Friday 19 June 2020

Engineering colleges mull online courses, phone viva to get academics going

Engineering colleges across the country, including the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), National Institutes of Technology (NITs), are racing to make up for time they lost during the lockdown.

To stay on course with their academic calendars, several steps for graduating batches and fresh incoming batches are being taken.

Colleges are in talks with service providers or developing in-house learning management solutions for taking their academics online. Some have even done away with final exams and are, instead, looking at options to grant marks or credits to students such as according merits from previous internals and semester or telephonic viva.

For instance, computer science vs computer engineering is in discussion with two major companies for providing both software and hardware solutions and integrating the online teaching and examination. The virtual laboratories and studios of the institute are being utilised for imparting online classes. Its CSE faculty has developed a tool to conduct online exams.

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