1. Technology for Education
Sridhar Iyer
Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engg
Head, Educational Technology and CDEEP
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

2. Existing & emerging technologies: A spectrum
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

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

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

5. Distance Education Program
Started in 2000
Network of remote centers
Grew into larger programs - CDEEP, T10KT, IITBombayX
~100 courses and workshops
~150K teachers trained
Mtech projects

6. Timbaktu Wireless Timbaktu-Wireless problem
Play 1 minute of the video - 3:45 to 4:45.
What did the students learn?

7. OSCAR ~300 interactive visualizations, at school and college levels
Released in Creative Commons licence
~50K downloads
PhD research theses

8. Computer Masti 2007 - Curriculum for teaching Computers in schools
Writing of Books – Grades 1-8
~100K downloads
company – InOpen
2016 – Acquired by NextEducation
Used by ~1000 schools in India

9. Key learnings
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.

10. My Journey in EdTech area – 2010 - 2019

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

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

13. What do we do? – At a glance
Research:
TELoTS: Technology enhanced learning of thinking skills
TUET: Teacher use of educational technologies
EDA: Educational data analytics
EmergE: Emerging technologies
Development:
MOOCs: Massive open online courses – IITBombayX
Trained college teachers, school teachers
Handbooks: Resources for ET researchers and teachers
RMET, LOBE, …
Tools: To support teaching-learning process
iQuE, iSAT, CuVIS, …
Consultancy
Outreach
Sponsored Projects
Sponsored Research Labs

14. Research Area - TELoTS
Integration with Domain Concepts
Design Thinking, Engg Estimation, Troubleshooting, …
Pedagogy and Learning Environments
Thinking Skills

15. TELoTS example – Engg Estimation
Play Mettle video
First 10 seconds and
last 10 seconds
PhD Theses

16. TELoTS Summary TELoTS Teaching Learning Technology Pedagogy
Model: LePAThS
TELoTS
Simulative manipulations, personalized feedback
Learning environments

17. Research Area – Teacher Use of Ed Tech

18. TUET example
Zoom adjoining infographic!
PhD theses

19. TUET Summary TUET Teaching Learning Technology Pedagogy Analytics
Learner Centric
MOOC model
TUET
Analytics
Learning environments

20. Research Area - Exploring Emerging Technologies
Goal: Explore emerging tech to identify pedagogical usefulness, recommendations for best practice.
StereoChem

21. Personalized and Adaptive Feedback
Research Area – Educational Data Analytics
Cognition
Affective States
Attention
Metacognition
Motivation
Learner/User Model
Personalized and Adaptive Feedback

22. Key learnings Strong pedagogy + meaningful technology trumps
Sophisticated technology + mediocre pedagogy

23. Development work - Handbooks

24. Development work - Tools
Emerging from PhD Theses
iSAT
CuVIS
iQuE

25. Outreach Training workshops Mentoring workshops
Strong Alumni participation
Conferences

26. T4E conference – Technology for Education
TENTH IEEE CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGY FOR EDUCATION (T4E) 2019
Dec , 2019, Goa, India
Paper submission deadline - July 18th
Themes:
Pedagogical Strategies and Interventions for Technology-Enhanced Learning
Technologies to Improve Access to Education
Development of Technologies to Support Education

27. Upcoming MOOC

28. Summary: What are our students trained in?
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

29. Other EdTech related projects at IIT Bombay
National Mission projects (MHRD)
NPTEL
IITBombayX
Spoken Tutorial
Virtual Labs
eYantra
Centers
Center for Distance Engineering Education Programmes
Parimal and Pramod Chaudhari Center for Learning and Teaching

30. Key learnings
In education, the scaling problem is not solved by taking a generalized solution to all, but by:
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.

31. Thank You