Event: PIVOT 2010 Agenda: Strategies for Strengthening Inter Institute Interaction Speaker: Seema Shah, Principal VIT Target Audience: Principals, TPOs, HoDs- Comps, IT of Engineering colleges affiliated to Mumbai University

1. Strategies for Strengthening Inter-
Institute Interaction
Seema Shah-Principal, VIT

2. Agenda
• Establish a Consortium of colleges
• Share best practices among Institutes
• Initiate interaction among institutes at
– Institute level– Institute level
– TPO level
– HoD level

3. As a nation:
• We are not a third world
• Developing nation
• We have loud clear footprints in terms of
technology developmentstechnology developments
• World is getting flatter
• People are:
– Networked, net ziens with net vices
– Cloud Commune 2010

4. Scenario today
• The technological revolution:
– New types of jobs for graduates
– Changed nature of the classroom because of Internet/ mobile
devices
• The information explosion• The information explosion
– Huge and rapidly increasing quantity of information widely
available
– Lack of review and control of information quality
– Shift from remembering facts to finding and evaluating
information

5. Expectations from Graduates-1
• Education today is undergoing a new cycle of profound
change worldwide as students prepare to participate in the
global economy.
• Graduates today need to possess:
– Creativity,
– Problem-solving,
– Communication
– Analytical thinking

6. Expectations from Graduates-2
• Must now develop the attitudes and skills necessary to function
globally, right from the time they first enter the workforce
• Empowered through the mastery of intellectual and practical
skills
Informed by knowledge about the natural and social worlds and• Informed by knowledge about the natural and social worlds and
about forms of inquiry basic to these studies
• Responsible for their personal actions and for civic values.

7. Education reform Initiative
• Strategic plan for reforms in education
• Proposed and are implementing PanchRatna to achieve
global scale and quality through:
– Excellence in research by promoting innovation and
entrepreneurshipentrepreneurship
– Focus on faculty development and technology usage
– Learning from showcased initiatives and global collaborations
– Conducive policy and governance environment
– PanIIT Summit Report

8. Networking
• Resource sharing
• Performance
• Synergy

10. Inter Institute Networking
• Openness at all tiers (Principals, HoDs, TPOs and faculties)
• Tech savvyness (ICT in education)
• Sharing Best Practices to focus on:
– Improving employability of students– Improving employability of students
– Inculcating R & D culture among faculty
– Industry Institute interaction

11. Best Practices
• Varieties of Excellence
– Quality of curriculum
– Quality of teaching
– Research– Research
– ‘Responsiveness’ or relevance to ‘service’ activities
such as research contracts or consultancies

13. Strategies
• Develop Institute level database for resource sharing (faculty
expertise, Learning resources)
– Interaction of Subject experts
– Sharing of Project ideas and inputs from Project guides
• Research projects – collaboration• Research projects – collaboration
• Conferences for inculcating R&D culture
• STTPs and Workshops for faculty development (Teachers as
Learners )
• Syllabus Orientation Programmes for academic competency for
delivering curriculum

14. The Learner for 21st century!
• The technical skills, the people skills, and the innovation skills
• Has the capability:
– Knows everything
– Can do anything
– Works with anybody anywhere– Works with anybody anywhere
– Imagines and can make the imagination a reality
Reference: The Engineering Profession in the 21st Century – educational needs
and societal challenges facing the profession by Diran Apelian

15. Conferences and STTPs at VIT
• National Conference: Innovations in Electronics,
Computers and IT in March 2011
• STTPs in January 2011
1. Information Storage Management & Disaster Recovery (IMSDR):1. Information Storage Management & Disaster Recovery (IMSDR):
Jointly Organized by EMC Corporation & VIT
2. Trends on RF and Microwave Engineering” by Electronics and
Telecommunication Department
3. Teaching Methodologies for Contemporary Environment by
Humanities Department

16. Strategies for Strengthening Inter-
Institute Interaction

17. Summarization
1. Interaction with Industry to understand future IT job market
demands
2. Awareness about Introduction of a new subject : ‘Information
Storage Management and Disaster Recovery ‘ and its relevance in
the industry
– Plans to make faculty ready for this new subject
3. Establish a Consortium of colleges across Mumbai and those
affiliated to the University of Mumbai:
– Share best practices among institutes at Institute level, TPO level and HoD
level
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18. Questions ?