Remote Teaching: My

Experience and Some Work

Ahead
S. Venkatesan
Professor of Computer Science
University of Texas at Dallas
Lessons learnt during Virtual Classes
• Distance learning is fine for most motivated students like Ekalavya of
Mahabharatha.
 Average students
• Very very difficult for most students who otherwise do reasonably
well
Other Difficulties faced by the students
• Distractions created by technology (even if smart phones are powered
down)
• Appreciated by instructors, by classmates
• Solidarity with others in class
• Am I the only one lost in the class?
• Can’t feel the positive vibe of an enjoyable class
• No one is looking at me;
Some Difficulties faced by the students
• Logistics
• Technology, connectivity, quite place, etc.
• Ability to quickly ask the neighboring student (I missed the last 3 words spoken by the
instructor, tell me what)
• Have fun when learning (poke fun at the instructor, …)
• Screen fatigue
• Distractions created by technology (even if smart phones are powered down)
• Feeling being appreciated by instructors, by classmates
• Solidarity with others in class
• Am I the only one lost in the class?
• Can’t feel the positive vibe of an enjoyable class
• I can do mischief; no one is looking at me
Some Difficulties identified by students
• Logistics
• Technology, connectivity, quite place, etc.
• Exams? Very hard on all
Rich in-person experiences missed
• Ability to quickly ask the neighboring student (I missed the last 3
words spoken by the instructor, tell me what)
• Have fun when learning (poke fun at the instructor, …)
Screen Fatigue
Other Difficulties faced by the students
• Distractions created by technology (even if smart phones are powered
down)
• Appreciated by instructors, by classmates
• Solidarity with others in class
• Am I the only one lost in the class?
• Can’t feel the positive vibe of an enjoyable class
• No one is looking at me;
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• Made progress, but results are in bits and pieces
• Group learning inside and outside classroom
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• Group activities
• Forming groups?
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Atul Mukker
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Introducing machine learning
concepts using hands-on
exercises
Mahesh K. Banavar
Associate Professor
Department of ECE, Institute of STEM Education, Clarkson Center of
Complex Systems Science (C3S2)
Clarkson University
About
• Research • Funding Support
• Signal Processing • NSF
• Machine learning • Qualcomm
• Inference
• Facebook
• Localization
• DARPA
• Continuous Authentication
• STEM Education • AFRL
• Teaching
• Systems and Signal Processing, Digital
Signal Processing, Digital Control (UG)
• Adaptive Signal Processing, Detection
and Estimation (Grad)
Three things or One thing?
Challenges

• Mathematical background
• Motivation to learn
• Cannot connect to real world
Challenges

• Coding knowledge
• Debugging skills
• Visualizations
• Data
Challenges
• Real world data
• Preprocessing and preparing
• Interpretation
What we did
• Integrating ML content directly into the class curriculum

Advantage: Students see the context and relevance as part of their

course.

Challenge: Integrate the ML content in such a way that it fits naturally

with the course material being covered. 
Course
• Systems and Signal Processing
• Junior level
Concepts covered

ML Topic Course Topic

• PCA, dimensionality, • Fourier Series
orthogonality

• Characteristic functions and • Fourier transform

visualization

• Classification and noise analysis

• Filtering and signal handling
Hands on
• Projects

• Simulation data

• Real data (keystroke data)

• Interpretation
Assessments
Student Comments
“Instead of just learning about things blindly we were given applications of what we
were learning through the projects so we could visualize what was being taught.”

“I appreciated the ability to apply basic topics in relation to class material.”

“Working with Matlab and learning more about how to use the language.”

“How it provided a real world example and required us to relate topics that we learned
in class.”

“It was machine learning!”

What comes next?
• Workshops

• Integrated ML curriculum

• Learning modules
Thanks!
• Questions?