IIT BOMBAY Technology for Education Sridhar Iyer Professor

IIT BOMBAY Technology for Education Sridhar Iyer Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engg Head, Educational Technology and CDEEP Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Ed. Tech @ IITB

Existing & emerging technologies: A spectrum • • • IIT BOMBAY Information and communication technologies Display and user interface Computational technologies Internet technologies AI based technologies Simulation and modelling tools Technology Roadmap Education, Technology Vision 2035, TIFAC CSI Tech. Next India 2018 2

Existing & emerging technologies: Examples Animations Simulations Games 3 D printing Mobile apps MOOCs Augmented Reality Virtual worlds Multi-touch interface Wearable technologies Gesture recognition CSI Tech. Next India 2018 IIT BOMBAY Context aware technologies Learning analytics Adaptation & personalization Natural language recognition 3

My Journey in Ed. Tech area – 1999 - 2009 IIT BOMBAY • Distance Education Program: Teaching, Applied networking research • Timbaktu Wireless: Field work, Project based learning • OSCAR: Interactive visualizations repository, Ed. Tech research • Computer Masti: Teaching computers in schools, Industry connect Ed. Tech @ IITB 4

Distance Education Program IIT BOMBAY Started in 2000 Network of remote centers Grew into larger programs CDEEP, T 10 KT, IITBombay. X ~100 courses and workshops ~150 K teachers trained Mtech projects Ed. Tech @ IITB 5

Timbaktu Wireless IIT BOMBAY Timbaktu-Wireless problem ● Play 1 minute of the video 3: 45 to 4: 45. What did the students learn? Ed. Tech @ IITB 6

OSCAR IIT BOMBAY ~300 interactive visualizations, at school and college levels Released in Creative Commons licence ~50 K downloads Ph. D research theses Ed. Tech @ IITB 7

Computer Masti IIT BOMBAY 2007 - Curriculum for teaching Computers in schools Writing of Books – Grades 1 -8 ~100 K downloads 2009 - company – In. Open 2016 – Acquired by Next. Education Used by ~1000 schools in India Ed. Tech @ IITB 8

Key learnings IIT BOMBAY It is not sufficient for us to simply adopt technologies and methods being used elsewhere; We need to train researchers to create educational technologies that are suitable for our local contexts. We need to empower teachers to adapt technologies for their students’ needs. Ed. Tech @ IITB 9

My Journey in Ed. Tech area – 2010 - 2019 Ed. Tech @ IITB IIT BOMBAY 10

Educational Technology, IIT Bombay IIT BOMBAY Inter-Disciplinary Program, started 2010 - 5 Core faculty - Associate faculty from other departments - 25 Ph. D research Scholars; 12 Ph. Ds graduated - Starting an M. Tech program in 2019 - Includes 2 months internship/field work Ed. Tech @ IITB 11

What is Educational Technology? Adaptive and Personalized Tutoring Systems Makerspace Games Eye Tracking IIT BOMBAY Technology of Education Virtual Reality • Creation and use of. Augmented Pedagogy & Technology for individual and. Teaching-Learning strategies for student collaborative learning and engagement • MOOCs Use of Peer Discussion Learning environments • Focus is on “What to do” with/without technology Assessment Analytics Ed. Tech @ IITB 12

What do we do? – At a glance IIT BOMBAY Research: - TELo. TS: Technology enhanced learning of thinking skills TUET: Teacher use of educational technologies EDA: Educational data analytics Emerg. E: Emerging technologies Development: - MOOCs: Massive open online courses – IITBombay. X - Trained 5000+ college teachers, 5000+ school teachers - Handbooks: Resources for ET researchers and teachers - RMET, LOBE, … - Tools: To support teaching-learning process - i. Qu. E, i. SAT, Cu. VIS, … Ed. Tech @ IITB Consultancy Outreach Sponsored Projects Sponsored Research Labs 13

Research Area - TELo. TS IIT BOMBAY Int Do egrat ma ion in C wi onc th ept s Design Thinking, Engg Estimation, Troubleshooting, … En and gy ago ing s Ped rn nt Lea onme vir Thinking Skills Ed. Tech @ IITB 14

TELo. TS example – Engg Estimation IIT BOMBAY Play Mettle video First 10 seconds and last 10 seconds Ph. D Theses Ed. Tech @ IITB 15

TELo. TS Summary IIT BOMBAY Pedagogy Teaching TELo. TS Learning environments Model: Le. PATh. S Learning Simulative manipulations, personalized feedback Technology Ed. Tech @ IITB 16

Research Area – Teacher Use of Ed Tech Ed. Tech @ IITB IIT BOMBAY 17

TUET example IIT BOMBAY Zoom adjoining infographic! Ph. D theses Ed. Tech @ IITB 18

TUET Summary IIT BOMBAY Teaching Learning environments Pedagogy Learner Centric MOOC model TUET Learning Analytics Technology Ed. Tech @ IITB 19

Research Area - Exploring Emerging Technologies IIT BOMBAY Goal: Explore emerging tech to identify pedagogical usefulness, recommendations for best practice. Stereo. Chem Ed. Tech @ IITB 20

Research Area – Educational Data Analytics IIT BOMBAY Cognition Metacognition Motivation Affective States Learner/ User Model Personalized and Adaptive Feedback Attention Ed. Tech @ IITB 21

Key learnings IIT BOMBAY Strong pedagogy + meaningful technology trumps Sophisticated technology + mediocre pedagogy Ed. Tech @ IITB 22

Development work - Handbooks Ed. Tech @ IITB IIT BOMBAY 23

Development work - Tools IIT BOMBAY Emerging from Ph. D Theses • i. SAT • Cu. VIS • i. Qu. E Ed. Tech @ IITB 24

Outreach IIT BOMBAY • Training workshops • Mentoring workshops • Strong Alumni participation • Conferences Ed. Tech @ IITB 25

T 4 E conference – Technology for Education IIT BOMBAY TENTH IEEE CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGY FOR EDUCATION (T 4 E) 2019 Dec 9 - 11, 2019, Goa, India http: //t 4 e 2019. unigoa. ac. in Paper submission deadline - July 18 th Themes: • Pedagogical Strategies and Interventions for Technology-Enhanced Learning • Technologies to Improve Access to Education • Development of Technologies to Support Education Ed. Tech @ IITB 26

Upcoming MOOC IIT BOMBAY Ed. Tech @ IITB 27

Summary: What are our students trained in? IIT BOMBAY • Theories of learning and pedagogy • Design and evaluation of learning environments that effectively integrate pedagogy and technology, including face-to-face and online/remote settings • Research methodologies, application of statistical methods, multimodal and mixed-method data analysis • Work collaboratively on complex interdisciplinary projects Good fit for: Learning & Development roles; Training-related products; Research & Evaluation of socio-technology projects. Ed. Tech @ IITB 28

Other Ed. Tech related projects at IIT Bombay IIT BOMBAY National Mission projects (MHRD) ▪ NPTEL ▪ IITBombay. X ▪ Spoken Tutorial ▪ Virtual Labs ▪ e. Yantra Centers ▪ Center for Distance Engineering Education Programmes ▪ Parimal and Pramod Chaudhari Center for Learning and Teaching Ed. Tech @ IITB 29

Key learnings IIT BOMBAY In education, the scaling problem is not solved by taking a generalized solution to all, but by: (i) innovating a large number of varied local solutions and making them available to all, and (ii) empowering local adaptation and contextualization of these solutions, through technological facilitation and pedagogical training. Ed. Tech @ IITB 30

IIT BOMBAY Thank You www. et. iitb. ac. in Ed. Tech @ IITB 31