COORDINATORS WORKSHOP

A One Week Coordinators Workshop was organized by IIT Bombay on Computer Networking from 5th to 9th May, 2014. The main objective of this workshop was to provide a complete orientation to the Faculty members who will act as Workshop Coordinators during the main workshop which would be held from 30th June to 5th July, 2014 under the project called "Empowerment of Students & Teachers through Synchronous & Asynchronous Instruction". This initiative is part of the National Mission on Education through ICT, supported by MHRD.

Mr. Hansraj Yadav, Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering Department of Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurgaon attended a one week “ISTE Coordinators Workshop on Computer Networking” conducted by IIT Bombay, for empowering teachers of engineering colleges. This workshop was conducted under the T10KT project of IIT Bombay.

Dr. Deepak B. Phatak, Professor, Department of CSE, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay inaugurate the workshop. Prof. Kameswari Chebrolu, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay, covered Introduction, history and Layering, Physical Layer: Theory, Encoding techniques, Link Layer: Framing, Error detection and recovery, Reliability, Multiple Access, Ethernet, Token Ring, Switching, Network Layer: Addressing, Routing, IP, Transport Layer: Reliability and Congestion Control, Application Layer: DNS, Web/HTTP, Email, FTP, Peer-to-peer systems during technical clarification session of computer networking.

Prof. Sridhar Iyer Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, IDP in Educational Technology, IIT Bombay discussed in detail about Think Pair Share: An active learning strategy. He emphasized on this methodology so that students would automatically pay attention. Many topics discussed on Think Pair Strategies for blended MOOC’s model. He performed many hands on session during the lecture to perform the effectiveness of Think Pair Share strategies.

Dr. Mukta Atrey Sr. Project manager, Department of CSE, IIT Bombay, and Ms. Jaya Gaintonde also shared their views. During the lab- sessions various new software related computer networking been demonstrated and some interesting hands on also executed by the technical assistants.

There were a total of 255 coordinators from various engineering colleges across India. Prof. Kameswari Chebrolu congratulated everyone for the successful completion of the workshop and also distributed Certificate of participation to all the participants.