How IIT Guwahati is taking its lectures and courses online: A lowdown of lockdown facilities for e-learning

IIT Guwahati is committed towards taking educational learning online for students to gain knowledge as much as possible as all schools and colleges are temporarily shut down due to the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdown to check its spread. How E&ICT Academy at IIT Guwahati is conducting online courses in 15 states Since its inception in 2015 and inauguration in 2016, E&ICT Academy, IIT Guwahati has empowered more than 9000 participants consisting of, faculty members, students and industry personnel through 200+ courses conducted in 15 states nationwide in diverse areas such as Communication Engineering, VLSI, Data Science, IoT, Cloud Computing, Big Data Analytics, High Performance Computing, ICT in Teaching etc. During this lockdown due to Covid-19 pandemic, IIT Guwahati through E&ICT Academy aims to enable the scientific community by organising online courses, free 3-month long online summer internships, interactive sessions, and webinars. Facilities at IIT Guwahati for developing and delivering online courses As far as infrastructure is concerned, the e-classroom facilities existing at the Centre for Educational Technology is used for recording lectures on various subjects, student-teacher interactions, and interactions with remote students through video conferencing systems. Read: IIT Madras professor, Padma Shri awardee chosen for Nikkei Asia Prizes 2020 for clean water tech at Rs 2 per litre Read: IIT Delhi to give open license for its Rs 500 Covid-19 test, to hit markets in 3 weeks Read: HRD minister felicitates IIT Delhi scientists who developed low-cost Covid-19 testing kit Read: Affordable test methods to drones: Institutions take the innovation route to aid Covid-19 fight