The Centre for Educational Technology initiated its multifarious activities in 1995. From 2006 it offers postgraduate programme in “Media & Sound Engineering” as well as some open electives for B. Tech students of the institute.
The Centre is a leading presence in the field of Distance Education and E-learning in India with high-end Multimedia and CAL laboratories. The centre combines strong expertise in Information and Communication Technologies with Pedagogy and Instructional Systems.
It has 3 professional studio–cum–classrooms for recording full-semester courses of the institute. More than 100 full semester Video courses of the institute are digitized and stored in a bank of servers. All lectures of these courses are now available on the Internal LAN of IIT Kharagpur in the VOD mode.
Initial trials have been carried out successfully in tutorial classes of the course on “Networks signals & systems” at the UG level. With a valid ID, students can join a live tutorial classroom through the institute LAN connection. It allows students to pose questions and see and hear the responses of the teacher. They could interactively participate in the class from their Halls of Residence. It uses one-way (classroom to students) video and two-way audio / text transmission.
The on-going Virtual Laboratory project is aimed at reproducing the hands-on laboratory experience of selected courses very closely, on computer screens - through advanced modelling and simulation techniques. Ten experiments of 1st and 2nd year Electrical Engineering laboratory are now available in the web-enabled client-server mode. This tool allows a student to simulate and conduct experiments on a computer.
A software has been developed and implemented for conducting on-line tests for selection of paramedical personnel to NIOH
CET is also involved in the National Project in Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) along with the other IITs and IISc, Bangalore. The first phase of the project has been completed – leading to a resource material generation of 240 video-based and web-based courses. The second phase is due to begin from 2007, with a target of producing 500 more such courses. All courses would be distributed free-of cost to all engineering colleges – with a bid to improving the standard of engineering education in the country.
CET also pioneered the first off-campus Distance Education Programme in various IT related areas between 1997 and 2003.
CET is also involved in the multi-crore project of MHRD on “Pedagogic Research” and “Standardization of Quality Assurance of web-based courses”.
ET Media and Sound Engineering
Course Content
Core Subject: Digital Image Processing and Applications, Digital Voice and Picture Communication, Media Systems Laboratory, Audio Systems Engineering, Multimedia Processing and Networking, Media Process Simulation Laboratory, Seminar, Comprehensive Viva-Voce
Elective Subjects : Communication Systems and Networking, Data Warehousing and Data Mining, Cluster and Grid Computing, Geographical Information System, Advanced Database Systems, Applied Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Applications, Data Structure and Object Representation, Advanced Computer System Architecture, Computer Visualization and Solid Modelling, Information Theory and Coding Techniques, Digital Signal Processing and Applications, Satellite Communication Systems, Cryptography and Network Security, Cryptography and Security Issues, Artificial Intelligence, Speech and Natural Language Processing, Object Oriented Systems, Embedded Systems, Selected Topics in Video Systems Engineering (course content to be decided by the teacher offering the course), Instructional System Design, Project Engineering and Management, Strategic Management
The lecture classes are supported by well-planned laboratory demonstrations in Sound & Media engineering and lectures by renowned experts in the area.