Mumbai Chapter the second meeting for 2010.

The IITM Alumni Association Mumbai Chapter is pleased to announce the second meeting for 2010.

The meetings are open to alumni from all the IITs. You and your spouse are cordially invited to attend.

Date:	07/August/2010 (First Saturday)
Time:	7:00PM - 10:00PM
Venue:	Hotel Transit, opp. Hotel Orchid Near Chatrapati Shivaji Airport, Domestic Terminal Tel. (022) + 26128882 (please see [1] for map)
AGENDA
7:00PM - 7:30PM	Registration and Networking
7:30PM - 8:30PM	"Synchronous Distance Learning"
	by Prof. Deepak B. Phatak
	Subrao Nilekani Chair Professor,
	Department of Computer Science and Engineering of IIT Bombay
	Prof. Phatak will share the initiatives and successes of the
	"Synchronous Distance Learning" project.
	Please see below [2] for details.
8:30PM - 9:00PM	Question & Answer Session
9:00PM - 10:00PM	Dinner and Networking

Cover charge of Rs. 400/delegate and Rs. 300 for spouse. Refreshments and dinner will be served.

Please RSVP at the following link

to help us know if you plan to attend. Do leave your name and a contact phone number when you register.

We look forward to seeing you all.

Please feel free to contact me (arun.k.khan <at> gmail <dot> com or

Rakesh Roy ( royrox <at> gmail <dot> com ) for further information.

Thanks and best regards,

Arun Khan and Rakesh Roy

Secretary and Jt. Secretary IITMAA - Mumbai Chapter

[1] Map to Hotel Orchid

<http://http://maps.google.com/?q=19.097173,72.854202>

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[2] Details about the "Synchronous Distance Learning" project

Prof. Phatak has successfully implemented a 1,000 teacher synchronous training programme for college teachers around the country. He has used

EDUSAT and A-VIEW, developed by Amrita University, to establish two way audio-video communication. Lectures delivered from IIT Bombay are

received at about 30 remote centres located in different parts of the country. Teachers from neighbouring colleges come to these remote

centres to participate in the course. A clicker system (both hardware and software) has been developed by Prof. Phatak's team to help improve

the interaction and to get a quick feedback on how well the lectures are understood. This is the first time a clicker based instructional

methodology is used in a distributed setting to impart synchronous education. Through this medium, Prof. Phatak has taught a basic course

on C programming twice. He hopes to get good faculty members from different disciplines to teach other basic subjects.

This training programme has been covered in Times of India

This training programme and A-VIEW are funded by the National