Teacher Training Program For Certificate in Information Technology Empower Yourself 6/29/20161 International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad Sandhya Kode Director, Training & Development Chief Mentor

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Agenda Introduction Conception Administration IT Certificate Course Content Teacher Training Participating Colleges in the first year Participating Colleges in the summer /29/20163 International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad

Introduction The Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT), in collaboration with International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-H) has set up an IT Certificate program... …with a goal to increase productivity of engineering students by enhancing quality of IT education in Engineering Colleges IIIT-H will design curriculum, prepare digital content and provide teacher training for engineering colleges 6/29/20164 International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad

Objective To setup a training program which will train 12,000+ students per year in engineering colleges 6/29/20165 International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad

Conception The IT certificate course is outside the degree curriculum Introduce the program to students right after their first year of four years, so that  Students gain IT skills to use during the remaining 3 years of their degree program as well as after graduation The training focuses on “Learning by Doing” methodology rather than on listening to lectures and writing exams 6/29/20166 International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad

The Plan For the IT certificate course, IIIT-H will…  Design curriculum  Prepare digital content  Provide teacher training Train faculty nominees of 10+ colleges starting Dec’ 2008 Select 20+ colleges this year At the participating college… … 150, 300, 600 students will be trained in first 3 years of participation 6/29/20167 International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad

Learning by Doing The best way to learn something is by doing it How do you learn to be good at something?  By doing it…... and doing it better the next time.. Students participate in scenarios close to what they will be doing in the industry There are no formal classroom lectures  Students listen to recorded lectures while solving a real life problem  Students simulate situations with role play 6/29/20168 International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad

Curriculum Designed for improving productivity Not static Continuously enhanced with inputs from industry… … that hire the students trained on this curriculum 6/29/20169 International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad

IT Certificate Course Content Computational Thinking (12 Modules) Linux (8 modules) Object Oriented Programming (15 Modules) Data Structures (25 modules)  Develop a mini search engine in Java IT Workshop and Soft Skills (20 Modules) 6/29/ International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad

Post IT certificate program A student will be comfortable in…  Organizing data using fundamental data structures  Mapping real life problems into programs  Developing object oriented programs  Using OS utilities in Windows and Linux  Working with real life spreadsheets  Expressing computations using algorithms 6/29/ International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad

Teacher Training Program Duration of 3+ months at IIIT-H Content  IT Certificate Course Content in greater depth  Advanced IT topics  Soft Skills Training  Art of Mentoring  Operational Procedures of the IT training 6/29/ International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad

About the teacher training program Residential program 6 days a week (Monday through Saturday) Mentor trainees get to  Engage fully in training  Embrace the “Learning by Doing” methodology  Adopt the mentoring approach  Learn to implement the program at their college 6/29/2016 International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad 13

Program Participation Participating colleges must satisfy the following requirements:  Infrastructure  Computer Specification (Intel Pentium IV, 512 MB RAM, 80 GB Hard disk, CD-ROM drive)  LAN Specification (All systems connected with 100MBPS cabling)  Internet Specification (2 MBPS bandwidth)  Nominate 5 faculty members for the training program  Commit to implement the training program in their college 6/29/ International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad

Program Administration Responsibilities of IIIT-H:  Design curriculum and prepare digital content  Provide training for the faculty nominees  Provide support for setting up computer labs  Help monitor the program 6/29/ International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad

Program Administration (Contd…..) Responsibilities of participating colleges  Schedule the program in the college calendar  By adopting one of the models of execution Model 1: Course Duration: 16 weeks; 10 hours per week, 2 hours per day  Model 2: Course Duration: 32 weeks; 5 hours per week, 1 hour per day Model 3: Course Duration: 32 weeks; Self paced (a total of 160 hours)  Provide monitoring inputs to IIIT- H  Provide feedback from hiring industry 6/29/ International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad

 Commit to execute the program  Nominate 5 faculty members for teacher training  Dedicate faculty/ Hire mentors  Eligibility criteria for the faculty/ mentors  Graduates of B.Tech (IT and CS preferred), MCA / M.Tech  Send above faculty to be trained at IIIT-H from May-09 to August- 09 Program Administration (Continued) 6/29/ International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad

Present list of participating colleges 6/29/2016 International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad 18

The Participating Colleges this summer … 20+ colleges completed…  “Expression of Interest” form  Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)  Sent 5 faculty members for the Teacher Training to IIIT-H  We now have 100+ faculty nominees from 20+ colleges… 6/29/ International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad

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