Vivek Sabanwar

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Vivek Sabanwar is a researcher dedicated to advancing engineering education through scalable, technology-enabled learning platforms. His primary research areas include massive open online courses (MOOCs), particularly for hardware and robotics, learning analytics, and student engagement in large-scale educational environments. Sabanwar’s major contributions lie in identifying the unique challenges of “hardware MOOCs”—courses requiring physical infrastructure beyond standard web access—and proposing motivation-based frameworks to build effective infrastructure for them. He has also investigated the critical relationship between course difficulty and student retention, offering insights to improve completion rates in hands-on engineering MOOCs. Notably, his work on developing a learning analytics dashboard for a massive online robotics competition provides instructors with real-time tools to track participant activity and sustain engagement at scale. While his citation counts are currently modest (with his most cited paper garnering 4 citations), his research addresses a pressing need in STEM education: making practical, hardware-intensive training accessible to thousands of students simultaneously. Sabanwar’s focus on the e-Yantra platform—which imparts hands-on engineering skills to undergraduates across India—demonstrates his commitment to bridging the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical application in engineering pedagogy.