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In an effort to reach out to the faculty staff in engineering colleges across the country to acquaint them with its high quality courses and innovative teaching skills, the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B) has tied up with Mission 10x, an initiative launched by IT company Wipro.
This Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will facilitate IIT-B and Mission 10x in mutually beneficial areas for a period of three years. Mission 10x will be involved in creating teaching methodology while IIT-B will deal with content delivery.
IIT-B’s Centre for Distance Engineering Education Programme (CDEEP) has been conducting live transmission of its engineering courses in India and abroad through various technologies including EDUSAT that enables web-based interaction between its participants and IIT-B faculty.
The CDEEP has also coordinated with IIT-B’s course creation efforts for the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) which has also been made available on the popular video sharing website YouTube. CDEEP started transmitting IIT-B’s courses free of cost to more than 50 colleges through Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) EDUSAT from January 2008 onwards.
Some of the activities to be carried out under this joint venture are creation of educational material, establishing a joint centre of excellence to carry out joint research activity in the field of education and transmission of educational material through EDUSAT.
Mission 10x was launched in September last year to ‘nurture talent pool’ across the engineering faculty in the country. It covers 17 engineering colleges in Maharashtra, apart from engineering colleges in four other states in the country.
Professor K Moudgalya, Head of CDEEP said, “The education system in India is in a terrible state. Education institutes, the government, private and public industry all have a stake in improving it in whatever way they can. It is an exciting opportunity for IIT-B to collaborate with Mission10x which is working towards enhancing engineering faculty capability across the country through innovative teaching and learning paradigms.”
The initiative aims to cover 10,000 faculty by 2010 and extend its services to other states as well. “We need to avail more of our distance learning programmes and tying up with Wipro help us achieve that,” said Professor Moudgalya.
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