MIT Centre for Future Skills Excellence Concludes the 5-Week, Short Term Course on Artificial Intelligence for Teachers

PUNE, India, Oct. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- MIT Centre for Future Skills Excellence (MIT FuSE), MIT Art, Design and Technology University concluded its unique 5-week and 2-credit Short-Term Course on Artificial Intelligence in Education that attempted to upskill teachers from various colleges and schools all over India, with current and future emerging technologies. Short Term Course on Artificial Intelligence was organized from September 27 to October 29, 2021, in association with MIT School of Education & Research. course was supported by CloudThat Technologies, InnoWise India, CITIS Educon Ltd, Edupeer & Navabharat. This course was curated keeping in mind technological up-gration of teachers to keep up with dynamic classrooms. Short-Term Course on AI was initiated & curated by MIT Centre for Future Skills Excellence to bridge gap between classroom teaching and vancement in online teaching with use of Artificial Intelligence. MIT Centre for Future Skills Excellence right from inception, has been promoting awareness on option of emerging technologies to generate smart & employable technocrats with aim to uplift, upgre & upskill working professionals. Around 10,000+ students, tech enthusiasts & working professionals have been benefited from initiatives & certifications.

AI is alrey being used in education, notably in form of skill development tools and testing systems. As AI educational solutions improve, it is hoped that AI will be able to help bridge gaps in learning and teaching, allowing schools and teachers to accomplish more than ever before. AI can improve efficiency, personalisation, and ministrative responsibilities, giving teachers more time and freedom to focus on understanding and aptability. objective for AI in education is for m to work toger for best outcome for students by using best features of machines and teachers. This was motivation behind curating this exclusive course for teachers.

Teachers from all over India actively participated in training on various topics covering basics to vanced concepts in Artificial Intelligence. Eminent Industry veterans like Dr. Raja N. Moorthy, Member visory Board Kirusa Inc, Mr. Arpit Yav, Senior Data Scientist INSOFE, Ms. Rupa Singh, CEO and Founder AI-Beehive, Dr. Dharmendra Singh Rajput, Associate Professor, VIT Vellore, Ms. Prnya Paithankar, Senior Trainer and Consultant and Mr. Tushar Kute, Researcher and Senior Trainer, MITU Research, conducted training sessions and engaged practical sessions using Industrial Case Studies which span over 5 weeks.

Distinguished Professor from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, Prof. Kannan Moudgalya, Erach and Meheroo Mehta vanced Education Technology Chair, graced occasion as Chief Guest of Valedictory Function. He shared his initiatives in upskilling students from humble backgrounds. His iconic project, 'Spoken Tutorial' is an educational multimedia platform that has won numerous awards, funded by National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and launched by Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD), Government of India. Here, one can self-teach various Free and Open-Source Software. self-paced, multilingual courses allow anybody with a computer and a desire to learn from anywhere, at any time, and in ir preferred language. He believes that everyone deserves equal opportunity to reach pyramid of success. He congratulated teachers on ir enthusiasm and urge in learning new emerging technologies. He also commended & appreciated endeavours by MIT Centre for Future Skills Excellence for upskilling & reskilling initiatives.

Mr. Sushant Gankush, Founder & MD, InnoWise India, also graced occasion. He presented an overview on RiYSA Labs, a unique online platform that can provide students with a rich, engaging experience and make it easy for teachers to monitor ir progress using live virtual machine views. He encouraged education fraternity to understand balance between educational organisations and technology. He appreciated teachers' efforts in skilling up for a better teaching-learning experience in new hi-tech classrooms. Dr. Vinnie Jauhari, Director of Education vocacy at Microsoft Corporation India Limited sent her best wishes to participants. She believes in Institutional excellence and setting global benchmarks in higher education, executive education and learning. She congratulated teachers who have started ir journey of upskilling towards emerging technologies.

Shri Tushar Kute shared his experience of training teachers who h joined from all corners of India. He expressed his gratitude towards all teachers for being participative, sincere and attentive throughout training sessions. He said that this training would always be special to him as he h good fortune of training ones who were alrey working on noble cause of nation-building. Dr. Asawari Bhave - Gudipudi, Dean, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, MIT Art, Design and Technology University has vised education fraternity to explore Artificial Intelligence as it is an integral part of lives and careers of current and future generations. A few teacher participants also shared ir remarkable experience from a total newbie in AI to a fairly knowledgeable AI enthusiast. For m, it was a total deviation from regular classrooms of mamatics or science or languages to some challenging and exciting technology Gyan. From anxiety in beginning to accomplishment of becoming reasonably tech-savvy, ir stories of an exciting journey said it all.

Prof. Suraj Bhoyar, Project Director, MIT Centre for Future Skills Excellence shared intent and summary of 5-week, 2-credit course which was initiated exclusively for teachers looking to upskill mselves with Artificial Intelligence. MIT Centre for Future Skills Excellence (MIT FuSE) firmly believes in potential of teachers in building future of nation and such training is an attempt to help teachers with ir endeavour in keeping up with National Education Policy (NEP) 2020's and guidelines by CBSE to mandate AI Training in Schools, Colleges to spre awareness on emerging technologies for students right from classromms. He promised more such short courses for tech enthusiasts in future. He also reiterated that AI is not a futuristic vision, but rar something that is here today and being integrated with Education and deployed for better student-teacher interactions and go hand in hand with exponential technologies like IoT, Data Analytics, Robotics, Cyber Security, Cloud Computing, Blockchain, etc.

short-term course on Artificial Intelligence was inaugurated on Sept. 27, 2021 with insights & blessings from Top Global Artificial Intelligence Influencers and industry veterans, Mr. Utpal Chakraborty, TEDx speaker & Former He of Artificial Intelligence, YES Bank Ltd., Dr. Anoop V.S., Senior Scientist (Research & Training) from IIITMK Kerala and Mr. Arpit Yav, Senior Data Scientist from INSOFE. valedictory ceremony concluded with a pledge to build smart and enterprising India from teacher participants & educators. Prof. Vilas Khedekar, Prof. Ajita Deshmukh, & Dr. Priya Singh have taken efforts to curate short-term course on AI in Education for teachers. Ms. Smruti Shelke from MIT Centre for Future Skills Excellence (MIT FuSE) compered ceremony along with Prof. Komal Gagare from MIT School of Education & Research.

MIT FuSE has curated exclusive courses keeping up with current job market requirements of experts in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Enterprise Resource Planning, Robotic Process Automation, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security & Blockchain Technology. Budding tech-enthusiasts can check MIT FuSE Website for more information on career opportunities in various emerging technologies and guidance on pursuing same.

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