Keywords: STEM education, Educational Technology, Researching in Indian context, Professional transition from the US to India
Bio: Chandan Dasgupta is an Assistant Professor in the Educational Technology interdisciplinary program at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He is interested in designing technology-enhanced learning environments for supporting collaborative learning, socially shared regulation of learning, and uncertainty management in STEM. He uses a socio-cultural perspective to investigate how learning unfolds in formal and informal contexts. Chandan has a PhD in Learning Sciences from the University of Illinois at Chicago (USA), MS in Human-Computer Interaction from Georgia Tech (USA), and has done post-doctoral work in Engineering Education Research at Purdue University (USA).
[…] You feel that you know everything, but then it’s not really the case. You are coming to a different context. You’re working with different groups of people here, both from a research and target demographic perspective. So, not having that grand plan or notion of that I would change the system or overhaul the whole education structure here in India [is important].”
In this interview, Chandan discusses:
- His ongoing research and practice-based projects
- Their connections with the broader context of the pandemic in India
- What it means to research in India
- How he has transitioned from being at a US institution to now being a researcher scholar in India
Further Reading:
- Badhe, V., Priyadarshini, R., & Dasgupta, C. (2022). Understanding SSRL Strategies And Its Impact On Group Performance In a CSCL Environment: A Case Study From a Project-Based Learning Course in India. Proceedings of the 16th International Society of the Learning Sciences, 2022. Hiroshima, Japan, June 6-10 (p. 187-194).
- Kaur, N., & Dasgupta, C. (2022). Investigating Experts’ and Middle School Learners’ Uncertainty Management During Collaborative Engineering Design Tasks. Proceedings of the 16th International Society of the Learning Sciences, 2022. Hiroshima, Japan, June 6-10 (p. 107-114).
- Swamy, N., & Dasgupta, C. (2022). Understanding and Leveraging Contradictions of Instructional Activities for Fostering Students’ Agency. Proceedings of the 16th International Society of the Learning Sciences, 2022. Hiroshima, Japan, June 6-10 (p. 1661-1664).
- Alekh, V., & Dasgupta, C. (2022). Distributed Creativity Mediated by Social and Material Interactions in a Collaborative Pop-up Makerspace in India. Proceedings of the 16th International Society of the Learning Sciences, 2022. Hiroshima, Japan, June 6-10 (p. 1301-1304).5. Dasgupta, C., Magana, A. J., & Vieira, C. (2019). Investigating the affordances of a CAD enabled learning environment for promoting integrated STEM learning. Computers & Education, 129, 122-142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2018.10.014
