Engineering teachers get trained in IIT B

Updated on: Friday, December 11, 2009

Mumbai: To enhance teaching in core engineering and science subjects, the IIT-B has taken an initiative to train teachers of engineering colleges across the country.

The two-week long pilot workshop on 'effective teaching / learning of computer programming' begins on December 14 at IIT-B will be reaching over 800 engineering college teachers from 22 different centres in the country.

The e-outreach programme implemented under national mission on education through Information and Communication Technology (ICT) of the ministry of Human Resource Development utilise EDUSAT network of Indian Space Research Organisation, Dr Kalpana Kannan, Manager of e-Outreach Project said today.

Once this pilot project, which is meant to give a flavour of IIT's teaching style to engineering colleges, becomes successful, 12 more such workshops, Kannan said, adding that all these workshops will conducted free of cost.

Engineering teachers get trained in IIT B

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