AICTE sponsored ATAL programme commences at NITW

Prof Rao urged the audience by helping them see truth beyond the filters of fear, anxiety, and disagreement, and be hopeful about the future by accepting and welcoming online teaching with all its benefits.

Warangal Urban: National Institute of Technology (NIT), Warangal, Prof N V Ramana Rao said Covid-19 had triggered a digital revolution in the country and NIT Warangal was utilising the time as an opportunity to transform the education system though innovative teaching learning methods, collaborations, Faculty Development Programmes (FDPs) and other engagements.

He was speaking after inaugurating a five-day AICTE sponsored AICTE Training and Learning Academy Program (ATAL) on productivity enhancement titled ‘Technology, Industry and Education 4.0 (TIE 4.0)’ being organised by the Department of Humanities and Social Science (H&SS) of NITW on an online platform here on Tuesday.

Addressing the participants, Prof Rao urged the audience by helping them see truth beyond the filters of fear, anxiety, and disagreement, and be hopeful about the future by accepting and welcoming online teaching with all its benefits.

The coordinator of the FDP, Dr B Spoorthi, Assistant professor in the Department H&SS, said the ‘ATAL FDP – TIE 4.0’ is the second in the series of FDPs on ‘Education 4.0’,

“The objective of this FDP is to present a 360-degree view of the paradigm shifts in higher education caused due to the technological advancements and Industrial revolution. We are tying and braiding technology, industry and education together in this TIE 4.0 programme. We have three experts from industry, eight from academia and two in the technology fields as resource persons in the FDP,” she added.

Head of the Department of H&SS, Dr K Madhavi delivering the welcome address spoke on the relevance of such academic ventures and on how the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences of the institute is working relentlessly and taking up initiatives and projects, especially in Covid times.

The FDP received an overwhelming response from scholars and faculty members from across the country and from various domains of which 150 participants were shortlisted, 50 percent shortlisted are from non-engineering backgrounds from AICTE approved institutions.

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