IIT Bhubaneswar has started taking classes in hybrid mode and about 40 per cent students are now attending offline classes. Students can attend both online and offline classes in hybrid mode arrangement. Hybrid classes are being conducted within the newly constructed Pushpagiri Lecture Hall Complex (PLHC) which is supplied with electronic gadgets.
The PLHC was inaugurated by the Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan on August 20 and it aimed toward distributing the scholars in a very way that every classroom has but half the strength and full social distancing is being followed.
Talking about the classes, Professor Raja Kumar, Director said, “for those students who are attending the lectures nose to nose, these are like every modern lecture halls with facilities for multimedia projection, document camera, powerpoint presentations and use of other gadgets sort of a tablet. Now so as to facilitate live streaming of the lecture, the board work and therefore the academic giving the lecture including the interaction, video and audio capturing and streaming facility is employed.”
This will facilitate streaming of the lecture live to a distant student including an interactive or a technique streaming session. We use MS Teams running on a laptop for the identical. a college member may also interact with a far off student within the streaming session. On top of this, the college members are encouraged to use their own innovative methods over and above this basic mechanism,” he further explained the procedure.
The hybrid classes provide fixed seats to the scholars which don’t allow them to change seats, class rooms are fully open for the ventilation and students also are supplied with the bicycles within the campus to avoid usage of transport.
