Engineering education for everyone a distance education experiment at IIT Bombay

Author

Moudgalya, Kannan M. ; Phatak, Deepak B. ; Shevgaonkar, R.K.

Author_Institution

Centre for Distance Eng. Educ. Programme, IIT Bombay, Mumbai

fYear

2008

fDate

22-25 Oct. 2008

Abstract

Distance education at IIT Bombay is carried out through live and free transmission of its own courses, through satellite, video conference and webcast. Distance education is a partial solution to improve the dismal state of engineering education in India. Optionally, the transmission is also available under value added modes, using powerful features, such as, video course on demand and the learning management system, moodle. A brief description of the nonthesis masterpsilas degree, known as postgraduate diploma of IIT Bombay, PGDIIT, available through the distance mode, is given. The article concludes with a summary of the national programme on technology enhanced learning, NPTEL, a joint effort of all IITs and IISc. The students, staff and faculty of IIT Bombay enthusiastically support distance education.

Keywords

distance learning; educational aids; educational courses; engineering education; courses; distance education experiment; engineering education; learning management system; satellite transmission; video conferencing; video course on demand; Distance learning; Educational institutions; Educational technology; Energy management; Engineering education; Least squares approximation; Satellites; Space technology; Video on demand; Videoconference; LMS; NPTEL; PGDIIT; free courses; moodle; satellite transmission; video conferencing; webcast;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 2008. FIE 2008. 38th Annual

Conference_Location

Saratoga Springs, NY

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1969-2

Electronic_ISBN

0190-5848

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2008.4720683

Filename

4720683