Talks

Date Topic At Slides
12 June 2025Multiformat Content:
Videos, eBooks, Infographics		Academic Consultation Meet: The future of Open Schooling in line with NEP 2020 at National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS)Slides
29 May 2025Poster perfect: A Guide to Presenting Your Internship WorkSummer Research Internship Program (SRIP) 2025 at IIT GandhinagarPlease mail me for the slides
sameerss@iitgn.ac.in
22 July 2024What makes an Engineer?Lecture at the Foundation Program 2024 at IIT Gandhinagar. Co-Speaker: Prof. Aditi KothiyalPDF
19 July 2024Short film makingAarohan, IIT GandhinagarPDF
3 July 2024Designing effective research postersSRIP, IITGN Batch of 2024PDF
28 June 2024Planning a paper for educational researchFDP on Tools and Platforms for Teaching and Research, Birla Global University BhubaneswarPDF
10 May 2024Writing research papers for Design domainsKeynote, Research Skills Development Program (RSDP), UID, GandhinagarPDF
16 March 2024Half day orientation workshop on Designing Learner-Centric MOOCs100+ faculty members from Gujarat nominated by Commissionerate of Technical Education (CTE)Session 1 and 2
25 July 2023Overview of MOOCs and the LCM modelSrishti Manipal University, BangalorePDF
30 July 2022Mission Animation: Joint talk with Kaumudi Sahasrabudhe about the challenges and the process of animating famous cartoons by SD Phadnis#salaamhasyareshanna #सलामहास्यरेषांना 3 day exhibition event to commemorate 70 years of professional career of legendary artist SD Phadnis. Balgandharva Art gallery, PuneEnglish
Marathi
24 March 2022Keyframes and trajectories
of achieving Skill at Scale
Journey of an animator to MOOC instructor		Guest lecture at IIT GandhinagarGoogle Drive link (view only)
6 July 2021Introduction to Learner Centric
MOOC [LCM] Pedagogy		Faculty Development Programme on Design, Develop and Deliver Online CoursesSession 1 & Session 2
19 May 2021Active Learning for classroomsKeynote for the FDP on Use of ICT in classrooms, Sanjivani College of Engineering, KopargaonPDF of the slides
9 May 2021Spot your satelliteYoung Scientist Lecture Series at Young Academy of India (YAI)PDF version
25 April 2021Curation: Creative creationOE4BW mentor and mentee meetingPPTX (editable) and PDF
19 April 2021Creation and dissemination of Learner-Centric MOOCsDeveloping Future Academic Leaders, FDPSlides PDF
27 Feb 2021Content Authoring &
Learner-Centric Pedagogy for MOOCs		HRDC SPPUSlides PDF
Jan 2021Faculty Development Workshop on ‘Design of MOOCs’Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, AssamSession 1 | Session 2
Oct 2020TypographyVisual Design Basics for Creating Educational MultimediaDay 1 | Day 2 |
28 Sep 2020Special Lecture: Learning in COVID Times: Turning a Crisis into an OpportunityNational Webinar on Education During COVID-19 and Beyond; School of Pedagogical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, IndiaPDF of the slides; and the editable version of the slides
12 Aug 2020Transitioning from Face-to-face to Online teaching and learningMeeting of the Principals, Savitribai Phule Pune University, PuneFull set of slides
24 Jul 2020Animation: To Exclaim or to Explain. (Blender as 3D animation tool, with Gaurav Pant)Webinar series on Open source tools for Media, The Heritage Academy, KolkataPDF of slides used
7 Jul 2020Transition from Face-to- face classrooms to online classroomsVasanta College for Women, Benaras
Presented by Prof. Natasha Gomes and Prof. Daisy Wadhwa.		Slides here
2 Jul 2020Panelist, Learner centered approach OE4BWUniversity of Nova Gorica and UNESCO, Slovenia (Online conference)Slides in PDF format
21 Jun 2020Keynote for the Faculty Development Program: Design of Engaging Digital Learning
Experience		Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, MumbaiKeynote_VIT
19 Jun 2020Panel discussionelets Higher & Technical Education Virtual Conclave, West India
13 Jun 2020From face-to-face
classrooms to
Online classrooms		Institute of Management and Research, JalgaonSlides: Short version