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EDUCATION

NEWS AND

EVENTS

Featured Article

Considering India’s strength as 3rd largest education system

having more than 60,000 Higher Education Institutions with

huge infrastructure in place and produces more than 4 crore

graduates every year to job market, there is need for Indian

Educational Institutions to lead and drive innovation in its very

fabric.

I wish the team at upGrad

Campus great success

for their first edition

of Campus Connect

magazine. Continue to

innovate, inspire and strive

for excellence in Education.

”

Nov | 2022

1. Competency-Based Learning

Competence refers to an individual’s ability to practice

the knowledge acquired over time, and today, HEIs should

focus on providing real-world applications of knowledge

and skills along with a theoretical framework. Innovation in

education helps prepare today’s students for the dynamic

workplace of tomorrow by providing them opportunities to

develop skills and competencies.

2. Contemporary Pedagogies

The quality of an educational system depends mostly upon

the quality of its teachers and teaching practices, also

known as pedagogies. Today, there are around 5 “clusters”

of innovative pedagogies:

• Blended learning, where students can attend

to teaching and learning activities from anywhere

and anytime, taking education beyond the classroom

level.

• Gamification, in which content is presented

with gaming elements, fosters better engagement

and knowledge retention. Computational Thinking,

uses Information and Communication Technology as

a platform to help students enhance their problem-

solving and reasoning skills.

• Flipped Classrooms, where students learn

the outline of concepts at home and use classroom

time for deeper learning and understanding through

teacher-led peer-to-peer discussions.

•

Project-Based Learning, where students are

encouraged to learn by active engagement in real-

world, industry-relevant projects. Together, these

clusters provide a baseline for teachers to innovate

themselves and provide a meaningful learning

experience for students.

3. Open Curriculum

A quality curriculum is never a one-and-done initiative.

Revisiting and updating it regularly allows for relevant

topics of today to take precedence, helping students to

keep up with the speed of changing technology and trends.

The open curriculum aims to make education more active,

flexible, fluid and personalized to students.

4. Shift in Nature of Faculty

Industry professionals tend to have a deeper understanding

of the inner workings of the professional world. Eminently

qualified industry professionals teaching at colleges and

universities can help turn students into competent and job-

ready graduates. Unique partnerships between these two

sectors - Academia and Industry combine the best of both

worlds. This initiative was recently approved by the UGC,

and I am optimistic that it will be a huge success.

Given that the young minds that today’s educational

system shapes will be those that are leading the charge

for innovation tomorrow, innovation in education are the

need of the hour to strengthen our future generations of

citizens.

Mr. Dipan Sahu

Asst. Innovation Director, Ministry of Education’s

Innovation Cell & AICTE, Govt. of India

Campus Connect

Nov | 2022

AICTE is keen on Transforming

Engineering Colleges into Hybrid Learning Centers

All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), a national-

level apex advisory body, oversees the development and

planning of India’s technical education system. It has recently

devised a plan to convert engineering colleges into hybrid

learning environments across the country. To provide a

personalized and customized educational learning experience

to students, AICTE is keen on taking up this initiative to

create an educational ecosystem that will be lockdown-proof

and can even be accessed from the comforts of their homes.

Aims Of AICTE: Under the AICTE Act, the All India Council

for Technical Education (AICTE) received its legal status in

1987. The AICTE was founded with the following goals in mind,

following the National Policy of Education (1986):

•

To operate as a statutory authority to develop, create

and maintain norms and standards.

•

To offer accreditation as a means of quality control

•

To keep an eye on, assess, and finance the priority areas

in education

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To preserve equality in certification and prizes

•

To oversee and improve India’s technical education

Impact of AICTE’s Move: All thanks to AICTE, soon, students

will be able to receive specialized and tailored education from

the comfort of their homes. All AICTE-approved colleges

across the country are set to gradually transition to hybrid

learning settings, which will be advantageous to more than

70 lakh students. The hybrid model would act as a support

system, allowing the students to master technical complexity

at their own pace.

What is National Digital Education

Architecture?

The Prime Minister introduced the National Digital Education

Architecture (NDEAR) to improve India’s digital educational

infrastructure in February 2021. It is an architectural blueprint

that aims to achieve the goals laid out in the National Education

Policy, 2020, through a unified digital infrastructure in the

education ecosystem.

In 2022, Hybrid

Infrastructure is no

more a choice but a

substantial need for

all Institutions.

News and Events

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Nov | 2022

We firmly believe that

“Any campus can be transformed into a Next-Gen Institution

with the right set of collaboration, strategy, and technology”

Campus Connect

Why Transform Colleges into Hybrid Learning

Spaces?

The choice to make colleges hybrid learning environments would

give students a personalized, customizable, and adaptive way to

learn their course contents. In Engineering colleges, the hybrid

model would provide a support system for the faculties to track

their delivery, content, and modules. It will be easy for them

to keep an update on the resources given to the students and

help them develop their delivery acumen for remote students.

Since the pandemic began, several universities have switched to

hybrid mode. Whether online or offline, hybrid technology offers

a stimulating research community and a learning environment.

Can upGrad Campus help in this

Transformation?

upGrad Campus has a mission to bridge the industry-academia

gap in Higher Education Institutions across the country. It aims

to do so by firstly digitally transforming campuses into next-gen

institutions through its technology solutions. It offers a turnkey

Lecture Capture Solution that enables automatic audio-video

recording of classroom lectures. It provides a platform to store,

manage and distribute classroom lectures, transforming any

higher education institute into an advanced hybrid learning hub.

With our Interactive

Blended Classrooms,

educational institutions

will be able to:

Provide live

hybrid classes with

automatically recorded

and distributed lectures

Get a fully supported

platform for conducting

hybrid classes, facilitating

collaborative learning,

and content sharing

Seamless integration

with Moodle, Blackboard,

Canvas, D2L, other

LMS already present

with institutions

High Time for Students to

Upgrade their Digital Skills,

says AICTE Official

Our programs are designed to

help institutions equip their

students to become capable

and trained to enter and

excel in the practical world,

boosting

placements

and

enrollments.

Management Programs:

Technology Programs:

Cloud DevOps

Data Structures and Algorithms

Data Science

Full Stack Development

Blockchain

Data Analytics

Cyber Security

Digital Marketing

Business Analytics

Product Management

Supply Chain Management

Branding and Advertising

Financial Risk Management

Nov | 2022

The newly appointed chairman of the appellate committee of

AICTE, G.S.N. Raju, stated that Higher Education Institutions

should give utmost priority to skill-oriented training programs.

He stated his strong views while speaking about the importance

of training in digital skills, in accordance with the guidelines of

National Education Policy, 2020. He went on to say that if

institutions focused on digital capabilities, they would receive

higher rankings from the National Assessment and Accreditation

Council (NAAC), the National Board of Accreditation (NBA), and

other bodies and would also receive more enrollment.

Why are New-Age Programs Important for

Institutions?

New-age courses such as Data Science, AIML, Blockchain,

Digital Marketing, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, and Full-

Stack Development are essential because Digital India needs

professionals with these skill sets. Companies in India have been

hiring people for traditional roles, but now they face resource

crunches as these roles have dynamically shifted. Candidates

with new age skillsets often get higher salary packages, and

colleges that can help companies fulfill these demands see

higher student enrolment.

How do These Programs help bag great Opportunities?

The rise in demand to create new products and ensure they run

well, coupled with the popularity of such courses, has led to a

dramatic change in hiring strategies. Earlier, companies focused

on hiring professionals for well-defined roles, but now, they are

hiring them for skills such as analytics and data science. This, in

turn, has led to a change in their hiring strategy, where diverse

skills are given more priority over years of experience. The

change in hiring dynamics and skills is because of the new-age

demand that companies face competi ng in a crowded market.

Courses such as data science, digital marketing, cybersecurity,

cloud computing, and full-stack development give students the

necessary skills to perform well.

Why New-age Skills are Mandatory for the Institution

to Embed in its Curriculum?

The job market has seen software engineering as a career

option for ages, but now, a shift is seen in people opting for Data

Analytics or Data Science as their preferred career option. For

a college to stay industry-relevant and a preferred institution

among students who aspire for these jobs, offering courses at

the cutting-edge of innovation is a must.

How can upGrad Campus help?

Our Job Ready Certification Program includes multiple

industry-relevant certifications, live classes by Industry Experts,

Case Studies, and Projects to enhance a student’s expertise in

new-age domains like Blockchain, Digital Marketing, Cloud

Computing, Full Stack Development, etc which make them

employment ready and enhance their future career prospects.

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