Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Industry Electives @ Academics




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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