A Project By MHRD Govt. of India
Quality Enhancement in
Engineering Education (QEEE)
Pilot Program Center : VPCOE Baramati
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Reforms for Quality improvement in
Technical Education
• Concerted effort to enhance the quality of Indian
engineering education and bridge the quantityquality gap through
• Technological interventions
• Empowering Teachers/educators
• Suggesting policy reforms
• To follow on a three pronged approach targeting
students, faculty and managemen
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Approach
Direct to student
Program
Program on
Teacher Training
Policy
Recommendations
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The Direct to Student program
• Goal: to utilise high quality pedagogical resources to
enhance learning in a wider student community
• Integration of top quality resources in the form of
instructors and multimedia resources into followed
curriculum and methods of teaching
• Planned modules for this include Live classes, Tutorials,
Virtual Labs, MOOCs and Vocational Augmentation
Courses
– to be delivered to 100 engineering colleges (mostly
TEQUIP) in a pilot implementation form January 14
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Program on Teacher Training
• Tackling twin issues of faculty shortage and
quality teacher-student interaction
• Two approaches
– Driving best UG students to become teachers
of tomorrow
• Encourage bright UG students to “Teach and Earn”
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while studying and to provide them with top class
training providing them attractive teaching cum research
career
– Five-level Continuous Teacher Training programs and
Certifications over ten years
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Teacher Training for 500 colleges
• Teachers training in ‘teaching pedagogy’ as
well as ‘specific subjects’
– mode of delivery to be a combination of in-person
as well as technology-enabled
– Workshops to be held for both kinds of training
• Pedagogy training on technology enabled learning,
verbal and written articulation abilities
• Training on subjects through creation of training hubs
to deliver training over vacations
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Pilot from January 2014 for 100 selected colleges
QEEE
Direct to Students Program
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Direct to Student Program
• Integration of top quality scholastic inputs into
current learning and teaching practices
• Program modules include:
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Live Classes
Tutorials
Virtual Labs
Vocational Augmentation
MOOC’s
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Live Classes
• Fifteen Live Classes for selected Courses for B.Tech.2nd,
4th and 6th semester
– To be conducted by faculty members from IITM, IITB,
IITD
and IITK (selected from the list with highest ranking
– in student feedback for three consecutive years at
IITs)
classes to projected in remote classrooms enabling all
– students to learn simultaneously
• Local teacher should be present in the class
Two-way interactions between the course instructor and
students/ local faculty
• Rest of the course is to be handled by the local faculty
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Tutorials
• A model that enables an external tutor to
provide remote tutorials to a small group of
about 30 students
– The tutor would be a senior student or a recently
graduated person from industry
• Tutors will be provided all material and trained
– Sessions planned as problem solving classes
– Increased scope for interaction and “camaraderie”
between student and tutor promote a
“mentoring” culture
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Virtual Labs
• Real lab experiment prototype made available to students
based on content and resources sourced from IIT’s and
other premier institutes
– Students get to conduct experiments based on a set of prior
instructions and loaded theory content
– A remote tutor (in addition to local teacher) to assist in labs
– 5 Labs have been shortlisted for the pilot program as follows:
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Digital Signal Processing Lab, IITM
Physical Sciences lab, Amritha University
Electrical Machines Lab, IIT G
Virtual Smart Structures and Dynamics Lab , IIT
Delhi
Micromachining Lab, COE Pune
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Vocational Augmentation Courses
• “Off curriculum” courses aimed at providing
additional skills
– Make students industry ready and improve employability
• May be implemented as a classroom training program with live
intervention by remote tutor
—Wifi Security and Management (IITM), planned for the pilot is
to implemented in this manner
• Courses may also be designed as web based training
— Courses for the pilot planned in this manner include
• English for employment (BC)
• SciLab (IITB)
• GIMP (IITB) OSCAD (IITB)
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MOOC
(Massive open online courses)
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Courses are made available to learn via web:
similar to the ones offered by MIT, Coursera
• To be supplemented by online quizzes for
students to master concepts and engage as a
community as well
• Three courses identified for the pilot
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Program Delivery
– The program will be delivered through, and
accessed from a software platform created for this
purpose
– In addition to launching content, the platform will
provide features for live intervention, and promote
interaction between the remote teacher and
students
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Whiteboard, screen share / document share etc. help
simulate a classroom situation
Video-chat, Q & A etc. promote interaction
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Schematics of Delivery
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Live lecture at
IIT
At the college
Recording
DTH
dish
Institute
Server
Set top box
Cloud server
At the
IIT
Moderator
Laptop
Classroom at Engg.
college
with two screens
Tutorial :Schematics of Delivery
At the college
Institute
Server
Remote tutor
A small batch of
30
students on LAN
Students could log in from outside the institute as
long as they have good connectivity
Virtual Lab: Schematic of Delivery
Local teacher
Remote tutor
Institute
Server
A batch of 60
students on
LAN
College 1
College 4
College 2
College 3
Students could log in from outside the
institute as long as they have good
connectivity
Delivery plan
• 25 hours of training
– 5 saturdays, 5 hours per day
• Local facilitators (senior students) to be indentified
and sent to IITM for hands on training
• Remote tutors identified, who will each be logged on
to 5 colleges simultaneously.
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