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IIT-B to train teachers and students through online portal
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 21 December 2010, 18:20 IST
Mumbai: Last year in December, The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B) had trained faculties of engineering colleges through Satellite television. Now they have found another innovative programme to empower teacher training in colleges - Online national-level teacher training. Collaborating with Amrita University, a Tamil Naidu based University; IIT-B has launched an online module for 1,000 teachers from 500 engineering colleges across the country participating through 32 nodal centres.
The work shop is for two weeks long, which will purely focus on database management systems. This is the first time that a course of this scale is been conducted for over 1,000 participants. Professor DB Phatak is the backbone of this initiative. He said that the programme was funded by the National Mission on Education via Information and Communication Technology (NME-ICT).
The model will further launch an open source where subject-wise portals will contain teaching-learning material, question banks and audio-video-recorded lectures. It will be an online portal where students, teachers, and professionals can interact with each other. It will also allow students to post their conceptual questions online and get live answers from experts.
