Faculty Members from Department of IT Attended One Day FDP at TCS Noida on 27-July-2016

Three faculty of Department of IT including Prof. Chandra Mani Sharma, Prof. Abhay Ray and Prof. Smita Kansal attended one day FDP program at TCS Noida on Research & Innovation in Teaching using Digital Technology during 8 AM to 6 PM. The FDP was divided into 8 sessions wherein the experts from different campuses of TCS ,across the India,  addressed the participants. There were many distributed iQlasses that were connected together using video conferencing facility. The event was formally kick started at 9:00am with formal introduction of participants and the resource persons.
In the first technical session, the experts from IIT Madras briefed about the NPTEL certification programs. Recently, IIT-M has launched certification programs on various subjects which are opened to everyone with nominal fees of rupees one thousand to appear at the certification exam. For making this initiative successful local chapters are being started at institutes across India. There are currently 600 odd local chapters who are associated with this.
In second session, Dr. Pushpendra Singh from IIITD discussed about various research projects developed by him and his team. These projects are successfully implemented in India. He narrated how the mobile applications using mobile sensors were able to collect data to solve many problems in resource deprived rural areas. He explained his data collection and dissemination application developed for detection of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) used by ASHA workers in Bhatinda, Punjab. While explaining his other project, Dr. Singh discussed how voice channels were used to transfer data in emergency situations. He also motivated the attendee faculty members to follow best teaching practices and technology to make the teaching more effective and useful for students.
There were other useful sessions throughout the day, wherein the experts discussed and demonstrated various interesting predictions and current digital breakthroughs. It was really a nice learning experience and a day full of learning & networking.