2012 11 05 Dbp Introduction to Aakash Coord Wshop

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Aakash for education

Dr Deepak B Phatak

Subrao Nilekani Chair Professor

Department of CSE, Kanwal Rekhi Building

IIT Bombay

Orientation Workshop for Aakash coordinators

IIT Bombay, Monday 5 November 2012

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Dr. Deepak B Phatak 2

IIT BOMBA

Quality Education through ICT

Background

Distance Education at IIT B

TIFAC sponsored workshops

Train 1000 Teacher Plan


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Methodology

Conduct 2-week ISTE Workshops incore Engg. Subjects

Identify Remote Centres (RC),

where 35-50 teachers attend

Lectures from IIT Bombay,

tutorials/labs at RC


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Targets and Achievement

Started Train 1000 Teachersprogram in 2009

Up to May 2012, trained 9400

teachers in 10 workshops.

Planned a mega workshop


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Mega Workshop

Workshop on ResearchMethodologies in July 2012

8400 Teachers, 1000 Students

Excellent feedback



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T10KT Proposal to MHRD

Scale up and empower 10000Teachers at a time

Model is refined to have

Another Hub (IITKGP)

10 Nodal Centres (NCs)

500 Remote Centres(RCs)



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T10KT Proposal

Nodal Centres to be establishednurtured to be future hubs

Remote Centres to be

strengthened in the technology

infrastructure and operations

Further refinement of Padagogy



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Tablet Computers

Tablets are primarily AccessDevices

connect to internet

Apple ipad in 2010

Tablets likely to proliferate


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Indias LCAD project

Tablets for quality education Affordability important

Main plan

Offer tablets at subsidy

First phase

Demonstrate usage


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History of Aakash

Launched in October 2011 IIT Bombay was given the phase I

project in March 2011

Order placed in May 2012

Specs upgraded further

Aakash-2 Launch on 11th Nov. 2012

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Aakash plans at IIT Bombay

250 colleges are R&D partnersEach college to use Aakash for

Class room teaching

Final year projects

To create innovative educational

applications and contents

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Disruptive Changes

Education System Needs to changeits focus

Current model Fixed Time

What is needed by students isFixed minimum Learning


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Emerging Trends

Coursera, Khan AcademySpoken Tutorials

New Pedagogy to ensure

Focus on learning

- Not on lecture/delivery


FUTURE


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FUTURE

Are we ready?

Are we even trying to be ready?


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FUTURE

Aakash project is one such attempt

You all will facilitate creation of a

new teaching-learning pardigm

BEST WISHES


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Present

Meanwhile, let us at least fixwhat we can

Empower teachers

Not just subject knowledge, butalso: methods, skills, problem

solving, motivation, andpertinent technology


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2012 11 05 Dbp Introduction to Aakash Coord Wshop