After more than ten years, all courses at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Delhi will have a completely revised curriculum, according to the institute’s new Director, Rangan Banerjee.
Banerjee stated to PTI in an interview that due to the information and technological landscape changing quickly and the need for the curriculum to keep up, IIT-Delhi has established a group to evaluate the curriculum for all courses. IITs have changed over the years from being engineering schools to full-fledged universities, he claimed. “We are thoroughly reviewing our curriculum in order to improve the learning environment for students. Over a decade has passed since the last exercise. IITs have transformed over the past few years from being primarily undergraduate and engineering colleges to full-fledged universities providing a variety of degrees “added he.
“It was necessary to completely overhaul our curriculum since we want to give pupils opportunities and challenges to interact with the actual world. So maybe a lot of changes will be visible the next year. We are currently in-depth consultation with faculty, students, and alumni “Added him. The information and technological landscapes are evolving quickly, according to Banerjee, a former professor at IIT-Bombay, and the curriculum needs to keep up. For the curriculum to remain current, he said, both the classroom instruction and the practical modules needed to reflect this evolution.
Over 54,000 students have graduated from IIT Delhi since it was founded, with degrees in a range of fields like engineering, physical sciences, management, and humanities and social sciences. “The committee for curriculum review is putting the finishing touches on a concept note, which each academic unit at the institute will use to evaluate its courses. After the curriculum revision, we anticipate having much more flexibility in our course offerings. We have launched numerous new academic initiatives, including initiatives in cutting-edge fields like artificial intelligence, data science, cyber security, and electric mobility, the professor stated. “The difficulty we face today is that our pupils are from a generation with a shorter attention span. Classroom instruction cannot be the exclusive focus.
We have to make them work on real-life projects, so they can learn actual problem-solving,” he added.
