I took a 1-hour long session (was supposed to be 2 hours, but my planned agenda was exhausted) for students of engineering colleges across Karnataka studying in colleges under VTU. The session was delivered via EDUSAT under the Sun Microsystems- VTU EDUSAT e-learning programme.
It was fun. However, the fact that there was no interaction with the students felt a little dumb. (I was speaking on the camera which was beamed live)
These are my slides:
I also put together a short Quiz for them:
While preparing the slides, the basic fact that I kept in mind was market MySQL to the students and the teachers so that they start using it in their classes instead of expensive, proprietary databases. This perhaps is the biggest challenge for MySQL- to be adopted in educational institutions in India where the use of other databases is a norm for years.
It was fun. However, the fact that there was no interaction with the students felt a little dumb. (I was speaking on the camera which was beamed live)
These are my slides:
I also put together a short Quiz for them:
While preparing the slides, the basic fact that I kept in mind was market MySQL to the students and the teachers so that they start using it in their classes instead of expensive, proprietary databases. This perhaps is the biggest challenge for MySQL- to be adopted in educational institutions in India where the use of other databases is a norm for years.
