INTERACTIVE MEET

In the follow up of Digital India Week, Dronacharya Group of Institutions, Greater Noida (RC-1316) participated in the Interactive Meet through A-View transmission organized by Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB) on 3rd July 2015 in which more than 20 faculty members from various departments participated.

Prof. D.B. Phatak, Principal Investigator, IIT Bombay addressed the audience. He said that one should take initiatives to make our country digitalized through various project and technology.

Dr. Mukta Atrey, Project Manager, IIT Bombay, discussed about various project like T10KT, Spoken Tutorial Project, e-Yantra, e-Kalpa, FOSS etc being mentored by IIT Bombay in order to make available IIT resources to students and faculty of all other colleges.

Dr. Atrey gave a brief of these initiatives :

TALK TO A TEACHER

There are total three forums named as ‘Research forum’, 'Course a View' and ‘Ask A Question’.

T10KT

Dr. Atrey said that through ‘Train 10,000 Teachers’ (T10KT) Project workshops in core subjects, for faculty of engineering and science using the A-VIEW platform are being conducted in which the expert faculty from IITs deliver the course and also share their experience about the same.

e-Kalpa (Creating Digital-learning Environment for Design)

This project is based on 'Creating Digital-learning Environment for Design' also called 'e-kalpa' sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resources, Government of India as part of the National Mission in Education through Information and Communication Technology.

National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)

The NPTEL initiative provides e-learning through online web and video courses in Engineering, Science and humanities streams. The mission of the program is to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country by providing free online courses.

Virtual Lab

This session was started with the introduction of V-lab by Mr. Santosh. V-lab is an initiative of Ministry of Human Resource Development under the National Mission on Education through ICT. The objective of virtual lab is to provide remote-access to Labs in various disciplines of Science and Engineering

Central for Distance Engineering Education Program (CDEEP)

Under CDEEP, NPTL is designing and producing the curriculum based video & web courses to enhance the quality of Engineering Education.

Remote centers were asked to provide feedback based on the utilization of IIT resources. Prof. Ashwani Kumar, Administrator Academics, DGI, Gr. Noida thanked IITB for their initiatives. He said that advantage of the use of ICT as a medium for diffusion of knowledge and creation of vibrant learning communities would be a valuable national objective. He said that DGI today is the NMEICT Remote Centre of Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and Kharagpur for their T10KT (Teach Ten thousand Teachers) Program through which several ICT based programs have been conducted. DGI is also a Study Centre for NPTEL, an initiative of IITs and IISc as well as the centre for IIT Madras’s QEEE (Quality Enhancement in Engineering Education) through which students are being mentored by teachers from IITs. Spoken Tutorial, eYantra, Aakash Tablet projects of IIT-Bombay and V-Lab of IIT-Delhi has been introduced by DGI in order to enhance the technical skills of the students for which IITB has been instrumental.

Dr. Mukta Atrey thanked all the staff members at various Remote Centres for joining in through A –View and hoped that they will continue their support in making the Academic fraternity better learned citizen.