Bangalore: It is infact the confirm news that the tech giants of the country are
gearing up to see people getting high quality education and make them
job- ready. Seeing the rise of unemployment in the country. The step is taken up by seven of the leading IITs which includes Delhi, Madras, Kharagpur, Kanpur,
Roorkee, Bombay and Guwahati and IT
big companies like Infosys, TCS, Cognizant, and industry lobby Nasscom, to
launch a bunch of free, online courses that could help 100,000-150,000
with education and jobs, reports Times Of India.
The participating IITs The IITs together with the IT companies which includes Infosys, TCS, Cognizant, and Nasscom for into a biggest industry-academia partnership to help students and professionals access top-quality course content and meet specific industry demands.
The courses will be offered using massive online courses (MOOCs), a model accepted globally for higher education. At first, the IITs will run three mini modules of a computer science course that includes programming, algorithm, and data structures.
Whereas each module will have 12 lectures, which sums up to 36 classes over 12 weeks. And in the later stages the core engineering courses like VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) embedded systems, and others, and general sciences will be part of online academia. Persons who enrol into the courses will be eligible to write proctored exams for a minimal fee and get certificates, and for the computer science courses, IIT will give certification.
It will have about 15 faculty members from the seven older IITs who will form the faculty of the online course set up, and are currently designing the course.
The search giant Google is providing its Course Builder platform for hosting MOOCs, HackerRank will provide their web portal, to practise programming assignments and get them verified and graded. Cognizant will make available infrastructure at its training facilities during off-peak times, such as weekends, to enable students to take tests and get certified.
The participating IITs The IITs together with the IT companies which includes Infosys, TCS, Cognizant, and Nasscom for into a biggest industry-academia partnership to help students and professionals access top-quality course content and meet specific industry demands.
The courses will be offered using massive online courses (MOOCs), a model accepted globally for higher education. At first, the IITs will run three mini modules of a computer science course that includes programming, algorithm, and data structures.
Whereas each module will have 12 lectures, which sums up to 36 classes over 12 weeks. And in the later stages the core engineering courses like VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) embedded systems, and others, and general sciences will be part of online academia. Persons who enrol into the courses will be eligible to write proctored exams for a minimal fee and get certificates, and for the computer science courses, IIT will give certification.
It will have about 15 faculty members from the seven older IITs who will form the faculty of the online course set up, and are currently designing the course.
The search giant Google is providing its Course Builder platform for hosting MOOCs, HackerRank will provide their web portal, to practise programming assignments and get them verified and graded. Cognizant will make available infrastructure at its training facilities during off-peak times, such as weekends, to enable students to take tests and get certified.
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