Projects - [ Design and Development]

Key Features:

• Conceptualised, designed and produced using principles of analogical thinking and situated learning.

• Designed using processes of ADDIE and principles of Lernaer Centric MOOC.  

• Produced using a triple camera setup and post-processed on DaVinci Resolve.

• Published on the Swayam NPTEL National Repository for Engineering MOOCs.

• Produced In-house.

Impact: 

• In the last six years, 33k registered learners have taken it up on Swayam and NPTEL during its July - August reruns.  

• The YouTube playlist for the course has 110k views.

Links:

Runs: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

Youtube Playlist

Key features:

• Designed in remote collaboration and published on Google Sites. 

• Chunked into pedagogical, technological and design support models. 

• Designed using the design thinking processes of low floor, high ceiling and wide walls.

Impact: 

• Most IITs and national universities in India have used this platform. 

• Received 25k Organic Views during the COVID months 

• Led to numerous remote teaching workshops.

• It has been published as a case study in Springer’s global perspective on educational innovation in emergency situations (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99634-5_26)

Key Features:

• Designed in remote collaboration using Google Sites. 

• Chunked into pedagogical, technological and design support models. 

• Designed on the principles of tinkering and playful engagement with scaffolding. 

Impact:

1. It is currently being used in over 10k schools in India. 

2. It has been published as a case study in MIT Press’s Computational Thinking Curricula in K–12, International Implementations (https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14041.003.0016).

3. It has been evaluated in the K-12 AI Curricula in the world by UNESCO available here.

Links:

1. AI Base Module, 

2. AI Step-up Module, 

3. Worksheet

OTHER

• Designing and building a dynamic research space for the new IDP ET Research Lab 

Mr. Herold PC, I and research scholars from our lab, were involved in the planning, designing and constructing a newly allocated space to be converted into a dynamic research lab for IDP in education technology. The primary objective was to create a research lab to be set and used in multiple configurations. The space needed to fulfil the collective research needs, encourage collaboration, and provide research scholars with enough space individually to carry out their research. This involved redevelopment of the internal space, which involved re-designing the layout, electrical distribution and network. Further redesigning the interior selecting mobile, dynamic and purposeful furniture. 

The lab currently caters to about 45 research scholars. It has three primary areas: the research scholars' space with individual seating, which can be configured as a big classroom, conference room, or multi-table collaboration room as required by the activities. The furniture is mobile, and power sockets are also available on the floor, allowing a number of possibilities for how the space can be configured. This room also has a pantry and breakout area with a refrigerator, a microwave and a tea-coffee vending machine. Next were a study room and an observation room with a one-way mirror with privacy screens, which could also be used as small meeting rooms and discussion rooms. Third is a collaborative research scholar lab with round table-based shared seating for the first-year RS, which can also be used as a small classroom or discussion space. 

Services

Designer & Instructor

• Innovation Lab and Grand Challenges Studio for freshmen at Plaksha University

• Demystifying Networking, CS-124, Swayam with NPTEL, 

• Faculty training on AI and active learning strategies DHE Goa

• Young Lego Robotics workshop, IDP ET, IIT Bombay 

• Engineering Design with Lego Mindstorms Workshop, IDP ET, IIT Bombay 

• Data structures for freshmen at Plaksha University 

Designer

• Teaching Online - A self-paced course to start teaching online. (COVID-19 Response)

Instructor / Co-Instructor / Mentor.

• Grand Challenges Impact Lab - India, a study abroad program at the University of Washington, Seattle. 

• Workshop on Teaching Online for RBI

• ET 804 Educational Technology Tools Lab 

• ET 801 Introduction to Educational Technology (Projects)

Teaching assistant.

• Educational App Design - IDP ET, IIT Bombay,

• Methodologies for Effective Teaching-Learning for Faculty Members of CETTM, CETTM, Mumbai, Dec

• Workshop on “Exploratory Questioning and Knowledge Integration Skills.” MPSTME, Vile Parle West, Mumbai.

• ET 611 Tx (IIT Bombay X), ET 612 Tx (IIT Bombay X), ET 621 Tx (IIT Bombay X)  Dec, 2017

Talks:

1. Role of Ethics in compuer science and artificail intelligence education, T4E 2023

2. Webinar on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Kotak Education Foundation, 2021

3. Flipping the classroom with online teaching, NIT Kurukshetra, 2020

4. Online Teaching Tools and Technologies, NIT Kurukshetra, 2020

5. OBS studios for teaching online, IIT Bombay, IIT Goa, IIT Palakad and IIT Kanpur, 2020

6. Nurturing a tinkering approach to engineering design, SIG CHI Bombay Chapter, IIT Bombay, 2019

7. Tinkering Attitude to Artificial Intelligence, NASSCOM, New Delhi, 2018

8. A tinkering approach to engineering design, TCS Innovation Labs, Pune, 2018