• Multimodal interactions and explainable AI for reflective physical and online learning: MiXai^learn workshop 

  Majumdar, Rwitajit; Li, Huiyong; Flanagan, Brendan; Kubota, Shin-Ichiro; Bhattacharya, Soumyadeep; Kothiyal, Aditi; Pande, Prajakt; Santos, Olga C.; Chounta, Irene-Angelica (Springer, 2025-07-22)

  This half-day workshop discusses application of explainable AI and multimodal interactions with personal devices, tangible electronics and social robots for fostering reflective learning practices in physical and online ...
• Middle school classroom explorations of polyhex and polyomino fitting puzzles 

  Garg, Neha; Thakkar, Jay; Jain, Manish (2025-07-14)

  In this paper, we share our experience of geometric and algebraic explorations of the puzzle ‘A-Puzzle-A-Day’ and its variations with middle school students as a part of our weekly online STEM program. The puzzle consists ...
• A little aggression goes a long way 

  Krishnan, Jyothi; Misra, Neeldhara; Nanoti, Saraswati Girish (Springer, 2024-08-23)

  Aggression is a two-player game of troop placement and attack played on a map (modeled as a graph). Players take turns deploying troops on a territory (a vertex on the graph) until they run out. Once all troops are placed, ...
• Making confident designers: effect of a design and prototyping course and gender differences in students' engineering design self-efficacy 

  Kothiyal, Aditi; Chauhan, Avanish; Sahasrabudhe, Sameer; Vadali, Madhu (2024-09-02)

  Prototypes serve multiple purposes in design such as communication, learning and decision-making. In fact, designers often perform multiple cycles of prototyping, testing and design refinement. Yet, design and prototyping ...
• We can see invention in everything: effects of the six-week invention factory program 

  Kothiyal, Aditi; Harshitha, Jidugu Kavya (2024-09-02)

  The evolving role of the engineer necessitates the development of innovation skills among engineering undergraduates. Short term intensive projects are an effective way to supplement curricular design and innovation ...
• Beyond 'just play with it!': a rubric to help teachers design jupyter notebooks for instructional efficiency 

  Hardebolle, Cécile; Kothiyal, Aditi; di Vincenzo, M.C.; Brändle, Urs; Bentel, Katrin; Flück, Daniel; Jermann, Patrick (2024-09-02)

  Jupyter notebooks offer multiple pedagogical scenarios for teaching computational competences in sciences and engineering courses. In this workshop, we want to help teachers design educational Jupyter notebooks so that ...
• Unpacking interaction markers of critical thinking 

  Kothiyal, Aditi; Majumdar, Rwitajit; Mishra, Shitanshu; Warriem, Jayakrishnan Madathil; Pande, Prajakt (2024-11-25)
• Online making-based learning at scale: towards equity in STEM learning 

  Gautam, Deeksha; Kothiyal, Aditi; Sheoran, Rashmi; Garg, Neha; Iyer, Adithi; Bhakuni, Ashutosh; Thakkar, Jay; Krishnan, Jyothi; Jain, Manish (2024-11-25)
• Designing educational games for Indian classrooms: a cultural and curriculum-centered approach 

  Agarwal, Bhavya; Krishnan, Jyothi (2024-11-07)
• Computational thinking based STEM art exhibits 

  Thakkar, Jay; Jain, Manish (Springer, 2024-10-07)

  Making large-scale STEM exhibits can be a very engaging group activity for students across all ages. Apart from giving them a sense of accomplishment from completing the mammoth task of exhibit making, it also inspires ...
• An activity a week, teachers and students speak: embedding videos for hands-on activities in primary school teachers' weekly planners 

  Shelar, Swati; Jain, Manish; Krishnan, Jyothi; Kothiyal, Aditi; Agarwal, Bhavya; Kulkarni, Jayashree (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2024-06-21)

  This paper details a design approach for the consistent practice of hands-on learning of STEM, Language, Social-Emotional Learning, and Art in primary schools in the low-income contexts of government schools in Uttar ...
• LEAP: a model for learning engineering practices through abstraction at progressive levels 

  Kothiyal, Aditi; Mishra, Shitanshu; Murthy, Sahana; Iyer, Sridhar (Center for Open Science, 2024-01)
• Remaking makerspaces: a shift in the design of makerspaces through a 4E cognition perspective 

  Kothiyal, Aditi (2023-10-06)

  Making has recently emerged as a valuable practice in engineering education because it leads to the learning of skills such as design, prototyping, inquiry and experimentation. However, there is a gap in our understanding ...
• To speak or not to speak, and what to speak, when doing task actions collaboratively 

  Nasir, Jauwairia; Kothiyal, Aditi; Sheng, Haoyu (2023-07-11)
• Radix sort and story cards 

  Jain, Manish; Garg, Neha (7/27/2023)
• Sine waveform cars 

  Jain, Manish (7/27/2023)
• Sustainability and ethicality are peripheral to students' software design 

  Isaac, Siara; Kothiyal, Aditi; Borso, Pierluca; Ford, Bryan (Dublin Institute of Technology Tempus Publications, 2023-06)

  The conceptual design phase is a fascinating moment to observe how a design task is interpreted, as the (often implicit) relative importance students accord to the various requirements and constraints offers a window into ...
• Evaluation of teachers' orchestration tools usage in robotic classrooms 

  Shahmoradi, Sina; Kothiyal, Aditi; Bruno, Barbara; Dillenbourg, Pierre (Springer, 2023-06)

  Teachers' self-efficacy in managing classrooms is an important consideration when it comes to bringing educational robots to classrooms. Orchestration tools support teachers by providing awareness indicators of students' ...
• Center for creative learning: bringing back the gleam in the eyes 

  Center for Creative Learning (CCL) (NIScPR-CSIR, 2022-07)
• SMT-based verification of safety-critical embedded control software 

  Adhikary, Sunandan; Gurung, Amit; Thakkar, Jay; Da Costa, Antonio Bruto; Dey, Soumyajit; Hazra, Aritra; Dasgupta, Pallab (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2021-09)

  A large fraction of bugs discovered in the design flow of Embedded Control Software (ECS) embedded control software arises from the control softwares interaction with the plant it controls. Traditional formal analysis ...

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