And then: Recent Episodes
Ram Ramaswamy
In which Prof. Madhurima and I summarise the third Panel Discussion of DFOT. Panelists were Profs. Suranjan Das (Jadavpur U), R. Srinivasan (Registrar, Madras University), Venu Narayan (Azim Premji University), Kalpana Sarathy (TISS, Guwahati), Vinitha Mokshagundam (Carmel College, Bangalore) and Pankaj Chandra (Ahmedabad University). They offered the perspective from the "other side of the table", what challenges and limitations were posed by different types of institutions and their administrative structures.
The Panel Discussion can be viewed on YouTube, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ojwpg8OZ3A
In which Prof. Madhurima and I summarise the second Panel Discussion of DFOT. Panelists were Profs. Qudsia Tahseen (AMU), Sameer Sapra (IIT Delhi), Angel Ratnabai (NCERT) and Padma Sarangapani (TISS, Mumbai). Exams remain a BIG issue for the kinds of classes and courses we have had to run during the pandemic.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://ramramaswamy.wordpress.com/2021/05/04/in-the-name-of-god-go/
The first Panel Discussion of DFOT was held on 23 August 2020, and the full video recording is available here. In this episode of the DFOT podcast, Prof. Madhurima and I talk about the main take-aways from the panel discussion that featured
- Prof. Usha Raman, University of Hyderabad
- Prof. Jayati Ghosh, JNU
- Prof. Sandeep Sen, SNU and IIT Delhi
- Prof. Felix Bast, Central University of Punjab.
talking about how to engage students in class, what the issues were, and how (to whatever extent) they were able to resolve matters.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://ramramaswamy.wordpress.com/2021/04/29/one-degree-of-separation/
This is the first in the series of DFOT Podcasts in which we hope to summarise the points made by our various panelists in the course of the Panel Discussions held during the past year on a variety of topics related to Online Teaching and Learning.
In Starting Out, we recount the events leading up to the formation of DFOT-
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://ramramaswamy.wordpress.com/2020/12/24/requiem-for-a-lost-soul/
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://ramramaswamy.wordpress.com/2018/08/10/o-dunning-o-kruger/
From my Blog, And then, the post Jagdish B.S. Haldar on the book by Samanth Subramaniam, A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S. Haldane.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://ramramaswamy.wordpress.com/2021/03/01/higher-education-going-online-the-challenges-in-india/