Talent development corporation and Asia's largest IT trainer, NIIT Limited, is targeting to train 12,000 students through its GNIIT cloud learning methodology in the 2011-12 financial year. NIIT, which launched the GNIIT cloud campus initiative early June 2011, is already delivering virtual cloud learning to 1,000 students across the country from its lab in Mumbai.
“GNIIT syllabus is based on a new educational paradigm called collaborative learning, which takes students beyond the traditional classroom-based student-teacher relationship. Students enrolling for this GNIIT programme will be provided with a technologically-robust netbook, a digital courseware and a fully-paid data card,” Surojit Biswas, vice-president, NIIT, told mediapersons after launching the initiative in the south here on Saturday.
The GNIIT cloud learning will support group learning through interactive features like 24x7 lab and e-library access, instant tech updates, interaction with faculty and peers live lectures and recorded (canned) sessions, he said, adding the company charged Rs 1.75 lakh for the three-year course, to be paid in 36 equated monthly installments.
“GNIIT also has a virtual placement cell, which offers features like career counselling, industry assignments and job profiling. Companies can also interact with students and absorb them,” Biswas said.
