Tech Insights with Mayur Patil

Many thanks to SDME - Management, Principal - Dr S Mohan Kumar and Head - CSE - Prof. J V Vadavi, Remote Center Co-ordinator - Prof. Smitesh.D.P for organizing 2-DAY ISTE WORKSHOP ON RESEARCH METHODS IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY ( National Mission on Education through ICT (MHRD, Govt. of India) , at CSE Dept seminar hall, SDMCET  conducted by IIT-Bombay on  February 2nd, 2013 and February 9th, 2013. Course Content Topics in the workshop included: What are different types of research problems in educational technology (ET) How to read and analyze a research paper in educational technology (ET) How to convert your innovative teaching and learning idea into a research study How to plan, conduct and analyze your experimental study in educational technology What are various techniques to evaluate the effectiveness of your study How to create robust measurement instruments (such as questionnaires) Click here for more details

Here are some of the open course-ware, which I have come across recently, by various sources (attending workshops, students recommended, browsing out of interest...) 1)  Khan Academy -  https://www.khanacademy.org/ 2)  Coursera -  Take the World's Best Courses, Online, For Free -     http://www.lensoo.com/#!/giveaway 3)  Lensoo - enhance your career, make money, network and socialize! -  http://www.lensoo.com/#!/giveaway 4)  MIT Open Course-ware -  http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/ 5)  MOOC - Massive Open Online Course - http://www.mooc.ca/courses.htm 6) Udacity -  Learn. Think. Do -   https://www.udacity.com/courses 7) Stanford Online -  http://online.stanford.edu/courses 8) Open Learn -  The home of free learning   from The Open University -  http://www.open.edu/openlearn/ 9)  OpenLearning  -  Public Courses -...

Aakash Android Application Programming Workshop for Students National Mission on Education through ICT (MHRD, Govt. of India) 23rd-24th Feb and 2nd-3rd March 2013 Android Apps Programming: Course Content   Getting Started with Android. Setting up Eclipse for Android Software Development. Android Building Blocks. Layouts and UI Control. Android Application Resources. Introduction to Animation and Graphics. Data Storage. Web Application Development. Publishing your Application. Eligibility : Only students and members of designated Aakash Project Centers are eligible. These are remote centers of our e-outreach program, which have been nominated as `Aakash Project Centers` by IIT Bombay. Please click here to see the list of Aakash Remote Centres. Participants should be students in their pre-final year preferably from CS/IT streams. Registered participants are required to attend the workshop at their respective Institutes only. Registr...