The Consortium for Technical Education (CTE) has extended its support to Annamalai University in Tamil Nadu by installing its Learning Management System (LMS). The management system is deployed within the Department of Information Technology. Along with the LMS deployment, CTE has integrated several video-based training courses on advanced technologies for faculties and students.
These video-based training courses on cybersecurity, cloud computing, virtualization, data science, threat intelligence, programming and web technologies are accessible to faculties and students. This management system allows some 35,000 students at the University to access advanced courses to empower themselves by taking ownership of their learning to be successful and impactful beyond the lecture halls. The Real-Time Course Upgrade feature enables the course directors to update additional information within course modules as well as create new courses.
As part of the collaboration, the Consortium for Technical Education will keep integrating additional courses on trending technologies, case studies, virtual labs, and industry recognized certification courses to the existing digital library at the Learning Centre in the university. These courses are designed with new technologies offering students excellent job potential. Furthermore, under the faculty development programme the LMS platform will also be used by the Department of Information Technology to upskill their faculty members.
Mr. Sairaman Srinivasan, Chief Strategy Officer, Consortium for Technical Education (CTE), said, “We are working towards developing a niche skilled workforce with advanced technical knowledge. Our learning centre enriched with video-based training courses, virtual labs, webinar/seminar session, demos/workshops on the latest products and technologies will equip the students of Annamalai University with 21st-century skill sets to raise their employability. In addition, our Learning Management System, is playing a major role in facilitating distribution of e-learning content to all faculties to sharpen their technical skill sets.”
Dr K. Selvakumar, Professor and Head of the Department of Information Technology, Annamalai University, said, “We are very happy to have the Learning Management Software installed at our learning centre. The department would like to extend this facility to all interested students in the University who would like to enrich their learning of new technologies. These courses will be jointly certified with CTE, and students will be provided with certification upon completion of the course, helping them to successfully get a job.”