Kapil Sibal inaugurates IIT Bombay workshop to train 10 thousand teachers
Kapil Sibal inaugurates IIT Bombay workshop to train 10 thousand teachers through ICT Engineering college teachers from 168 remote centres interact with IIT staff in Mumbai In a first of its kind experiment in the world, Union Minister of Human Resource Development Mr. Kapil Sibal today inaugurated the 10,000 teacher training programme conducted by IIT Bombay under the ‘Talk to a Teacher’ project of the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NME-ICT) of the Ministry of Human Resource Development. Training for 10,000 engineering college teachers from across the country is being conducted leveraging the broadband network and ICT tools. This training programme is conducted through 168 remote centres located all across India. The lectures in this course are delivered from IIT Bombay by Professors of IIT Bombay and IIT Madras. Through the software A-VIEW, audio-video connectivity is provided between all the centres and IIT Bombay. The course c...