‘Train 10,000 Teachers’ Project of IIT Bombay Receives Digital India Excellence Award 2017

‘Train 10,000 Teachers (T10KT)’, one of the unique projects of IIT Bombay has been selected for ‘Digital India Excellence Award 2017’. IIT Bombay implemented the T10KT project in collaboration with Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

The PAN-IIM World Management Conference authority selected T10KT project under the category ‘Education’. Minister of Human Resource Development, Mr. Prakash Javadekar will present the award to IIT Bombay at the valedictory ceremony of PAN-IIM World Management Conference on December 16, 2017.

The T10kt project of IIT Bombay was funded by MHRD. Professor D. B. Pathak of Department of Computer Science and Engineering is the Professor-In-Charge of this project.

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The teachers training programme was initiated by IIT Bombay in the year 2009. The premier institute took up this project under ‘Empowerment of Teachers/Students’ scheme sponsored by National Mission of Education (through ICT). The scheme lays major emphasis on associating with engineering colleges to enhance the teaching skills of faculty in science and core engineering subjects. In 2009, the project focused on providing training to 1,000 teachers. In 2013, the programme was scaled further, to train up to 10,000 teachers.

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The project aims to address a crucial subset of significant issues and adopts an approach or solution to address these issues through the effective use of modern technologies. The project utilises the ICT enabled process involving both asynchronous and synchronous mode to actually reach out and involve/ engage a large number of teachers and students through them.

IIT Bombay and IIT Kharagpur are aiming to train 1,50,000 teachers in the next three years through this project.