With the purpose to change ways of learning in higher education, the Department of Collegiate and Technical Education (DCTE), Karnataka under its “Help Educate” initiative on Wednesday entered into an MoU with IT major Infosys. This MoU was signed on Wednesday at Vidhana Soudha in presence of state Higher Education Minister Dr CN Ashwatha Narayana.
The minister said that this will benefit about 5 lakh students and faculty belonging to higher education. He also added that the move will facilitate blended learning and industry readiness of learners as per the aspirations of National Education Policy (NEP) – 2020. As per this MoU, Infosys will tie up with the DTCE to train the faculty on a regular basis, and to begin with, training of 200 teachers will be conducted at the Mysuru Infosys campus soon.
“The MoU includes three components of providing access to Infosys Springboard which has more than 4,900 courses and 1.6 Lakh learning resources, providing faculty development program and supporting the government in setting up digital infrastructure by donating 15,000 debonded computers,” concludes Narayana.
