(News) IIT To Connect 2,000 Engineering Colleges Through EDUSAT
IIT To Connect 2,000 Engineering Colleges Through EDUSAT
Indian
Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B) successfully
launched the live telecast programs of its courses through ISRO's
educational satellite, EDUSAT. Hundreds of students across the country attended
the session by just sitting in their respective colleges.
IIT-B has already set up 50 Student Interactive Terminals
(SIT) in the country. The premier technological institute is now planning to
attract many more students to its programs by connecting the facility to over
2,000 engineering colleges across the country. Students of these colleges would
be able to study the same course just as their counterparts in IIT
Mumbai.
"The most important thing about this programme is that these courses are
transmitted free of cost to the colleges with the help of free bandwidth
provided by the Indian Space Research Organization," Professor
Kannan Moudgalya told reporters.
"We began this programme from January 2 with 12 courses, out of the 500
courses offered in IIT Mumbai through EDUSAT for undergraduates and
postgraduates. We will be transmitting five additional courses through WEB CAST,"
he added.
Prof Moudgalya also clarified that the quality of teaching through EDUSAT is
same as what IIT students study in the campus. But IIT will neither hold exams,
nor do any evaluation or give grades for the students from remote locations, he
added.
The main objective of this programme is to help engineering students in the
remotest places to receive quality Education
at par with the IIT standard. They can get absolute benefit from the IIT
syllabus and standard and also interact with IIT professors and students live
and offline
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