AICTE is keen on Transforming Engineering Colleges into Hybrid Learning Centers

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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.?This project is being planned as part of the National Digital Education Architecture (NDEAR), which aims to achieve a unified digital infrastructure as laid down in NEP 2020.

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):

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●??????To offer accreditation as a means of quality control.

●??????To keep an eye on, assess, and finance the priority areas in education.

●??????To preserve equality in certification and prizes.

●??????To oversee and improve India’s technical education system.

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. This would further enhance teaching-learning outcomes and comprehension in engineering universities.

What’s 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.

Simply put, the document states that under the NDEAR framework, the government will play the role of an enabler by providing a framework in which technology can be built by the government, society, or institutions.

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.

Every faculty knows that all students learn differently; thus, the hybrid model will benefit the faculties by focusing on all students directly as well as indirectly(virtually); for instance, students can use visual, textual, research-based, and video-based lessons in recording, as well as live classes, depending on their needs.

Especially 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.

Hence, in 2022, Hybrid Infrastructure is no more a choice but a substantial need for all Institutions.

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

1. Provide live hybrid classes with automatically recorded and distributed lectures.
2. Get a fully supported platform for conducting hybrid classes, facilitating collaborative learning, and content sharing.
3. Seamless integration with Moodle, Blackboard, Canvas, D2L, and other LMSs already present with institutions.

We firmly believe that “any campus can be transformed into a Next-Gen Institution with the right set of collaboration, strategy, and technology”.

Hence, if you are a part of a college/university and want to transform the campus into a hybrid learning center today, reach out to us at [email protected]