TWO - WEEK ISTE Short Term Training Programme (STTP) on Pedagogy for Effective use of ICT in Engineering Education

Introduction

Educational technology is now ubiquitous, however, the potential of these technologies is lost without appropriate pedagogical strategies. Teachers not only need to have a knowledge of which ICT tools are relevant for education, but more importantly how to use them effectively. This training programme focuses on which pedagogical strategies are effective while using ICT tools in a given teaching-learning situation. In this training programme, participants will begin by articulating the objectives for their course, and explore tools appropriate for some pedagogical goals of engineering courses. Participants will learn effective strategies for teaching with these tools. The training programme will give participants several opportunities to apply these strategies to design materials and activities for their courses.

Course content

Topics in the STTP will include:

1. Course planning
1. Developing learning objectives-what, why, how
2. Hierarchy of cognitive levels for learning objectives
3. Concept maps for course planning and corresponding open-source tools
2. Writing effective assessment questions
1. Alignment of assessment to learning objectives
2. Writing higher order assessment questions (Apply, analyze, evaluate, and create levels)
3. Visualizing scientific content
1. Benefits of visualizations such as animation and simulation for engineering teaching & learning
2. How to find suitable visualizations for your course
3. How to effectively teach using visualizations
4. Creating an active-learning classroom
1. Why active-learning and how to achieve it
2. Specific active-learning techniques such as Peer instruction and Think-pair-share
5. Flipped classroom-what, why, how
1. The out-of-class part: videos, Spoken-Tutorials for content
2. The in-class part: activities for students based on above content
6. Promoting student collaboration
1. Benefits of promoting student interaction
2. Tools to promote student collaboration - blogs, wikis, and forums
7. Exploring ET tools
8. Evaluating effectiveness of teaching strategies

Teaching Faculty

Prof. Sahana Murthy
Inter-Disciplinary Programme in Educational Technology, IIT Bombay
http://www.et.iitb.ac.in

Prof. Sridhar Iyer
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay
http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~sri/

Who Should Attend

The faculty colleagues who are presently teaching in Diploma, Engineering and post graduate Science Institutes are eligible to attend this training programme. Science (Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Biology) teachers should be teaching either PG courses (MSc Level) or UG Engineering courses (B.E/B.Tech). MCA teachers are also welcome to attend this. Faculty from Humanities (English, Economics etc) and Management are not eligible. This training programme is only for Faculty. Students are not entitled to attend the course.

Duration and Venue

The duration of the STTP is 2 weeks, which consists of One week in face to face interaction through A-view video transmission at various remote centers; the second component is an online activity which has to be done by the participants. This one week duration of training programme is divided into two parts, i.e

1. The first part of face to face interaction will be from Monday January 05th 2015 to Wednesday January 07th 2015.
2. The second part will be from Monday, January 19th 2015 to Wednesday 21st 2015. The timing of both sessions of the face to face STTP at the remote centers is from 09.00 hrs to 17.00 hrs

The One-week of equivalent full-time work in online mode will be from January 8th to 18th January 2015 and from 22nd - 31st January 2015.

Also, note that the participation certificate will be issued only to those participants who will fulfil all the criteria of completing both the component ie. Online activities and attending face to face interaction through A- View

Criteria for Certification

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Course Fee

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

How to Apply

Those wishing to attend this course should register online at http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/nmeict Enrollment will be strictly online, and no other mode of application will be entertained. The online form contains a list of remote centers. From this list, please select a center close to your institute, where you wish to attend the STTP. The last date for enrollment and for submission of permission letter is 31st December 2014. A list of selected participants will be put up on this website on 01st January 2015. The selected participants will also be informed by an automated email.
LAST DATE FOR ONLINE ENROLLMENT: 31st December, 2014

Accommodation

Remote centers are being funded to provide tea/lunch on each day of the STTP, and for accommodation, wherever available*, for a limited number of outstation participants. Travel reimbursement up to Rs. 1000/- will be paid only to the outstation participants, if the distance travelled from their Institute to the Remote Center is more than 100 kms.
*Accommodation is not guaranteed.

Note

Please note that this STTP is conducted by the e-Outreach project of IIT Bombay, under the National Mission on Education through ICT. Live recording of the course and other created contents will be released under Open Source through a portal. The recorded CD/DVD of the course lectures will be available for distribution at cost, to any individual/ institution. All participants are required to sign an authorization for such release of contents contributed by them during and after the STTP. Recognition and citation will naturally be made for all contributors.

Address For Communication

Dr Mukta Atrey
Sr. Project Manager
Project T10kT under NMEICT
T10kT Lab
Kanwal Rekhi Bldg. Basement
Dept of Computer Science& Engineering
IIT Bombay
Mumbai 400 076
Phone: 022-2576-4989 (O)