TEQIP (Technical Education Quality Improvement program) is a World Bank assisted National level project of MHRD-GoI. To administer TEQIP-II at IIT Guwahati, a Knowledge Incubation Cell (KIC), sanctioned by MHRD under section 3.1.4 sub-component 1.3: Faculty development for Effective Teaching (Pedagogical Training), was set up in February 2014, which is attached to CET. TEQIP-II, initially sanctioned up to 2015, is extended till October 2016.

Objectives:

• Broadly, the objectives of this national level MHRD project are classified as:

• Promotion of Academic excellence

• Networking of Institutions for Quality enhancement and Resource sharing

• Quality and outreach of services to Industry and Economy.

In particular, the objectives of KIC under TEQIP are:

• Coordinate imparting of Quality Circle Training programs/internship/opportunity to enhance UG, PG & PhD curricula/collaborative research for faculties from TEQIP mapped Institutions.

• Innovation in Content & Curricula of Technical Education, integrating multidisciplinary approach.

• Initiate Quality Circles in specific Knowledge Disciplines to harvest best practices in Pedagogy & Knowledge management.

• Formation and management of complex virtual digital delivery systems required by various technical disciplines.

• Conduct & Coordinate Short-term courses & Workshops in collaboration with Departments & Centers.

• Facilitate organizing of Seminars, Symposiums & Conferences to interchange results/ideas - with themes in Education Development, Instructional Design, Communications, deployment of Learning content and Pedagogy, Value education, Personality development etc.

• Coordinate short-term Internships & visits of students and faculties from project-institutions in collaboration with Departments. Facilitate faculties of these institutions to            explore pursuing PhD related work at IITG.

Please visit http://shilloi.iitg.ernet.in/~cet/teqip.html for more details

 

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