Mission10X is a Mission with a vision, which helped me learn new techniques to invoke "learning" in student's minds.

The training sessions developed the necessary skills which can be used by us faculty to make a student ready for today's corporate scenario. The five day "Mission10X Certification Program" made us to think and learn. The resource persons of Mission10X were enthusiastic and zealous. Mission10X is all about "creative thinking and collaborative learning!"

Throughout the 5 days of the Mission10X program, the presentations were lively, interesting, enjoyable, very beneficial, full of suspense and motivating. Usually in the past, I'd attended numerous courses and ended doubtful - so far, Mission10X workshop was the best. You have taken teaching and learning to another level. It will be wonderful for students if all teachers teach using the practical methodologies imparted through this workshop. Beyond of being

just a lot of fun and a great heart opening, this workshop had opened me to new ways and new possibilities. Also have to give special mention to the Mission10X e-portal that is very user friendly, creative and innovative. To enable faculty members to better understand and practice innovative teaching techniques and motivating them for bringing the Innovation in engineering education in India , Mission10X has developed various resource materials. The faculty members are also trained to develop faculty guides in their respective engineering disciplines through various workshops. Each faculty therefore gets benefited from the resource pool generated by the fellow Mission10Xians in addition to their own creation, which they can use while conducting their sessions.

Learner Centric Teaching A learner centric teaching facilitates students learning to higher levels. In this mode of teaching the faculty takes up the role of a mentor, guide, coach, and a facilitator for learning. This helps:

Develop oral communication skills among the students Stimulate critical thinking and helps students clarify idea through discussions

Use a team approach to problem solving while maintaining individual accountability Promote a positive attitude towards the subject matter Build self responsibility for learning among students Foster and develop interpersonal relationships Build self esteem in students Simulate real life situations Promote Student-Faculty interaction and familiarity Current Teaching Proposed Learning Paradigm Paradigm Collectively by Instructors (one By Instructor time) Individually by Instructor for the class Individually by to At the same time for students at their own all students pace of Individually by the Collectively in the student class as teams By Students for this By Instructor Group Assignments through Exams and Instructor through Exams

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First exposure content Understanding the content Testing understanding

Are we corporate ready?

Traditional Group Learning Learning Self planned, In a group where Individual based each member contributes individually and makes learning enjoyable. Team playing skills get honed. Long duration Short duration deadlines deadlines given both to individuals and in groups. Collaborative learning helps cover more grounds in a shorter duration. Last minute Learning on a preparation regular basis through group assignment's and activities. Helps students manage and groom themselves better.

Corporate Ready In the corporate world every project is executed in teams. Hence, team playing skills become very important. Group learning makes a student corporate ready while he/she is in the college. Corporate world works on short(daily/weekly) de adlines vs. long duration deadlines in a college. After learning in collaborative environment, students are better equipped to adapt to the corporate life. In a corporate world, self development and grooming is a must to ensure sustainability. Group learning and self managing traits prepares a student to adapt to the day-to-day work disciplines at corporate.

Answers Answers to be available in text gather from books various sources like Internet, Books, Journals, or Peers by research.

In a corporate world, exact solution is not available for the customers requirements. We need to evaluate solutions and articulate the same by being resourceful. Group learning helps students becomeresourceful and research oriented. Employees may have to complete their assignments by doing Research Seek/Explore. Huge impact on missing deadlines. Group learning and deadlineorientationtakes place while the student is still in college.

Assignments/ho me work based, no major loss on not meeting the deadlines

Assignment and project based with specific deadlines given. A group provides a conducive environment for project completion. Adhering to deadlines makes assignments or projects more challenging.

Paradigm Shift in Teaching/Learning The need of the hour is to introduce innovative teaching

techniques to bring about the teaching- learning paradigm shift.

Challenge is employability Mr.Azim Premji Let me take this opportunity to a share few of my thoughts on the global engineering education and employability scenario. According to a Nasscom estimate, the supply of IT Engineering graduates in India was 95,000 in 2003-04, in 2004-05 it was 100,000 and in 2005-06 it was 111,000. Each year, we as a country produce, almost twice the number of engineers produced by the US and a little less than twice of all that Europe produces. A peek into the impetus given to education in our country indicates that the spending on education has grown five times in the last 50 years. The challenge is not so much from other parts of the globe as it is from China. China is today the largest producer of engineering graduates in the world. So, will India overtake China over the next few years? "In my view, it may not be possible though, we are not far behind".

During our time, there were only a handful of institutes but now the number of institutes set up for various disciplines year on year indicates an engineering education boom in India. Engineering colleges in the country have been growing at 20 per cent a year. Further the quality of engineering education is also getting a boost. The paradox is that, despite the increase in the number of colleges, the competition for acquiring fresh talent every year is so heated that it gives an impression that resources are really scarce. In reality, there is a plethora of career options for engineers of current years. The challenge is not the supply of talent but that of talent that meets the needs of the corporate world. In other words, the challenge is that of employability!! It's not about having a good curriculum or good faculty. What then is the employability enigma? We conducted a survey of all the stakeholders on the employability front to understand the mystery. The results indicate that if the students augment their skills in a few specific areas desired by the industry employability in the country can be significantly enhanced. While India currently boasts of one of the world's largest qualified pools of scientific and engineering manpower, the growing global demand for industry-oriented professionals is gradually widening demand-supply gap. Innovate: Innovation can help us to a large extent in handling the challenges of employability and engineering education. While innovation is 'doing' things differently, creativity is all about 'thinking' differently. Innovation is essentially the application of high creativity. Innovation is personally very exciting for me and the most important differentiator for winning. I would want to summarize it with a couple of key points. One, engineering educators and curriculum developers must anticipate dramatic changes in engineering practice and adapt their programs accordingly. Two, we need innovative ways to improve the training of engineers to prepare them for addressing the complex questions raised by emerging technologies. Mission10X is one of our quantum innovation projects. Quantum innovation starts with figuring out where you want to be. It is about our aspirations and Mission10X is one of our aspirational projects. Mission10X aims at promoting systemic changes to current teaching-learning paradigms in engineering education in collaboration with the academia. Source: Address by Premji, Chairman, Wipro at the launch of Mission10X, in Bangalore.