Hello, this is Reggie Pinkston. Missed that I wanna go fast. And you're here because you want to learn how to flip $110 to $840 monthly. Let's get to it. Nine, two, five, killer.com. I wanna go fast. This episode is brought to you by GMBUagency.com. We buy houses in any condition, in any situation. Sell your house as is for a fair cash price and close whenever works for you. The condition of your house does not matter. You won't have to fix a thing. You don't have to wait for a home inspection or pay for repairs. You pay no fees, no realtor commissions, no closing costs. We pay them for you. Within 24 hours, we'll send you an offer. You decide if the offer is right for you or not. No pressure. All right, like and subscribe if you appreciate the fact that I'm going to give you a 100% real, affordable and super easy way to make money online right here, right now. No paid courses or upsells needed. Just follow the ultimate guide. And if you have any questions, simply ask below. Either myself or an assistant will be glad to answer you. Just be patient, all right? Now, when I say this is gonna be a super easy way to make money online, I really, really mean it. It doesn't matter if you're young, old, super smart or slow as molasses. You can do this and make money today. Yes, I said today. All you have to do is take action after you watch this video. And I want you to take action. And I do not want you to get the shiny object syndrome. Please do not catch the shiny object syndrome, all right? You can do this manually like a job or you can fully automate it so it works while you're sleeping. Just be sure to watch this video front to back. I'm gonna say it again. Watch the whole video from front to back so you don't miss anything because we're gonna give you the whole breakdown. Give you everything you need so you can go out and do this today immediately after you finish watching this video, all right? And you're gonna know everything you need to get started immediately. So how are we gonna make the money, Roz? Well, that's easy. We're going to make money with PLR. Now, hold on. We're not gonna do it the regular way. We're gonna be doing it with a massive twist that takes all the selling and persuading out of it. And some of y'all might not know what PLR is. I'm gonna flash some definitions up on the screen so you can check that out. But basically it's, let me use an example. Someone will write a book. They will sell you the book for $5 and then tell you that you could put your name on it as the author and you could resell the book as many times as you want and make as much money as you want. That's it in a nutshell. That's a very brief synopsis or a brief description or definition of it, if you will. Getting techy ain't I? Okay, so yeah, so that's basically what PLR is. Private label rights. And that can apply to software, books, training videos, whatever, that's PLR. So that's how we're gonna do it. But we're gonna do it with a twist. We're not gonna do it like how everybody else is doing it, all right? Now I'm gonna give you several ways that you can make money with PLR products, but I don't want you to do any of them. Remember, I don't want you to get shiny object syndrome. You're gonna get some good ideas. I know the juices are going to start flowing, but I just want you to know the power of what you're going to be putting your hands on, all right? So these are several ways that you can make money with PLR products. You can resell it as it is at any price you want. So if they sold you a PLR product for $5, you can immediately sell it the same day for $10 if you choose. It's your choice or sell it for a dollar. It's your choice unless they have restrictions. Some PLRs have restrictions on the sales price that you can have like for instance, they might say you can't sell it no lower than this price. But I've never seen a PLR product say that you can't sell it over a certain price. So you're open right there, but you could resell it as is. And that means you don't alter it enough at all, which I suggest you at least put your name on it as the author or creator, all right? Because that is one of the simple rights that it's given to you as a PLR, all right? Second way you can make money with a PLR is you can transform it, meaning like you could turn a report to a book, you could turn a book to training videos, you could turn training videos into a membership, coaching or mentoring, all right? Like you could just take the knowledge and switch it over. Let me give you an example. Say for instance, you bought a book or report that was packed with information, right? But you know, video sells more or it's gonna get more attention or it's gonna get more traction. So you want it to be video, you go to Fiverr, you get someone to record an audio version of your book or report, and then you put some visuals over it, slap it together as a video and resell it for $97 and you just bought the report for $5 or $10, see? Remember, you're not gonna do that. We're not gonna do that, all right? No shiny object syndrome for you, my friend. All right, you can use the PLRs as a lead magnet or as Frank Kern calls them, an ethical bribe. So you can build an email list, that's the third way. The fourth way is you can make money as an affiliate and how you use the PLR is you can use the PLR product as bonuses for anyone that purchases an affiliate item that you're marketing through your link. So they buy such and such program that you're promoting and you add about six PLR products that are associated or closely related to the product that they're already interested in buying. So it's like a support, so you get some extra. You get it, you get it, I know you get it, all right? Five, you can use them as bonus offers to give away with a product that you created yourself. Just make sure it's related again, all right? So if you make something, you could add some extra bonuses, just wrap some PLRs with it. You make it look boof, you know? For y'all that don't know what boof mean, that means it looks bigger, it looks better, all right? You know what I'm talking about. All right, so number six, you could create a discount store and buy the PLRs for whatever price and sell everything for $3 apiece. That's for an example. Unless, of course, they have that minimum pricing thing there. So you could just open like your own dollar store or your own Fiverr store or something like that.  So you can have your own discount store with PLR products in them. And there's many platforms that you could set this up with but we're not gonna discuss none of that because remember, we don't want you to get shiny object syndrome. We don't want you to get shiny object syndrome. We want you to concentrate on this twist of a way to make money with PLR products and this powerful private label right method I'm gonna show you is the PLR shock and awe method. I'll say it again. The PLR shock and awe method. Let's look up shock and awe. I know a lot of you know what shock and awe means and I don't mean to make anybody feel uncomfortable when I'm discussing shock and awe because I know when I first heard it but this is the shock and awe method. Let's read what shock and awe means. Technically known as rapid dominance is a tactic based on the use of overwhelming power and spectacular displays of force to paralyze the enemy's perception of the battlefield and destroy their will to fight. Well, with this method, we're going to destroy their will to not buy. They're going to want to buy, okay? Now you might be asking how we're gonna do this. Just hold on, I'm gonna get into it, all right? Okay, so you could probably use this strategy in any niche, in any niche. You know the word. I'm not even gonna, let's move on. But I'm going to be specifically targeting the make money online niche. Was that better? Okay, all right. So instead of me telling you how I think you should do it, I'm going to show you how I did it. First, I found more than 100 plus quality PLR products and bundled them all together on one webpage. And they're all make money online, traffic, list building, list management, softwares, plugins, everything to do with make money online. PLR products, bundled them together, over a hundred of them and put them on one page. The downloads for the products, the sales pages for the products if you wanna sell them one by one and everything that comes with the products all on one page and I keep adding to it, right? Don't worry if that sounds like a lot of work because I'm gonna show you how you're not gonna have to do none of that. You're gonna be able to skip past all of that, all right? So keep watching, it's gonna be a lot easier for you. You're not gonna have to pay a website programmer to do this for you like I did. I'm gonna cut all that out for you, all right? Second thing is I put that page behind a paywall of a membership site and I put a single super affordable price on the whole pack. So that's 100 plus quality items that were about like say like 10 to $20 a piece if you sold them separately and okay, we're gonna get, we're going too fast, right? Okay, actually yeah, I'm gonna give it to you. Okay, so it's 100 plus items, quality PLR products that come with master resale rights and you know what master resale rights are? The definition is right here, hold on. Master resale rights, even better than PLR rights. Even better than PLR rights, baby, all right? So yeah, master resale rights, that means you can, you purchase it. You could resell it right out the door like you take possession of it. You could sell it right out the door to somebody else and they could resell it to somebody else and you all get to pick your own prices. I'm gonna say that one more time. Okay, so let me sum it up again. I got, I took 100 plus quality PLR products and I'm still adding to the list. It's on one page, all right? And I made sure they all have MRR, which is master resale rights, which means that you can purchase the product or purchase the pack and you can immediately sell it to somebody else and they can immediately do the same. They don't have to do any work, no nothing. Everything is there. Or if they want you to go and separate it, take the pieces out, you know what I'm saying? But they got 100 plus products that they can do that with.  You're gonna use the PLR shock and awe method. Remember? All right, we're on the same page. I think we're on the same page. I think you're seeing it. Like even if, and I'm saying I'm gonna be selling it for $15 to $25, depends on when you catch it, right? And even if, let's say, and I suggest you do the same if you purchase it. I suggest you sell it for no more than $25. But it's your right. You can sell it for whatever you want. But if you sold it from 15 to 25, if you sold it at $25, at 100 products, remember there's more than 100 products in this pack. At 100 products, at $25, you're getting each product for 25 cent a piece. 25 cent a piece. Okay, now if you can't flip that, slam your laptop shut. Throw your smartphone in the toilet. Just get rid of it, just get rid of it. This life ain't for you. Okay, but yeah, but you get it. All right, and the way I set up the page is set up so you can just throw your own brand on it on the entire package and resell the whole thing. Because remember, I made sure all the products in it have master resell rights. And I'm throwing some more bonuses on top of it. What? It's the shock and all method, man. It's the shock and all method, man. As a bonus, I'm throwing in there, it's free. I'm throwing in the Drop Service Black Book, which is basically some Drop Service workers that I use for products that I put together and some services that I use online to generate income. But remember, I don't want you to get shiny object syndrome. I'm just throwing it in there as a bonus. I want you to start making money with this strategy today. So, yeah, sort of. Well, I'm gonna throw it up on the page so you can see what it looks like, all right? But now let's get to how you're going to market this product, all right? And I'm gonna give you a couple ways, a couple ideas. And this is where you can get creative. Everything else is already set in place for you. I already got the page for you. The products are already picked out for you. They're already in a certain niche and they're in a high profit niche too. So that's already worked out for you.  That's done for you, all right? But this is where you can get a little creative. And the reason why I leave this a little bit open is because I've done trainings in the past and whenever I get too targeted with the training, people tend to lose all creativity and do the exact same thing I did. And when I say the exact same thing, I mean they don't change anything. And what happens when you do that is that these social media sites will flag the technique and strategy and then it's nobody can use it. I've done this with Craigslist marketing techniques. I've done this with Facebook marketing techniques. And every time I give it to the T, people ruin it. So I'm gonna give you some guidelines to work with. But I'm pretty sure you can figure out. Matter of fact, I'm gonna give you one way that I don't think they can shut down. And this one is using Facebook, all right? All right, so what you would do is you wanna create a PDF, a simple way to create a PDF. Pre, up. Create a PDF. Busy. Simple way to create a PDF is go to Chrome, go to Slides, Google Slides, click that. And I have a couple of examples right here. I'm gonna show you an example that I use for credit coaching that I have available, which is free by the way. Yeah, so I call this the PDF flyer method. So, it's basically you're making a flyer. And you know, if you ever tried to market on Facebook that they have limits to how many times you can post the same thing. Well, one simple way to get around that is to just re or spin the text that you're doing, but don't do it, don't use an automatic spinner. Spin it yourself. So, you're saying, you're using different words, but you're saying the same thing. Then you could get away with posting the same thing a lot more times. The only thing with that is if you attach it to a link, they'll start to track the link and they'll limit you in, I believe, like 20 to 25 posts. But this PDF flyer technique will get you past that limit so you can get your link out there a lot more times on Facebook, all right? And this is the PDF flyer method. So, you basically build something like this and it doesn't even have to be this fancy. You could just take a blank page, throw some type on there. Let me see. Perfectly, you know what? I'm gonna give you some type to use as a template. I don't want you to do a word for word because trust me, there's gonna be 100 or 1000 people that are gonna be using this same template and if you're using the same wording they are, your account's probably gonna get flagged. So, be creative with the text. I'm just gonna give you, pardon me, a framework to use and you could copy and paste it and then change it, alter it, make sure you change it, make sure you alter it, make sure you change it, make sure you alter it. Okay, but basically you wanna create a PDF.  As you can see right here, this right here has a link in it and matter of fact, let me open up another one. So, open up another one. That's for something else. We're gonna open up the credit coaching joint and this one is two pages. Basically it says free cartel credit coaching. Check out another phone call. Sorry about that, y'all. All right, so free cartel credit coaching. Check out two new hot trainings. Quickly secure, blah, blah, blah, blah. But it has the link right here so you can put a hyperlink on this PDF. That's what's important. I made it two pages, you don't have to do that. You just need one. You just copy and paste the text. You spin it yourself, put it on this PDF flyer. Make sure you put the link there. You hyperlink it, you hyperlink it just in case you don't know how to do that. All you have to do is highlight it like so. Then go to, where is it at? This symbol right here that says insert link. You click that and then it will open up a box like this and then you drop your link there and you click apply. After you're creating, remember you don't have to have all these designs in the background and stuff like that. You can have this on a blank white page. What you're going to want to do after that is go to file, click file, then go to download all right, then go over here to the right. Scroll down till you see PDF, click that and you have just generated a PDF, your PDF flyer. Now what you're going to do with this is you're going to go to Facebook groups. Now these Facebook groups should be affiliate marketing, how to make money online, because you remember the niche one, right? Now if you're doing this, if you don't want to use the package that I have for sale for you right now at $15 to $20, more than likely going to be $15. But if you go for the pack that I got or you don't want to go for the pack I got, if you did it in health, then you would want to do different Facebook groups, right? But for what we're doing right here, we're going to keep on track. Because remember, I wanted to show you how to do this. All have everything done for you as much as possible done for you. This is the ultimate guide, man. This is the ultimate guide. Yeah, so you go to those Facebook groups and you're going to find a selection, like you see discussion, you see there's a couple other different things, announcements, things like that. You want to look for the header in the Facebook groups that says files. You click that and you'll be able to upload the PDF that you just downloaded to your laptop. The flyer you just created with that link on it, you'll be able to upload it to Facebook. And as of this moment of making this video, as long as you don't add any supporting text to it, like what you want to do on your title, when you create your title to your, and even if you downloaded it and you didn't have the proper title yet, what you can do is you could rename the file on your hard drive and make it all caps. So it stands out. This is one way they can't mess with you for using all caps on Facebook. Make it all caps and say make money today technique. Something to that extent, be creative or make money now the real way or super sneaky way to make money or secret money technique, secret money tech. Stop losing, make money now. Make money from any country. Now I'm free balling here, you know what I'm saying, but you can make up your own title. I want you to make up your own title. You don't want to use exactly what I'm saying. Take the ideas I'm throwing out there and mesh it with yours and make something else, right? But you want to make it appealing. The most important part is you want to make it all caps. So they stand out in the list file because when you drop the files, you're going to be in a list of other files. But the thing is when you drop it in a group, yours goes immediately to the top. And no matter how many Facebook posts go in that group, as long as they don't drop a file, your file will always be on the top. So if anybody goes to look at files, they're going to see the text that you put on the title of your PDF flyer and they'll click it and they'll see the text that you have in there. You'll give them a little bit more information about the product. You do not want to overwhelm them with information at this point. You're trying to concentrate on getting them to click the link, but you do not want to be misleading. Okay, do not mislead them because you're gonna be wasting your time, all right? And plus you're gonna have a lot of people coming by and if you got that same title and people start seeing your title and they know that you put BS type joints out there, they're gonna start ignoring you, all right? So make sure the description on the PDF flyer is accurate but attractive. Make sure the text that's on the PDF flyer is attractive and gets them to click the link. And then after that, you can send them either to a webpage that you can make yourself with maybe this video on it. So I just did the video work for you. So you can put it on this webpage. I suggest you don't use nothing like Wix or anything that's cheap, that's free. And the reason why I say that is because I used to teach marketers back in the day how to do this strategy and I saw a better success when they used paid websites and trust me, website is not that expensive, man. Look, website is nothing but like $9 to $3 a month. That's it. You can't afford that, man. Please get a job. I mean, look at it like this. If you get a job, your work shoes for McDonald's gonna cost at least $30 to $40 for some work shoes. So, man, come on, cough it up for the website.  Don't do the free joints. And the reason why I say don't use the free websites is because they normally have like their own links on the website that leads whoever you're drawing your traffic from, it's gonna lead the people away to buy the website that you're using for free. Like Wix will have a button on all your pages. So whenever you send somebody to a page on their free website that you're using, you're getting Wix traffic. See how that works? So don't use those web pages. You wanna use something where the traffic moves directly or you can make your description so good that you can just send them right to the pay link. Like I'm gonna put down below. I'm just gonna send you to the pay link. You know what I'm saying? Because I've already done all the telling you what's there. I told you it's 100 plus PLR products and to make money online or from home niche with a lot of tools on it. Let's see how many tools. Matter of fact, I should have been scrolling like all the different tools on the screen showing you like what's available in there. And yeah, so it was like 20, like something plugins or software pieces, 50 eBooks, 25, it's a lot. It's a lot, all right? So yeah, so you can send them straight to the pay button. And all you do is put it back in the day you would have to get a website but you don't have to if you use the membership page. Use the membership page. It does all the checkout stuff. Like back in the day I used to have to get PayPal. I used to have to make a pay button then put it, install it on a webpage and then make sure it worked on a mobile device. You don't gotta do that right now. You could just use one of these membership sites, put your object or whatever you're selling behind the pay wall and use them for your front page. They even have web pages available on some of the membership platforms. And I'm gonna leave a link to the ones that I suggest you use. Like the one that I use, it's I don't even wanna say the price right now because I made a training before back in the day and I was sending so much traffic to them that their price just kept increasing. So I started looking like I didn't know what I was talking about. Like they were selling the product for like $15 a month. It was like a webpage creator, a landing page creator. Today that landing page creator is selling for $290 a month. So my video that I made for that does not apply anymore. So we're not gonna do that again, all right?  So that's the PDF fly technique on Facebook and that's free traffic. And you could do that a lot of times but you know what I'm saying? You wanna do once per group and just get as many of those Facebook groups under your belt and start going to them.  And then also add your posts in the group. So you're gonna have a, so you can be posting like twice. You can put your regular posts and then you'll put your file, your flyer in the files. All right? So you'll be doubling up. You'll be at least posting like 40 days, I mean 40 posts a day, right? Now that's manually if you do it yourself. There's a way that you can go ahead and employ somebody and I suggest you do this. So you're less being an employee and you're being more of a boss. And because you're doing this, so you can either you want to just make money from home or you want to work less. So if you want to work less, I suggest you go to somewhere like five or SEO clerk or one of these places where you can find you a virtual employee and hire them to go ahead and to do the task that I was just telling you to do. And they can post a flyer and you could simply pay them $1, $2, $5 a day or $5 a week and they can knock that out in probably like an hour or so. It's not gonna take that long, 30 minutes to an hour. That's how long it should be to rip through like 20 to 40 Facebook groups, all right? And so that's the way where you can go ahead and get this so you're not doing the work yourself manually. You can have somebody else doing this for you while you're at work or while you're at the pool with your kids. And if you really want to get freaky, get you two people double, double down. And remember the membership site I'm using, whenever money you make, you can get the money back that day. That's right, you can get paid that day. You know what I'm saying? Again, I'm gonna have that link down below. Lips a little bit ashy, why don't you say something? Okay, so anyway, now the third way, and this is the way, and you can do this with several different platforms.  I would suggest you use a paid platform. Use a paid platform. That way you don't have to worry about checking in on somebody to make sure they're actually doing the work. You don't have to do the work yourself. All you do is input the header, the body text, the link that you want to send them to. You might have to link them to a page. You know what I'm saying? That does a little bit more explaining. Again, you could use this video right here. I'm putting in the creative comments so anybody can use it. If I see it pop up on YouTube's whatever they call it, where they flag it, the copyright joint, I'm not gonna flag you. I'm gonna let you use it. Matter of fact, I even let you monetize the video. All right, so yeah, just use my video. And you can just post it up there. Either you can download it, or you can just install it on the page and use it like that, all right? And if you're watching this video on somebody else's page, just click the button on the page. Click the button on the page. See how I look out for you? All right, but use paid traffic. Like me, I'm gonna be using YouTube paid traffic. I'm using it right now. You're watching the video, hopefully, still. All right, so yeah, paid traffic. So you don't have to monitor anybody and make sure they're working. They'll be working for, the computer will be working for you or the internet will be working for you 24-7. Never get tired. And with YouTube, it's super cheap. I think you could probably get 100 people to see this video or see your page for about a couple dollars. So remember, we said we're gonna show you how to flip $110 into $840 monthly. Well, let's see if we back that up. The membership site, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna go on the high end because we know I want this video to be as evergreen as possible. And right now, I'm paying something. I'm not even gonna say how much I'm paying right now. But it's definitely not $50. But let's just say you paid $50 monthly for your membership platform. Remember, all of them gonna start off with a free trial. So you're gonna either get like 14 days to 30 days to get your money going. I suggest, but when you start to start to membership, you start marketing that day, all right? So you get to use up as much as your free trial as possible. So let's say you spend $50 monthly on your membership when it starts kicking in. And you spend $2 a day because YouTube lets you spend $2 a day if you want. So that's $60 a week. No, $60 a month, you got going. 50 plus 60, that's 110. That's your 110 working.  And if you made three sales that day at $20, you'll have made $60 that day. At 30 days, that's, and you could do the math yourself too on your computer. You could pull up your calculator if you want. At $60 a day, at 30 days, that should be, what is it? 1680? I believe it's 1680, right? That's $1,680. And you're like, well, that sounds way better than what you said. I'm gonna say, you know what? Let's say your luck is real bad and you only do half of that. If you did half of 1680, you'll have made $840 that month. So your $110 investment will turn to at least $840 monthly. That's like a $700 profit. I hope you have liked and subscribed, like and subscribe. All right. And what else can I give you? Yeah, so you show you the 110, the 15 and 60. And again, the membership is gonna cost less than $50. The PLR pack that you're buying, that's a one-time expense. You never pay that again. You get rights to that for a lifetime. So even if you don't use it to make money, which I want you to go out and do it today, I want you to do it now. And then report back, let us know the results. If you have any questions, ask the questions below. But we want you to get results, all right? No cost to buy at all. $15 to $25, that's it, one time. It's probably. So go ahead, get that down below and salute to GMBUagency.com. You have a house you need to sell. They'll be glad to help you out. And if you're interested in sponsorship, you can also check down below as well, all right? So this is Reggie Pinkston. Missed, I wanna go fast and easy. And it is.  Learn, do, then teach.


Good morning. I am very happy to initiate this first face to face interaction with all the 7700 and all participants who have assembled at more than 170 remote centers. So, I would like to utilize the first 10 minutes to interact with few of the remote centers before I begin my formal talk. When I go over to any remote center, since I have not yet spoken, I would like someone from each remote center to quickly comment on what exactly they wish to gain from these 2 faculty development programs which are running back to back. With this I would go over to the D.Y. Patil Institute, Hune, over to you D.Y. Patil. I feel we expect that the students, how to help the students so that they can learn wherever they are and we can help them at any place we ask and we can solve their doubts, they can get their note and they can be in touch globally all around the world. For that reason, I think we have gathered here to attend this FDP. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. I am the Institute of Technology. Thank you. Let me go over to another remote center now. Gitanjali Institute. Okay, okay. Hello sir, good morning sir. Good morning. Sir, actually we are expecting that, okay, by the end of these two workshops, we will be in a position to develop our own curriculums in a modern methodology such that, okay, we can make students to be more eager in learning and make them active in learning and gathering information and self-learning and peacemaking technologies. Okay, thank you so much. Good morning to all of you. By the way, I see a large group assembled there. Let me go over to the next remote center, Shastra University. Over to you, Shastra. Good morning, professor. I am Dr. Badrinath. I am the Director of Training, Placement and School of Management. And this is my first experience with MOOC and it's really interesting, fascinating. Though I am very busy throughout the day during my administrative work, you won't believe after 10 o'clock in the late night, I sit and read after 1 o'clock whenever I find time. So really interesting and in spite of all the arts we want to learn and it's very helpful. The pedagogy is also very useful. I listened to your lecture and other YouTube lectures. I also filed my course journal well before the time. And one thing I just want to share with you that I hosted my course journal but I'm not able to see the response subsequently because hundreds and hundreds of people have given their response. I don't know how to search. I'm very poor in computing. Let me ask, accept honestly. I'm not able to search about the responses I receive from my course journal. I think there is no provision if I'm right. I'm not very sure but there is no provision for searching and checking our own course journal's responses. Thank you so much. I should be visiting Shastra personally during the third interaction that is what tentatively I'm planning or alternatively I might barge in sometime in between. Let's go to the next institution that is Don Bosco College of Engineering. This is the fourth time I am interacting with you and very nice to see you. Whenever I see you I feel very proud as well as I feel motivated. So first thing I would like to say is that expectation from this workshop is used and especially how to think of innovative ideas to attract the students or to make the students motivated towards the learning not from the concept point of view obviously but from the different ways that we can attract the students to help them in their learning methodologies. Thank you sir. Thank you. Thank you so much. Let's go to the Sardar Patel College of Engineering. Good morning sir. My name is Ajay Pujari. I'm from Vidyalankar College. Currently I'm attending from Andheri. So I definitely this is my first time interaction with the MOOCs and I definitely feel that this program will help not only students but also the faculty to a proper way of delivery of the content not only from the conceptual point of view but also from the application point of view and this all things is very much new for us. That is what I believe that will definitely help us to our personal growth as well as our career growth. Thank you so much. Let's go over to... Good morning. Good morning. I'm talking to friends in Namakkal. Yes sir. On behalf of our college we want to thank IIT Bombay for conducting such a wonderful FTP program. So we have registered all the newly appointed faculty sir. They are very freshers to this field. That's why we have registered all of them in this particular FTP program. Our main exception is that all our students are coming from the rural background so we have to really motivate them and we have to introduce them as a wonderful engineer. So I hope this FTP will give such an opportunity for us to develop our students into such a wonderful engineer sir. Thank you so much. Let me just very quickly respond by saying that rural background or urban background does not distinguish between people in terms of their capabilities and achievements. My own colleague Professor Kannan Mokgalya who is a co-PI of this project comes from the town of Namakkal. So there are people from Namakkal who have made their names every day in the world and I'm sure that charged with this FTP your colleagues and others will participate more vigorously in the educational process. Thank you so much. This Bharatwara Institute Aurangabad, over to you. Good morning sir. This is BG Toksha here. What I expect is that all the participants and the colleagues they should use a functional OER and spread this technology to all the students. That is what I expect from this FTP. Very good. Thank you so much. NMIMS Dhulia. Good morning sir. It's Amit Pagai representing the NMIMS Shripur campus. Actually we are all interested to making students more interested in teaching learning processes because one of the discussion forums in the first week represented or highlighted this point that students are not interested in this teaching learning process when we follow the conventional teaching system. That's why using this ICTs we are interested or we are motivated to motivate the students so that they can take part in the actual teaching learning process and they can use this or apply this knowledge to their career. Thank you. Thank you so much. Good morning BMS. Good morning sir. This is Uma Rao representing all the faculty enrolled in this center. So our main expectation is that at the end of the two workshops each one of us should be proficient in use of ICT and we should be able to transform the way engineering education is delivered to the students. Secondly, when we put up a lot of content in the web like in the form of videos etc in our personal websites I personally want a little bit of exposure and clarification on plagiarism aspects and legal implications if any if we post it in our personal websites. Thank you sir. Thank you very much. You make an important point. I might add that tomorrow I am visiting Bangalore and I will be going over to Nitte Meenakshi Institute in the morning session and I will be personally visiting you in the afternoon at around 2 o'clock for just about half an hour. So I look forward to this visit. Thank you so much. Let me go over to the next remote center. This D.Y. Patil Kolapur over to you. Good morning sir. The workshop is very very very helpful for us and it is completely very helpful for all the teaching learning process that we are carrying out here. Okay. Thank you. S.I.E.S. Good morning sir. Good morning. Sir we are very curious to use the technology and modern techniques taught to us in this program for making teaching learning more effective but we also require your help in preparing videos, video lectures in this program as well as one suggestion if you could conduct such programs during our vacation it will be very useful for us because we are finding little bit hectic during our regular schedule and one more request from communication skill faculty more focus on abstract topics such as later writing and comprehension which is an integral part of subject like business communication. Thank you sir. Thank you so much. We are going over to another remote center this supreme knowledge foundation over to you. I would like to thank IIT Bombay for giving us this opportunity to join such an FDP. We look forward to more FDPs in the future especially for these two FDPs we think that we can easily blend ICT with our teaching methodologies like earlier we were more concentrated on the chalk and talk, blackboard, methods of teaching now what we can do is that we can blend ICT online teaching into our course so that the students they can be at par with all other students not only of India but outside India as well. Thank you so much. We will go over to another institution. Valkan College, Solapur over to you Valkan. Good morning one and all good morning sir. I am Dr. S.M. Jagde Professor N.B.N. Sehagard College of Engineering, Solapur I am at Valkan Institute of Engineering and Technology, Solapur right now. Basically I want to get updated myself with the latest tools which are available online videos and whatever the contents are available online because now the learning trains in the students they are changing and we want to adopt these changes and basically we want to learn out of this workshop for coming these two days. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. We go over to Daavangere over to you Daavangere. The participants here expect how to what extent ICT can be implemented in the interdisciplinary team here and additionally the decreasing interest among students to watch videos even if ICT is implemented can there be any suggestions or ways and means of improving motivation amongst the students is also what we are thinking that we can learn something from them. Thank you. Thank you so much. Important point that you make. We'll address that. Adi Shankara Institute, Andhra Pradesh. Adi Shankara College of Engineering and Technology Go Doors are. Thank you very much for making us present on this national platform first of all and definitely it is a curtain riser for many of our faculty related to MOOCs and everything sir. And one of our small intention is like discussion forums and everything are very much helpful in sharing information and getting information also but a college which is placed in a semi urban area and nearly near to the rural areas we need students also to get updated for this sir. If there are any sessions which will be helpful for the students also it will be more helpful. Thank you so much. Important point that you make. Good morning Patak sir. Good morning. With this actually we have been already being very much involved in improving our teaching and learning methodologies through traditional aspect like preparation of lecture notes and all other aspects to the students but from this program using these participants our institution is expected to intake this teaching learning from the traditional method to the next level usage of online material, online teaching methodologies to those rural background students. So that's what we expect that students will be equipped with new level of teaching and learning methodologies. Thank you sir. Thank you so much. Let's go over to TheaGarajar College. Over to you TheaGarajar. Sir actually after the completion of the two FTP program the faculty who are the participant of TheaGarajar College of Engineering remote center able to make the classroom more interesting towards the students and makes the classroom as a learner centric mode. I hope the faculty of this program will use this ICT tools as a aid without losing their meticulous preparation of the content. So I need to share two more comments about the program that we are doing for the past one-half weeks. During the discussion forum the peer reviews are about only the recent comments. So is it possible to limit the peer review to 3 to 5 because most of the faculty they are commenting on the recent post. So that will be helpful to get the feedback of all the posts what we have uploaded in the post box. And as shared by one of the remote center these type of programs could be offered during the vacation. So we could able to do little better than what we are today. Thank you very much sir. Thank you so much. Let's go over to NIT Warangal. Warm greetings from God's own country and we are happy myself Dr. Ambili from the Biotechnology Department. I would like to say that almost all the faculty from our college is attending this program. Over hundreds of us are there here and this has been extremely interesting to us because it's quite unique and new to us. And what we expect from this program is that we can have a better mode of discussion and interaction with students in a better way so that they are not distracted so much by the regular book reading and PowerPoint presentation alone. And this will also help the students who are taking long term medical leave or something because of those reasons not to miss their classes. So and as somebody else and the other remote centers said it would be good if we can have it during the vacation so that we can learn better and that will help us to perform better. Thank you so much sir. Thank you so much. Let me go over to GRIT Kukutpalli. My God, you resemble the, it is as if the entire institute has come over here, over to you. Very happy to see a large number of people. Very good morning. I'm from remote center 1080 number. Myself Deepak, professor of mechanical engineering at Vardhaman College of Engineering Hyderabad. I have enrolled for this FDP program to know various techniques and methods of ICT based teaching learning process. I want to make teaching learning more easy and to understand the students much better, much better and the thing which I wanted I'm able to get here in this FDP. I'm very much thankful to IIT Mumbai that they are considering the needs of the faculty community to upgrade ourselves to come to the level of faculty members of IIT and the international universities and I'm enjoying this very much. Thank you so much. On behalf of all the participants in this remote center I would like to thank you for giving us this opportunity to undergo this faculty development program. Thank you, sir. Thank you so much. Rajaram Bapu Institute Sangli, over to you. Good morning, sir. Sir, we are from faculties from Rajaram Bapu instead of Technivagi and it's a privilege and honor that we are listening you. Sir, we are expecting that as a newcomer in a teaching field how to make a class engaged in an interesting manner because when we think about the student's point of view they feel a little... they are feeling a little bored when they sit in the classes. So we want to make a class interesting and we want to engage a student as per that itself. Thank you, sir. Thank you so much. This is MANIT Bhopal. Over to you, MANIT. Representing all the faculty members attending this program, sir. Our expectation is this that we want to learn how to effectively we can integrate ICT in our teaching learning program. Sir, I want to share with you that I attended first program in 2011 which was conducted by Dr. Chetan Singh Solanki. Then again I attended second program on introduction of research. So they were very helpful and they helped me in completing my PhD. So in this program I am a doctor. Earlier I was not. So inspired by that we started a program called which was online lecture for all the polytechnic students of Madhya Pradesh in remote areas. So how can we strengthen that program and can make it effective. And I personally would like to share with you where I focus on you which are for the final students of IIT Bonway where you shared the stories of GSIT, Soutox, Lavers and so on. You could really solve the problem of MTA. So these are inspiring as a teacher I really listen and follow. Thank you sir. And I would like to say that I am also the National Executive Council member of IST India Society for Technical Education generally representing Madhya Pradesh and these are the reasons. So I am there. And I am there for all the teachers. I am thankful to you for this great initiative because I am pointing you are behind this initiative. Thank you so much. This is Birla Institute. Good morning. Good morning. From IIT Mesra. So on behalf of all the faculty members, all the participants in this regional center first we would like to thank you sir as well as your IIT Bonway X team. You all have really provided us a very good opportunity through this ICT program. Our expectation from the two FDP program is especially to facilitate our student from all, we want to facilitate all the necessary things related to their study, students' study. So it is really very much helpful for all of us. And especially those student who are not able to attend the classes means for absentee student or those students who are poor actually in study. So if suppose we are providing all the material through our IIT site, so these are very much helpful for those students also. So thank you, thank you very much. Thank you very much going over to Indoor Institute Maida. Over to you. Sir, you want to know how to implement new technology to enhance our teaching skills that students can gain more and more knowledge from us. Thank you sir. This is Rai Soni College is it? Over to you. Good morning sir. I just wanted to congratulate IIT Bombay for conducting such an innovative program and this is really very interesting for us because we have been learning new techniques here so that we can be in touch with our students in and out inside the class as well as outside the class. I just humbly request you to kindly do all these interactive courses in vacation period because really it comes hectic for us and at the end of these two week program I hope I will be able to create a very beautiful blog for my students and I will be able to create my own web page. Thank you. Thank you so much. Oh, hello. Anna University. Oh, is that Madurai? Good morning. This is Jeevalan from representing the Anna University of Technology and I would like my points related to the FTP, the two things one is what we experience and second what we expect from this FTP and first point is that the FTP comes under our BC schedule but the interesting point to be noted with FTP is that it invokes, it makes us to work even after our office hours especially I used to work after 11 o'clock so that is the major success behind this FTP I feel and second thing what we expect from the FTP is I used to have some ICT tools for my complex topics in the classrooms but I know how it works from the teacher's point of view but I am participating as a learner in this FTP so it makes me to know how a student will interact to the FTP so my expectation is somewhat higher that I see more interactive, more lively and more loveable interaction with the students to conceptualize my complex topics to reach to every student community. Thank you sir. Thank you. This is St. Francis Institute in Mumbai. This is a very great initiative from you all in order to conduct this information and communication technology workshop for us we are actually expecting a better and interactive mode of discussion with students and to learn how to make video lectures so we can even reach out students outside the college. I just want one suggestions like we are actually want you all to highlight on how to make online assessments and feedback for the students so that it is helpful for us even to assess them outside and even to get their response and feedback even if we are not in contact with them in person. Good point. In fact we will be specifically covering these aspects as well so let me go over to couple more institutions NIT Silture. Yeah it's nice to see you sir our regards from NIT Silture to you and sir we are very optimistic about this initiative I would like to orient ourselves about effective use of ICT though the participant from NIT Silture is not up to the mark but we are expecting it to start I mean the stone build over to you sir I do not know why do you say that they are not up to the mark I don't understand in which context you say that is it that you are worried that not more numbers are participating or is it that you are saying that they are not up to the mark in whatever is expected I would not like the efforts to be little let me tell you even one faculty member in any part of the country benefiting from this program will benefit hundreds of students subsequently so what matters to us is not a very large number of people but even a few individuals who take this effort seriously and use these learnings in their own teaching which is what we all intend to do so thank you very much don't be worried about small numbers let these small numbers act as a kernel I am sure that in subsequent executions of these FDPs when other colleagues see the advantages that benefit the participants they will also come and join definitely thank you so much thank you for encouraging once again sir this phenolics academy Ratnagiri good morning sir good morning nice to see you again in these workshops sir our remote center have also participated in earlier four week AICT approach workshop we feel that the sessions which were they were facing the problems of the videos which were shared on the IIT Bombay X and the corresponding quizzes to be given so I think this time our participants are getting more and more inside into the ICT based teaching learning process and we are very much happy to see that this hybrid teaching learning process which is a new concept that IIT is teaching us that is again helpful for us in our teaching learning process of our institute also and students are also getting benefited thank you sir thank you so much I will temporarily suspend this interaction now it is the Indian tradition to start such sessions with prayers the most important prayer for me is for the teaching community and teachers so I start with the invocation of that prayer he says Guru Brahma, Guru Vishnu Guru Deva, Maheshwara Guru Sakshat, Parabrahma Dasmai Sri, Guru Venama I had my own share of great gurus but I would like to point out that the collective wisdom the collective commitment the collective passion that is represented by the 7700 participants of this FDP is far more than the great achievement of any individual guru I begin with my salutations to all of you please remember however wise you might be in the teaching learning place or you might be a greatly experienced teacher however different methods that you might be using for teaching all of you have been benefiting students and will continue to benefit students and I have no doubt in my mind that individual idiosyncrasies apart collectively the 7700 participants of this FDP represent the most gigantic guru in this country I am so happy that you have all agreed to participate in this as many people pointed out during the vacation time is easier for teachers to participate but in spite of the problems they are still participating so I am happy to see that let me begin by repeating a few statements which I have made in the recorded lecture where I have suggested that the teaching learning process is undergoing a significant change in the whole world so far we teachers were considered to be the main deliverers of knowledge but as I have pointed out earlier knowledge is now available to everyone on the internet in a form perhaps which is better than what even I can deliver after years of practice and that is because the digital resources now available and accessible to students including many in open source are far too many as a result our job as teachers is very clearly shifting from being deliverers of knowledge to the facilitators of learning and that shall be our main job the purpose of these two FDPs is too full one is to acquaint all our colleagues with the basic tools of ICT that are so useful in education but second and more important to also acquaint them of the pedagogy that has been evolving which is so different from the conventional pedagogy or methodology of teaching which was teacher centric where we delivered lectures and we expected students to do their homework at home the new pedagogy essentially revolves around engaging students and motivating them to do more work I will once again mention the very important point of the teaching learning process namely that a student learns or in fact any learner including us when we participate in such FDPs we learn only when we apply our mind and spend our time in looking at the concept and details and skills if we don't apply our mind if we don't spend our valuable time and effort we will not learn anything independent of how beautiful the delivery has been so this is the main difference now between the teaching learning that happened over last 500 years in the humanity and the teaching learning that will happen now in the 21st century and the objective of these two FDPs is to ensure that all of us not only learn these techniques but start practicing them having said this I would like to mention an important aspect of this teaching learning process that we have discovered over the years what we have discovered is one of the important ways in which you can actually enthuse or motivate a student is to interact with the student both on an individual basis as well as on a collective basis during the conventional teaching learning process such opportunities are there they are rare because I am spending most of my time in preparing for a lecture and then most of the class engagement in delivering that lecture but if at all I use a flip classroom then I am able to concentrate on discussions and on problem solving engaging students throughout that session many of us have been doing it for many years now I would suggest that when you adopt these techniques do not jump into doing it for an entire course at your end because that truly requires a much longer preparation my suggestion is take any one topic from the course that you teach and decide in advance that for that topic you will not deliver lectures but you will refer your students to listen to predefined set of lectures these could be lectures given by eminent teachers available in YouTube these could be your own pre-recorded lectures for which you will be appropriately enabled during the conduct of this FDP itself so you could pre-record your lectures on a topic and make students listen to those lectures ahead of time but engage them in a classroom only on problem solving and in discussion session let me tell you it is not as easy as it sounds I used to prepare 3 to 4 hours for every lecture that I gave earlier I started using the flip classroom I had to prepare for 8 to 10 hours for the first time and I did the flip classroom of course once you spend your time and invest in preparing for problems to be discussed in a flip classroom you could reuse these problems in subsequent years without any problem this course is a rather long course this FDP extends over many months and therefore conducting it in vacation period or conducting it in the regular period actually does not make any distinction please note that from the traditional FDP which required all participants to spend 2 weeks continuously in a remote place to attend such a workshop although those workshops were arranged during vacation period and presumably participants found it relatively easy to come but there were a large number of participants who could not move away from their families we have received a number of emails in the past particularly from lady teachers from remote places who said that if we had arranged this FDP at IIT Bombay they would have never been able to leave their families for 2 weeks and attend this this was the reason why we first set up the remote centers 15 years ago but this is also a reason to further reduce the physical synchronous activity where people are required to participate by physical presence and that is why over the last few years we have been introducing the online content in the FDP you will notice that this is very much in tune with the kind of pedagogy that we are saying will emerge for our students as well so if we are going to train our students using a combination a hybrid combination of online activities and face to face interaction then we ourselves must be able to do that properly and useful that is the reason why these FDPs were conceived where a majority of activity is to be done online as couple of friends pointed out he enjoyed working after office hours after night because he could do that online from the present of his own the whole idea is that you can spend 6 to 8 hours a week by finding out part of your spare time during the week because you have full freedom to choose your time and place where you would do those online activities it is only for the face to face interaction that you have to come together we have planned the face to face interactions on Saturday Sundays so as to minimize the disruption that will occur in your normal teaching activity of course I notice that most of the people who talked about conducting such programs in vacation they did not mention that their normal work is not affected if the FDP is conducted during the regular semester which is the correct point however they mentioned discomfort to themselves you see it is a very interesting point if I take the stance that I can work only so many hours in a week and if I have to spend 6 to 8 hours more for doing this FDP then that becomes an extra work let me redefine the concept of work the work is traditionally measured in the number of hours that we spend on the work a teacher unfortunately is not privileged to have such notions in one's mind I submitted to you that we as teachers have an extra responsibility to the society I will go back and repeat the statement that I had made long time ago and some of you might have heard them please note that human species are the only species in the world who have created an institution called a teacher no other species even the intelligent species like monkeys or elephants etc they are not known to have an institution called teacher this was created by humanity and this teacher was given the responsibility of codifying existing knowledge of communicating existing knowledge and training the young of the species and of enhancing that knowledge now this forms the crux of the teacher's life of course a teacher is a human being and like all other human beings have their families and have their other responsibilities we also have exactly the same kind of responsibility however please understand that we should not consider ourselves to be conventional employees of institutions as most others do we may be employed by an organization called a college or a university or something but we must never forget that we are teachers and therefore we have a little bit extra responsibility imposed on us by the entire society whether society today recognizes that whether society today respects that I think that is immaterial we are teachers we must take it upon ourselves to behave like an institution and an institution does not count the number of hours that one has to spend does not count vacation period and does not count normal period an institution like a teacher learns to enjoy life in every moment of it whether it is vacation period or other period I would strongly request that all of you should try and imbibe this philosophy like all other humans you and we must enjoy ourselves we must spend time with our families we must spend time like others do in the daily chores that is our requirement as human being but as teachers if we learn to optimize and manage our time better one of my gurus, professor Isaac used to always say that if you manage your time well you can make the day consisting of 25 hours I used to call it and I still call it the mythical 25th hour of JR Isaac what it means is by properly managing my time I can actually steal an extra hour every day if each one of us learns to do that such FDPs and extra efforts etc will never remain any extra effort after all we are all doing this primarily to benefit the mankind and the mankind which comes to us in the form of students who learn from our institutions under us unfortunately we have managed to break our education system in many silos where people in different disciplines have stopped communicating with each other and therefore are not benefitting from the advances that happen in other areas of work I believe that this FDP provides an opportunity where people from different domains will come together as the FDP unfolds you will find out that we are going to strongly suggest that people should work across boundaries of discipline let me say a few words again about the importance of interaction after all that is what we are going to emphasize in the modified teaching learning process for the next century namely that we should spend more time in interacting with students in exactly the same way we must spend more time in interacting with each other and in interacting with the associate faculty in this FDP this face to face interaction is only one such mechanism here if I am a participant in one of the colleges I get two opportunities the first opportunity is I interact with the faculty members from IIT Bombay through AVU I get to listen to their viewpoints occasionally I get to talk to them interact with them just like I have collected one page full of comments from all of you which are very useful to us to make modifications in our processes and also very useful for other people who are participating please note that when somebody in Shastra University asks a question or makes a comment that comment is heard and seen by all 7700 participants so all 7700 participants sitting in some kind of virtual classroom are benefiting from this interaction but that is only one part of it the second part is during the face to face sessions all of you come together physical please note that synchronous physical simultaneous present is the costliest investment that people can make in time effort and money in fact our entire education is a synchronous process today and as you will notice through ICT it would be made semi synchronous semi asynchronous but please use this opportunity of synchronous interaction when you are at the remote center spend time in talking to each other over tea break, over lunch break subsequently you will be forming yourselves into team at the end of second FDP even at the end of first FDP where you will be required to do some team work we have done one more very interesting experiment this time I believe this for the first time I have been attempting anywhere globally in fact 7700 teachers attending a single FDP itself is very rare and I am very sure globally there is no comparison and there is no equivalent effort anywhere including in the western societies but I digress what we have done is we notice that people who come physically for face to face interaction to the remote centers are invariably people from either that remote center or from colleges nearby now what happens is suppose I am an electrical engineer or somebody is a computer science person or somebody is a commerce teacher or somebody is a lawyer I notice that in one of the remote centers there are large number of law teachers participating which is very good by the way then I would like to be associated with someone some faculty member or associate faculty member who has undergone this course but who understands my domain better similarly I would like to have an opportunity to interact with some other people who may be in my domain or in some other domains but in a group which is different from the grouping at the remote center itself we have perceived of a parallel track of interaction with this FDP and this opportunity is provided to us by the predecessors who did this course earlier as I mentioned when I was interacting with Walton Institute Solapur for sending the largest number of top performers in the previous FDP well you might not know the exact details but out of the 200 top participants of the FDP over 35 participants have agreed to become our associate faculty and we have gladly incorporated them as associate faculty for this course these 185 people are not necessarily located at any physical place in fact some of them may not even be in any remote center so we are disassociating their participation from the concept of remote center all together what we have done is we have allocated or we are in the process of allocating a set of 40 to 50 participants based perhaps on their field of activity or based on the location etc and we are going to allocate them to one particular associate faculty who will act as a mentor so this is a completely independent grouping that is coming out of the 7,750 people one grouping is of course you attend the face-to-face interaction at the remote center and do those activities which are mandated there the other grouping is if I am one of those 50 people and I am associated with one mentor then this mentor and the group of 50 people will interact with each other electronically so they will interact with each other emails using any other means but more importantly we are providing for a view connectivity between each of these mentors and all the 50 participants who are allocated to this particular mentor will be defining certain slots during those slots these 50 people can individually connect on a view for a face-to-face interaction with the mentor faculty is a new experiment that we are doing we do not know how well it will work we are hopeful that it will work but it is important because we believe that that way we are actually providing for an additional opportunity of interaction between the previous participants who are our associate faculty and the existing 7700 participants I cannot stress the importance of the interaction and remaining engaged because the interaction causes the engagement to enhance significantly traditionally we talk of engagement only when we talk person to person but the engagement through discussion forum engagement through emails and of course face-to-face interaction through a view are additional mechanisms which we want to further buttress through this arrangement of associate faculty needless to add out of these 7700 participants the top performers will be honored again we do not have CSR funding to provide any cash rewards but we will announce with great pride the names of those individuals who perform at the top and we will be requesting the top performers of this batch again to work as our associate faculty for future execution of these FDP please do not forget that just in the professional education stream we have more than 350,000 teachers teaching if you take the entire higher education the number of teachers engaged in higher education in various branches of studies such as arts commerce law of medicine architecture well architecture is part of the professional higher education the point is there are easily about a million teachers who could all benefit from the proper use of ICT in education and from the new pedagogy because as the nation becomes digitally empowered more and more students even in remote areas will be able to access internet will be able to at least access intranet in their own college and it is our job as teachers to provide them both facilities for online content which they can access freely and provide them with an engagement model which is so different from the conventional lecture model that is the intention with which we are proceeding with these FDP let me very quickly answer a few points that were mentioned here one point which was mentioned was that this process of teaching learning will facilitate students who are poor performers or students who are absentees I am very happy that the teachers who made that comment represent the common streak in all of us namely to be sensitive to be the needs of relatively poorer students a student is poor not because a student is significantly less intelligent than the other but a student is poor because of the poor background that the student have there are many students who come to our colleges who actually have not studied in English language when they come and join a first year program whether it is in engineering in science or commerce they find it extremely difficult to understand lectures delivered in English for no fault of theirs they are put at a disadvantage now that is the time when a teacher using ICT tools should be able to give them let us say open educational resources which are available in their own native language and tell them look kid you need to learn English however you clarify the concepts of this particular subject by looking at these resources and simultaneously learn English as you progress further now these kind of mechanisms are not possible elsewhere and that is what will be made available and these FDP will definitely help you doing that however I would like to add a third category of students for whom we ought to do something the first category where you spoke are the poor students who are not performing very well or students who are absent or students who come from rural background the second category of course the majority of students who take care of themselves so they study on their own they are reasonably good they pass their courses and therefore we do not have to specially concentrate on them except for designing the proper syllabus by giving them an appropriate challenges in terms of questions assessment etc. the third category I speak of are the students who perform very well in your classes do we do anything special for them do we pay any special attention to them the fact of life is we generally do not it took me first 10-15 years of my own teaching career before I realized that the smarter students and believe me in IIT Bombay I am privileged to get very very smart students okay even though I must mention that we also get students who have studied in their native languages up to high secondary they are very smart students they have crack joint entrance exam they have joint computer science electrical engineering mechanical engineering or whatever it is but they also face problems in the first 2 or 3 weeks because they cannot understand English language lectures so I digress but I come back to the point that helping poor students here for example I used to conduct classes in Hindi for the first year students because many of them could understand only Hindi there is a bunch of students who said they do not understand Hindi they understand only Telugu since I cannot speak Telugu I requested some of my mtech students who are Telugu speaking students and my teaching assistant they conducted special Telugu lectures for them so this is the kind of help that we traditionally give to the poorer students and that is well taken but consider this you have 10 or 15 students in your class who are performing at the top do we pay any special attention to them we do not why because they are the top performance they will take care of themselves but let me mention this if you spend a little bit extra time on them they can perform much better than what they are performing now because they probably have not just an additional talent but that extra drive to do something that extra passion to do something extraordinary these are the people who are likely to contribute non-linearly to the society when they pass out of our colleges and it is absolutely important that you do something for them in the context of the teaching learning pedagogy I would like to share an experience that we had in addressing the students of both the categories the top performers and the bottom performers through a single course which a colleague of mine conducted recently Dr. Sameer Sasarapudde he is we are introducing skilling courses but I would like to mention these instances which occurred when he was teaching an online course partly in a hybrid or blended model which was called the animation course the animation using blender this was a skilling course is not a regular course in our syllabus and well more than 10,000 students have enrolled and more than 3500 students have successfully cleared that course but the two important things which I wanted to quote go as followed one is about the problems that are faced by the students so he came across in a discussion forum somebody had raised a issue he had given a team project where the team size was restricted to three members so somebody had raised the question why only three members we would like to form a larger group and one teaching assistant brought this to the notice of Dr. Sasarapudde so he went in some more details wrote a mail saying why do you want to have a larger group and one girl replied she said that we are five girls who all stay in one village near the engineering college during the week days we go to the engineering college but during the weekends we have to work from our village we have five of us but we have only one computer amongst us we cannot do exercises in the team if two of the people are left out and that is why we have requested that permit all five girls to form a single team Dr. Sasarapudde made an exception permitted that and they performed wonderfully well in the course we call them the Panchakanya of Borama Borama is the place which is one of our remote centers where these kids were working the importance of communication to the students is actually illustrated by one more incident that happened in his course and that was one place called Rajkore we have a couple of remote centers but this particular college I am mentioning is a different college and there more than 100 students were doing this course on animation when we were going through the performance of the students Samir Sasarapudde came to me and said sir all the students are their scores in their online quizzes is more than 87 88 percent now please note that if 87, 88 percent is a very high score and where large number of students are getting that score it means one of the two things one they are all learning very well which is good news but the other is they are possibly combining plagiarizing helping each other and that is how making a score so I requested Samir to physically go there to that center he went there he met the coordinator who was doing the hybrid portion that is face to face interaction and asked him about his doubt so that fellow laughed and he said sir tomorrow I have called all the 100 students to this center to the college please come and participate with us the next day the local teacher's modus operandi was very simple he started playing Dr. Samir Sasarapudde's video on animation which all 100 students were listening to and Samir himself was sitting in one corner and watching they were all watching the video but after 4 or 5 minutes this local teacher paused the video and explained the same thing in Gujarati Samir says he was astonished to understand suddenly all 100 students becoming very active started making notes etc etc and then he realized that while he had spoken in English not everybody was able to understand but the moment somebody explained the same thing in Gujarati all of them were able to understand later on that local teacher told Samir sir it is not that they don't know English further your English accent is much better than the English accent of the Europeans and Americans of whom we might have video recorded lectures your accent is like Indian accent and people can at least understand a bit however our students come from rural area and they are far more comfortable in listening to you in Gujarati or speaking in Gujarati therefore all that I do is I spend 1 hour listening to your videos I make my own notes and I explain to them in Gujarati the same concept and the results are with so please notice that just making available educational resources online does not necessarily mean that students will assimilate this requires that additional thread and additional communication and that communication will be different in different cases what the fellow in Rajkot did will not perhaps apply somewhere else where all students know English very well but they are demotivated for some other reason so motivating people through communication is the most important I will conclude my initial talk with one last example again from the same course where the communication proactive communication from the teacher how it goes a long way so in this course Dr. Samir Shastrabudde was again analyzing the performance of students on the online test and he found that some 10 or 12 people had topped the quiz one and quiz two of his course but they had not appeared for quiz three and quiz three was ending in just a few days time the quiz was open for almost a week but these 10 people had not attempted it at all and these were the toppers of the previous performance so what he did he found out their phone numbers and email IDs he wrote an email to all 10 of them and he started contacting them the person who was actually the course topper was a lady she was actually a teacher in the army institute in Pune somewhere I forget the exact details he could not get her phone number she was actually the top performer not only in quizzes but even the other assignments etc that he submitted so he contacted the principal of that college where she was working and asked for the contact details of this lady the principal was quite surprised why Dr. Shastrabudde of IIT Bombay is calling me of all the people he said that this lady is on maternity leave but he gave up Sameer the contact number Dr. Shastrabudde contacted that lady late evening and that lady said yes I could not do it because as you know I had taken maternity leave and I have actually delivered a baby Sameer Shastrabudde could hear the baby crying in the distance and Sameer said that I understand your difficulties but I would be very happy if you could appear for the remaining quiz and complete the assignment because you have done best so far in the course and he kept the phone 5 minutes later that lady called him back again and she said sir thank you for calling me I had a long chat with my husband who fired me he said I had promised to look after the baby so that you can concentrate and complete that course and you will not do that so he has told me that over the next 2 days he is going to take care of the baby and I am supposed to spend my time completing the quiz and the remaining assignment it was so heartening Dr. Shastrabudde told me it taught us a few important things the most important thing is the need for teacher to proactively communicate had Sameer Shastrabudde not made a call the lady would not have felt like doing anything because she was busy with the child second and most important thing the Indian family system is still intact the husband of the family is willing to support the wife telling her that don't give up I will take care of the baby this my dear friends is what makes our country unique and different but all of this has to be initiated by proactive and timely communication from us teachers how to do that in the world of ICT is what we are going to experiment with it in the next FDP in conclusion let me put it this way the field of use of ICT in education is yet evolving the last word has not yet been said already people have commented that in the discussion forum they find thousands of posts they find it impossible to locate which particular post means something to them and which particular post is generic after all I cannot effort to read thousand posts to understand what is relevant to me our team is already making efforts to ensure that the discussion forum is classified under different tags so that the relevant tags can be made available but it is very clear that if smaller communities wish to interact with each other in a focused manner the general discussion forum of IIT Bombay X is not very meaningful we are trying to modify this platform to provide additional facilities let me also tell you what we are trying to do we are setting up a portal we are developing a portal on Drupal called the portal for collaborating community in this portal for collaborating communities individuals can form communities and people can actually join a community I expect this portal to be used in the subsequent execution of these FDPs where 30, 40, 50 people or even 10 people could form a small community they will get their own discussion forum they will get very focused questions and answers and they would benefit from this effort let me conclude my initial talk with the following the effort here is obviously to empower each one of us in order to use the modern technology for better teaching learning processes do not forget the most important point that we make students learn when they spend their time when they are actively engaged they do not learn only because we provide the best material or the best quality material that is first thing of course we must provide the best quality material but we must ensure that the learners are engaged maximal this is exactly the effort that we are doing here with 7,750 participants all our 7,700 participants will not benefit just because I deliver a great lecture or just because a great effort is made in some OER that is made available but they will benefit maximally when they spend their active time and I would once again request I understand that you will have to spend time during what you call normal days of hectic activity in your colleges well I would urge you to consider spending 6 to 8 hours a week and spending just these 3 weekends 4 months how so ever strenuous it might be please do spend that time with the intention of relating to others with the intention of absorbing and then attempting to use it in your own course please remember the net result of this FDP is not just a proper certification which only ensures that the participants have learned something useful and the net end result of this FDP has to be that hundreds and thousands of students whom you teach in future actually benefit from whatever mechanisms that we learn here I will conclude this session with once again thanking all of you