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SDM IPR Cell is established to educate its stake holders : students, faculty and others about one of the most important and relevant issues of our times: Intellectual Property. Properties have ruled human minds since time immemorial and in recent years technologically created and crafted properties such as algorithms and gene sequences are overshadowing the traditionally adored properties such as land, factory etc. The first and foremost objective of SDM IPR cell is to bring a desired degree of awareness about these intellectual property issues such as creating them, protecting them and harnessing them for personal, professional and social causes . This SDM IPR intends to do with a set of well conceived and thoroughly planned activities such as invited lectures, IPR clinics and design of curriculum to mention the few. Keep watching this blog for regular updates

Periodically emergence of new technologies have altered the nature and scope of human endeavors. One such endeavor that has been regularly benefited from new technologies is education. In pre-printing press days education was by and large oral and limited to physical delivery of lesson. The advent of printing press and hence the printed word changed it for ever. The ability to publish books created universities and authors. With the advent of WWW we have a new power with us. Hyperword. Hyperword is a created in connected environment. Printed word captured the oral knowledge for ever and made it available everywhere in the world. The hyperword goes beyond that. At the same time a hyper word informs reader and also has a potential to another source on informed topic. This twin features of hyperword is the basis of all that is happening and all that can happen in the days to come. Some of resources available for teaching that exploit hyperword are Blogger Search engines Online docs The

The online world is the "new found land" of our times. Exploring this new found land and making it our next natural habitat is an exciting challenge and a discovery process. It is something similar to the venture of of the early proponents of Newfoundland settlement which offered various grandiose reasons for their schemes, but the special advantages of the island were more relevant and these were, largely, related to the fishery. However this new "online" land is much more in its offerings. Here are some observations Online world is a technology enabled resource . It is not constrained by the natural barriers of time, distances and sometimes it even overcomes the barrier of language. Online world is a general resource, however to explore and exploit its true potential one must specialise in one or the other way. Some of the general purpose tools that might be considered for specialisation are blogger , custom search engines, web site Online world resource is glob

One of students who was campus recruited by a MNC has just completed a 3-month in-company training. He told me " On the last day of our training programme we were asked to assemble at one place and we all thought that we would be receiving placement orders in one of the many of MNC's centers across India". Instead they were given 15-days paid holidays. This announcement caught most of the trainees unaware. One by one went into action mode. One of them cancelled her air ticket to home town and instead booked bus ticket. Another one downgraded his ticket from expensive Volvo bus to ordinary bus. This seemingly insignificant event highlights one of the deeply seated trends in our youth. Tendency to spend rather lavishly even before earning it completely. In general it is good to spend when you start earning. Every spending helps someone in the economy. The current economic down turn is very genuine and is hurting many. To be sure, it is hurting some of them v

The online world is the newfound land of our times. Exploring this newfound land and settling there is an exictiting challenge and a discovery process. In this blog we discover its potential, meaning. We also try to develop approaches on how to harness its potential for individual and instutional purposes.

A couple of decades ago, there was only one place to watch a movie: Film theater or talkies. You have to wait until the release of movie usually on Friday, go to the theater  buy ticket and watch the movie. Theaters had fixed and regular times for shows. About a decade or so ago, things started changing. Introduction of CD allowed people to watch movies at places and times of their convenience such as at home and in the evening- provided they can afford CD player. Some time later Cd rental opened up movie watch opportunities ti many more on weekdays- in office- in functions and in bus during travels or in hotels during stay. In other words theater gradually lost the primary position as the place for watching movies. Something similar has happened or happening to class room teaching and learning. While I was studying in school during 1970's, it was classroom where most or even all learning and teaching happened. if someone missed class for whatever reason, there was n

Teaching is my profession and it is in a kind of crisis. Indeed, my students struggle with broken learning processes, teachers struggle with defective delivery process. Let me elaborate and provide evidence. In a semester long course though designed for continuous learning students show peak learning efforts during and around 3 IAs and final exams. On the other hand, teachers deliver each class as if students are eagerly waiting for immediate learning. This is a serious synchronization challenges for both students as well as teacher. On student's side, the teacher's delivery becomes a kind of non-stop noise or sahasra nama and for a teacher it is a kind brochure reading in front of a uninterested customer. NO teacher nor the students want any of these situations, but with current teaching/learning processes most of them are unavoidable. Now I wish to attack this challenge face on. In other words, I wish to synchronise teaching delivery with learning consumption. In this regards

I am Ravindra Dastikop, currently working as an assistant professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department of SDM College of Engineering  Technology, Dharwad. I have been working in this institution since 1987 and have worked in different capacities. I started my career in the computer lab which was then part of Electronics and Communication Engineering department. Since early days I have taken fascination into computers and information technology aspects. In the past I have been the first user in my department to many of IT utilities such as emails. I created my first email account on hotmail way back in 1997. Developments in Information technology have always held my attention. In the recent years I have been using tools such as online docs and presentation and custom search engine and more With the advent of web 2.0 , I have been exploring a new genre of tools unleashed the web. Blogs seems to be the one I am currently attracted most. I have been using blogs exten