With the goal of empowering the modern education in line with the National Education Policy and upgrading lifelong skills, the Institution prioritizes various self-learning initiatives within the overall education and continuing training.
This policy applies to everyone, students and faculty of this institution.
Self-learning shall take place via following methods.
Spoken Tutorial Courses: The Spoken Tutorial Project is an initiative of the National Mission on Education through ICT (NMEICT), Ministry of Education (formerly MHRD), Government of India, developed at IIT Bombay, to promote IT literacy through Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS). It provides audio-visual tutorials namely ‘Spoken Tutorial’ at https://spoken-tutorial.org/. The Spoken Tutorial project is now partnered with NASSCOM – http://futureskills.nasscom.in/, and feature as a Partner Tile on NASSCOM’s FutureSkills platform along with NPTEL, Khan Academy, edX, Pearson, etc.
Spoken Tutorial is a multi-award winning educational content portal where one can learn various Free and Open Source Software all by oneself. The courses are multi-lingual which ensure that anybody with a computer and a desire for learning, can learn from any place, at any time and in a language of their choice.
Faculty Coordinators at CEC register students for at least one course per semester that supplements the current curriculum, and provide the link for the learning materials. After completing the course, students shall take up the online test and if they score 40% and above are awarded with certificates that demonstrate their expertise in the particular software. These certificates give an edge to students during placement by increasing their employability potential.
SWAYAM NPTEL: NPTEL is a project of MHRD initiated by 7 IITs along with the IISc, Bangalore in 2003, to provide quality education to anyone interested in learning from the IITs. It offers self-study courses across engineering, humanities and science streams available at http://nptel.ac.in. NPTEL has been offering online certification for its courses, the highlight being the certification exam through which the student gets an opportunity to earn a certificate from the IITs. One can register to any number of NPTEL courses for free however, only a maximum of 4 examinations can be written per semester with a nominal fee of Rs.1000 per course. NPTEL, IIT Madras has set up SWAYAM-NPTEL Local chapter in colleges. https://nptel.ac.in/LocalChapter/
Canara Engineering College also has a NPTEL Local chapter through which students and faculty are encouraged to take up courses every semester. After enrolling for a course, the registrants shall watch the videos and submit the weekly assignments. At the end of the course, the registrants shall appear in person for the certification exam at designated centres on specified dates in order to earn certificate. A certificate will be issued by NPTEL provided the registrant secures a consolidated score of 40% or above of which 25% comes from the assignments and 75% from the final examination. The certifications are Elite (60 to 75%), Elite + Silver (76 to 89%) and Elite + Gold (>=90%).
Visvesaraya Technological University (VTU) also has provision to award B.E ‘Honours’ degree provided the student has maintained a CGPA of 8.5 throughout and earns 18 credits from NPTEL courses in the third and fourth year. NPTEL offers 4 weeks, 8 weeks and 12 weeks courses through which a student can earn 1, 2 and 3 credits respectively.
Online Learning – Other than NPTEL students can take up courses from various other MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) courses from the platforms such as Udemy, Coursera, Edx, SimpliLearn and NASSCOM. The students shall be encouraged to register for courses in Coursera with financial-aid available. They shall be educated in choosing appropriate courses to succeed in their career path and also get benefitted in their academics. Student Volunteer Group: Students are part of the Coding club where they challenge themselves in solving problems through coding. They shall be encouraged to participate in project expos and competitions like Ideathons and Hackathons to trigger the passion for innovating something new. They shall also be encouraged in the creation and updation of the college website and managing of various social media handles like Instagram, LinkedIn, etc.
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