Teacher Training Program For Certificate in Information Technology Empower Yourself 9/23/20151 International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad

Agenda Introduction Conception Administration IT Certificate Course Content Teacher Training Participating Colleges in the first year The next steps 9/23/20152 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 employability 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 9/23/20153 International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad

Objective To setup a training program which will train 12,000 students per year in engineering colleges 9/23/20154 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, so that  Students gain IT skills to use during their degree program as well as after graduation The training focuses on “Learning by Doing” methodology rather than on giving lectures and conducting exams 9/23/20155 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 9/23/20156 International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad

Learning by Doing A great way to learn something is to do it How do you learn to be good at something?  By doing it…... and doing it again as needed 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 9/23/20157 International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad

Curriculum Designed for employability Not static Continuously enhanced with inputs from industry… … that hire the students trained on this curriculum 9/23/20158 International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad

IT Certificate Course Content Object Oriented Programming (15 Modules) Data Structures (25 modules)  Develop a mini search engine in Java Computational Thinking (12 Modules) Linux (8 modules) IT Workshop and Soft Skills (20 Modules) 9/23/20159 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 of budgets, taxes etc.  Expressing computations using algorithms 9/23/ International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad

Teacher Training Program Duration of 3+ months at IIIT-H Content  IT Certificate Course Content  Advanced IT topics  Soft Skills Training  Art of Mentoring  Operational Procedures of the IT training 9/23/ 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 9/23/2015 International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad 12

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 9/23/ 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 9/23/ 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) 9/23/ 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 9/23/ International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad

Present list of participating colleges 9/23/2015 International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad 17

The Next Steps … To be one of the 20+ participating colleges in this batch  Complete “Expression of Interest” form  Complete Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) 9/23/ International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad

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