Distance Education Program

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Distance Education Program
Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
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Towards Quality Engineering Education

• 14th December 2005
• Prof. M. U. Deshpande
• Professor
• Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology
• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

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Objectives of DEP

• Reaching participants across the country
• Simulating traditional classroom environment with
  live interaction
• Providing a cost-effective and scalable solution

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DEP Features

• Dissemination of expert IIT knowledge
• Concept centered post graduate courses for
  Teachers and Industry Professionals
• Synchronous broadcast of lectures to all centers
• Live classroom interaction
• Classes/Transmission in mornings and evenings
  (outside working hours) to suit target user group.

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Quality Features of Post Graduate Education

• Development of Critical Thinking Faculty
• Knowledge for Development
• Acquire - Awareness
• Absorb - Comprehension
• - Competency
• Apply - Mastery
• Disseminate - Expertise

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Pedagogical Aspects - 1

• Higher Technical Education at advance levels
  characterized by
• Rigor Consistent internal logic of theory,
  assumptions, principles, laws to deductive
  process
• Metaphor Relation to real/known
  experience/generalizing from specific cases as
  inductive process

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Pedagogical Aspects - 2

• Critical Thinking
• Rational response to complex situations
• All data not available/no single clear-cut
  answers
• Justification by integration of known parameters
  processes assumptions.

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Technology In Education - 1

• Learning
• Comprehension - Motivation/Desire/Pre requisite
• Recall - Recognize/Connection to previous
  experience
• Creative Thinking - Organization, Elaboration,
  Exploration of unknown

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Technology In Education - 2

• Technology Aid to comprehension
• Aid to recall
• Enable teacher to aid presentation
• Assist student to explore/recall/reflect
• Better relevance, Effectiveness, Efficiency

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GenesisTechnology Enabled PG courses in
Information Technology

• In late 90s, major paradigm changes
• Bursting of software bubble/shifts
• Down turn in world economy
• IT industry professional-retraining
• Huge increase in IT courses/colleges and demand
  for IT teachers.

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IT Learning Needs Scenario

• For Industry Professionals
• Intelligent networks, Mobile computing, Embedded
  Systems
• For IT Teachers Distributed systems, Digital
  Signal Processing, Foundation Algorithm
• These are high end Know why courses

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Learner Group Background

• Industry Professionals Teachers
• From all Engg. Disciplines(CS/EE shortage)
• Varied work experience in industry
• Fresh graduates from all branches as IT teachers
• Industry professionals in metro, major cities
• College teachers in small/remote towns
• Normal face to face PG course 20 students.

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Why IITs Courses

• IIT Facultys Engagement
• In Research
• Trends and Directions
• In Consultancy
• Ground level problems
• In Hardware/Software Product Development
• - Business Incubators

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Curriculum Objectives

• Courses pegged at Know Why
• Course work reflects and integrates real life
  situation
• Apply learners prior learning
• Meaning to studies through incisive assignments,
  tests and exams

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Why SatelliteINSAT 3A, KU - BAND

1. Proven technology 10,000 VSATS working in
   Industry, ATM, Banks, Stock Exchanges
2. Optimum use of Bandwidth in IP Multicast
3. Can reach remotest regions
4. VSAT network professionally managed by HCL Comnet

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VSAT Vs. Leased Line

• VSAT
• Footprint across the country
• High initial investment 20L
• High reliability Uptime of 99.5
• No recurring b/w costs
• Leased Line
• Option available only at areas with an existing
  VSAT hub
• Low initial investment 6L
• Dependant on the Local Hub
• Recurring b/w costs

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Multicast VSAT
Set up at IITB
Control VSAT
Agilis Up/Down Converter
AUPC
Gilat IDU
Viasat chassis
Cisco Router
SH PC
SH PC
Mic
MC8003
Avaya Switch
Studio PC
Studio PC
MC8003
RC PC
Camera
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Set up at Remote Centre
Multicast VSAT
Control VSAT
Agilis Up/Down Converter
AUPC
Gilat IDU
Viasat chassis
Cisco Router
Avaya Switch
RC PC
Projector
Screen
PC
Vigo
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Leased Line Remote Centre Setup
IITB
Router
Hub
MC8003
Modem
MTNL
ISDN Backup
RC-1
Vigo
Router
Modem
Hub
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VSAT Deployment
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Options for Participation

• CEP certification courses
• PGDIIT in IT
• CEP/DEP short term courses
• Teach only mode

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Fall 2005 (July-November 2005)

• Courses offered
• Computer Networks
• Network Security
• Digital Signal Processing / wavelets
• Advanced Programming in C
• Corporate Strategy
• Mobile Computing
• Entrepreneurship
• Systems Analysis Design
• Digital Control
• IT Project Management

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Current Remote Centers

• KReSIT, IIT Bombay
• CDAC, Navi Mumbai
• SGSITS, Indore
• VNIT, Nagpur
• MGM, Nanded
• STES, Pune
• MBT, Mumbai
• MBT, Pune

• M.J.College, Jalgaon
• Goa University, Goa
• Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd., Pune
• Nirma Institute of Technoogy, Ahmedabad
• Veeramata Jijabai Technological Institute, Mumbai

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Economic Model

• Working Professionals
• Credit Rs.10,000 Non Credit Rs.7,000
• Regular Students and Teachers
• Credit Rs.6,000 Non Credit Rs.4,000
• Revenue Sharing
• IITB Remote Center 60 40

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Economic Model for remote center

• Four to six courses per semester
• Eight to twelve courses per year
• 50 to 500 registrations
• Mixed constitutions (Credit, Audit, )
• For 100 Registrations _at_ Rs 5000
• 40 share is Rs. 2,00,000 per year

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DEP- Growth line
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To Conclude IT Enhancement Focus

• On teacher in class
• Through digital imaging support
• On access to individual student
• For knowledge/data bases, case study archives
• Faculty web pages, recorded lectures
• On delivery channels for duplicating
• Group learning experience with full interactivity

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To Conclude IT Enhancement Focus (Contd.)

• On Benefits to Institutes
• Faculty and senior students get advanced level
  lectures and benchmark teaching style
• Courses can be treated as additional electives
• Some relief to teacher shortage problem
• High level courses for Research background for
  PhD aspirants
• Industry participants to courses can aid on
  campus activities.

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Thank You
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