, preparing illustrative examples, and arranging live interactive sessions for students in their own colleges, who take such Online Courses. Initially, such workshops will run concurrently with the corresponding MOOCs offered by IIT Bombay. Participants are expected to mentor the students of their own college, who have enrolled for the corresponding MOOC. They are expected to conduct short weekly sessions for students.

Participating teachers will get the usual ISTE certificate for a two week STTP. Please note that the physical duration of each such workshop/STTP, will be 10 to 12 weeks. Participating teachers will be required to put in an equivalent of one day’s work (8 hours) per week. This work will include online and face-to-face components. The online activity will be in the form of assignments. The face-to-face component will have two parts.

The first part will be fortnightly A-View meetings with IIT faculty (2 hours).
The second will be local mentoring sessions with students from your own college (2 hours per week).

Also note that there is no Remote Centre involved in these workshops. Each participating teacher will have to work from one’s own college. As such, there is no provision of any TA/DA to be paid..

Teachers will be trained and evaluated in:

Becoming familiar with a platform for MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)
Preparing and posting responses in the discussion forums
Preparing supplementary examples on different topics
Translating allocated audio transcripts of video clips into a chosen Indian language

Providing face-to-face mentoring through discussion sessions (1 hour/week), and participating in interactive Q & A sessions with IIT faculty using A-View, for the benefit of those students belonging to the participants' colleges, who have also registered for the corresponding course.

Please read the registration/enrolment process given below. You are requested to complete the one-time-registration first, and then enroll for any of these workshops. You will also have to independently register on the IITBombayX site once, using the same email-id. Note that these workshops/STTPs will require you to use the NMEICT Moodle, as well as IITBombayX platform for your online activities.

Course content

The following topics will be taught to students in the MOOC (WEE210.1x). Teachers participating in this STTP are expected to know them well.All the assignments will be related to effective teaching of these topics.

Introduction to Signals and Systems.

Properties, Definitions and Examples of Signals.

Continuous Time and Discrete Time Linear shift Invariant Systems.

System responses, Fourier Series, Fourier Transform, DTFT and DFT.

Laplace transforms, eigen functions, Poles and Zeroes.

Z-transforms.

State-space analysis, state transition matrix.

Sampling Theorem.

Application of Signals and Systems in Filtering and Communication.

Advanced topics : Short-time Fourier Transform and Wavelets

All teachers participating in this T10KT workshop will have to submit their assignments in workshop Moodle and / or on IITBombayX platform as stipulated.

Teaching Faculty

Prof. Vikram Gadre, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay

Who Should Attend

The participant must be a teacher currently working with any recognized college in India , teaching this subject.

Duration and Venue

The duration of this online course is for Ten weeks. This course will be conducted online on IITBombayX website and it will start from 12th March 2015.

Participating teachers will get the usual ISTE certificate for a two week STTP. Please note that the physical duration of each such workshop/STTP, will be 10 to 12 weeks. Participating teachers will be required to put in an equivalent of one day’s work (8 hours) per week. This work will include online and face-to-face components. The online activity will be in the form of assignments. The face-to-face component will have two parts.

The first part will be fortnightly A-View meetings with IIT faculty (2 hours).
The second will be local mentoring sessions with students from your own college (2 hours per week).

Also note that there is no Remote Centre involved in these workshops. Each participating teacher will have to work from one’s own college. As such, there is no provision of any TA/DA to be paid.

Note that these workshops/STTPs will require you to use the NMEICT Moodle, as well as IITBombayX platform for your online activities.

LAST DATE FOR ONLINE ENROLLMENT: 27th March, 2015

Criteria for Certification

Test

Course Fee

Since the STTP is funded by the National Mission on Education through ICT (MHRD, Government of India), there is no course fee for participation.

How to Apply

Registration Process on IITB - NMEICT Website: ( http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/nmeict )
Step 1 . Sign Up as New User: (If you have registered for any workshops of NMEICT-T10KT conducted by IIT Bombay then directly go to step 2):

In the sign up page, you need to fill the required personal and institute information, and submit the form. As soon as you complete the e-mail verification, your account will be created on our IITB NMEICT website. This is a one-time process. After logging in to IITB NMEICT website, you can enroll for any Workshop/STTP, the same login-id should be used to enroll for any ISTE STTPs conducted by IIT Bombay, in future.

Step 2 . Sign up as Already Registered User: (If your account has already been created, directly go to step 3)

You have to activate your account with your registered email-id which you have used in the past workshops/STTPs. Upon activation, you will receive an email asking you to create a password, and then to check your personal and institute details. Update your profile wherever required, and submit the form. Your account will now be created on our website. This is a one-time process. After logging in to IITB NMEICT website, you can enroll for any Workshop/STTP. The same login-id should be used to enroll for any ISTE STTPs conducted by IIT Bombay, in the future.

Step 3 .Enrolment for a workshop : Login to your account on IITB NMEICT website, and enroll for the desired workshop/STTP.

[Note that the enrollment will begin from 28 January, for these three workshops / STTPs being offered now]

Registration Process on IITBombayX Website : ( https:// www.iitbombayx.in )

After successful registration on IITB NMEICT website, you will have to do one-time registration on the IITBombayX website: https://www.iitbombayx.in . You must use the same email-id, which you have used for IITB NMEICT website. After successful registration on the IITBombayX website, you will be enrolled by our e-outreach team, for the workshop course on IITBombayX, corresponding to your chosen T10KT workshop.

LAST DATE FOR ONLINE ENROLLMENT: 27th March, 2015

Accommodation

Since this workshop is online and will not be conducted in any remote center, hence there is no accommodation .

Note

Please note that this STTP is conducted under the T10KT project of IIT Bombay. Live recording of the course and other created content would be released under Open Source, through a portal. The recorded CD/DVD of the course lectures would be available for distribution at cost, to any individual/ institution. All participants are required to sign a No Objection certificate for such release of contents contributed by them during and after the STTP. All contributors will be acknowledged.

Address For Communication

Dr. Mukta Atrey,
Sr. Project Manager,
Department of CSE, Kanwal Rekhi Building,
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,
Mumbai - 400 076.
Tel.: +91-22-2576 4989
Fax: +91-22-2572 0022
Email: eoutreach@it.iitb.ac.in

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