IIT Bombay plans to strengthen infra, introduce flipped classroom to enhance learning

In enactment with the reflection made successful the IIT Bombay Institute Review 2018-2022, conducted betwixt October 2023 and January 2024, the institute has been expanding its space, IIT Bombay manager Prof Shireesh Kedare told reporters.

“The enlargement volition beryllium vertical owed to abstraction restraints and we purpose to support the trees and support ecology. We are readying to summation our built-up country from the existent 9 lakh sq metres to 16 lakh quadrate metres, which is an summation of implicit 75 per cent, to accommodate the expanding fig of students, module and programs. We expect to flooded each the bottlenecks that we are facing successful the adjacent 3-5 years,” helium said.

This includes enlargement of the students’ accommodation from the existent 12,000 rooms to 16,000 rooms successful 2-3 years, Prof Kedare stated.

“With accelerated enlargement and accrued diversity, determination person been infrastructural constraints. These expansions are successful enactment with the recommendations outlining a broad roadmap for IITB’s continued maturation and enactment successful academia, research, and societal impact,” helium added.

Besides, IIT Bombay has procured instruments and instrumentality worthy Rs 500 crore, including liquid helium, precocious show computing (HPC), atomic magnetic resonance (NMR), among others, to supply satellite people facilities successful bid to heighten application-related research.

“These instrumentality tin beryllium utilized not lone by module and students of the institute, but besides by different institutes and colleges astatine a nominal fee. This backing of the instruments were portion of a Rs 1,000 authorities grant. IIT Bombay has been classified arsenic an ‘Institute of Eminence’ (IoE) by the Ministry of Human Resource Development and nether this plan, institutes similar IIT Bombay with the IoE tag person been granted Rs 1,000 crore,” helium said.

Talking astir learning, Prof Kedare said determination is simply a request to correctly utilise the 40 lectures per semester and marque students larn alternatively than survey for exams.

“We are inactive discussing however to optimise learning and present flipped classrooms successful aboriginal to summation pupil engagement,” helium said.

A flipped schoolroom is simply a teaching method that reverses the accepted learning acquisition by moving lectures extracurricular of people and utilizing people clip for much interactive activities.

The institute is besides strengthening manufacture and planetary collaborations and alumni engagement to promote and animate students for innovation, Prof Kedare added.