Industry Electives @
Academics
Digital Disruption happen in the areas such as Automation, Analytics, AI,
Robots & IOT.
Electives
should have both, the rigour of academics and the significance of a
practitioner thus, leading to ‘industry
electives’.
For more
Insight please refer Press Release
‘Introduce industry
electives to help students pick careers’
India has
about 1.5 million engineering students graduating each year, most of whom have
analytical abilities, exhibit flexibility and core technical knowledge. On one
hand, there is adequate supply of talent. On the other, the IT industry needs a
large number of employable students. The IT-and-enabled services industry
employs four million graduates. Since it is a service business, it is only as
good as its people. Established organizations typically adopt the hire train-deploy
model for freshers.
Recently, the industry has moved up the value chain,
challenging this model. There is digital disruption due to newer areas such as
automation, analytics, AI and IOT.
Due to the
growing focus on technology spread, organizations are looking at investing in
overall engineering education to build relevant and competitive talent. One of
the avenues for an industry-academia partnership is to strengthen the
electives.
Electives
should have both, the rigour of academics and the relevance of a practitioner thus,
leading to ‘industry electives’.
Industry
electives facilitate access to career paths for students. Institutions’ must
focus on fostering innovative ways for futuristic technologies, faculty, and
student participation in industry related initiatives, and in solving business
and societal problems.
Achieving
this requires academia and industry to collaborate with an open mind. Several
IT organizations, big and small, have been working for the last few years to
bridge the two sides.
This enables
industry to put forth emerging business models, customer requirements,
technology trends and the paradigm shifts in the talent development models.
Broadly, industry can share practices where businesses have been subjected to
powerful forces due to globalisation, and those that have helped the industry
to significantly shape-up and encourage learning as a response to survival.
For
academia, this is an occasion to spot new industry electives, understand the
inter-disciplinary nature of requirements, seek curriculum inputs, and drive
the change through internal board of studies.
At the next
level, the head of the department and faculty, and with additional inputs from
practitioners, should craft a syllabus to build these industry electives.
Faculty development workshops should emphasize on problem-solving,
instructional resources, methodologies, content sources, and working through
case-studies.
The co-creation of industry electives presents a tremendous
opportunity for a deemed-to-be universities and autonomous institutes, who have
a greater academic flexibility to the extent of bringing quick changes to the
system, to keep it vibrant to the needs of industry and vice-versa.
Source |
Hindustan Times | 7th March 2018
Regards
Prof. Pralhad Jadhav
Master of Library & Information Science (NET
Qualified)
Senior Manager @ Knowledge Repository
Khaitan & Co
Twitter Handle | @Pralhad161978
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