34th Annual Report (2021-22)

84 The Workshop on Online Pedagogy and Evaluation was held online on June 30, 2021, to discuss and share experiences on these aspects during the current pandemic. The workshop was attended by about fifty IUCAA Associates and astronomy educators. The introductory remarks by Somak Raychaudhury, Kandaswamy Subramanian, and Dhruba J. Saikia (all from IUCAA) were followed by a detailed presentation by G. Ambika (IISER, Tirupati) on their experiences with online teaching and evaluation. SahanaMurthy (Educational Technology Interdisciplinary Programme, IIT – Bombay, Mumbai) gave a lucid presentation on enhancing online learning processes, shared results of some of their surveys, and made suggestions for best practices. Ramana Telidevara (Founder and CEO, CodeTantra) gave a very detailed description of their assessment platform Workshop on Online Pedagogy and Evaluation A section of the participants of the Workshop on Online Pedagogy and Evaluation with online remote proctoring, which generated a lot of discussions. Prakash Arumugasamy gave an overview of our evaluation processes using Google and Moodle, while Sukanta Deb (Cotton University, Guwahati) made a presentation on how to make pedagogical videos using the open source Linux platform for online teaching. Astronomy-themed IUCAA ACE Repository of Experiments has been initiated, hosted by the IUCAA Library. The repository is divided into five categories, three of these are based on the wavelengths of observations in the electromagnetic spectrum, the fourth one is on gravitational waves, and the fifth one is of a more general nature. These are categorized as (i) radio, (ii) infrared, optical and ultraviolet, (iii) high-energy astrophysics, which includes X-rays and gamma-rays, (iv) gravitational waves, and (v) others. The link to theRepository is: http://repository.iucaa.in :8080/jspui/hand le/11007/4545 The repository has been started with a few radio astronomy related experiments, which could be done at home. These were IUCAA ACE Repository of Experiments part of the experiments offered during the Radio Astronomy Winter School – 2020, and IUCAA Refresher Course on Astronomy and Astrophysics – 2021. Members of the community are encouraged to contribute to the Repository. Those wishing to do so are requested to email us at nrciucaa@gmail.com Astronomy-themed IUCAA ACE Repository of Experiments has been initiated, hosted by the IUCAA Library. The repository is divided into five categories, three of these are based on the wavelengths of observations in the electromagnetic spectrum, the fourth one is on gravitational waves, and the fifth one is of a more general nature. These are categorized as (i) radio, (ii) infrared, optical and u l t r av i o l e t , ( i i i ) h i gh- ene r gy astrophysics, which includes X-rays and gamma-rays, (iv) gravitational waves, and (v) others. The link to theRepository is: http://repository.iucaa.in :8080/jspui/hand le/11007/4545 The repository has been started with a few radio astronomy related experiments, which could be done at home. These were part of the experiments offered during the Radio Astronomy Winter School – 2020, and IUCAA Refresher Course on Astronomy and Astrophysics – 2021. Members of the community are encouraged to contribute to the Repository. Those wishing to do so are requested to email us at nrciucaa@gmail.com