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Faculty Development

Teaching the teachers

Beyond building products, I've spent years training the people who teach — bringing research-backed pedagogy, technology, and learning-space design to faculty across India.

1,000+
faculty trained
16
workshops · 3,000+ participants
15+
Faculty Development Programs
6
MOOCs supervised

What I train

ICT in the classroom

Using technology to enrich live teaching — without letting the tools get in the way of learning.

Assessment & evaluation design

Designing assessments that measure genuine understanding, not memory and recall.

Digital assessment methods

Computationally-intelligent, deeply-randomized online assessment that resists copying.

Learning-space design & built pedagogy

Designing rooms where the space itself teaches. See my built-pedagogy work →

Active-cooperative & adaptive learning

Turning passive lectures into active, collaborative, technology-enabled sessions that adapt to the learner.

Effective online teaching

Pedagogy that genuinely works over a screen — engagement, interaction, and feedback at a distance.

Teaching innovations

2015

Founded CREATES

Established the Centre for Research in Advanced Technologies for Education in Science at IISER Bhopal with Ministry of Education funding — impacting 50,000+ teachers & learners.

IISER Bhopal

Studio AIR

India's first technology-enabled adaptive-immersive-responsive classroom, designed & built 0→1. See the space →

2020

Conversational Pedagogy

During the pandemic lockdown, turned Slack into a conversational classroom for 200+ students across four courses — driving engagement through activities, peer interaction, and directly nudging students, with no LMS at all and far more effectively than one. See the approach →

Pedagogy

Active-cooperative courses

Developed and taught several courses — physical and online — built around active-cooperative pedagogy rather than one-way lecturing.

Wolfram Innovator Award

Digital assessment tools

Built Examineer — computationally-intelligent, deeply-randomized assessments now used by thousands.

Physics through Computational Thinking

A new course, a MOOC, now a book

I co-created Physics through Computational Thinking with Dr. Auditya Sharma — a genuinely new course that teaches undergraduate physics by computing it, using Wolfram Language. It was the first course taught in Studio AIR, then went national as an NPTEL / SWAYAM MOOC for 5,000+ learners — and is now becoming a textbook.

Follow the idea →