College To Corporate Program - 3 Courses for First Semester

Programme Overview

IIT Bombay has designed six short courses for acquiring important professional skills under the ‘College to Corporate' (C2C) Program. The program will be useful to students from any discipline who aspire to join the corporate world. It will help them know about the corporate expectations and skills required to perform well in the job. These courses are targeted primarily towards the final/pre-final year students.

Methodology

Courses under this program will be conducted using a Blended MOOCs approach, which combines the advantages of online learning and face-to-face (F2F) interactions. Learners will carry out online activities on IITBombayX MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) platform, including online assessments. The face-to-face interaction with the faculty will be conducted fortnightly on weekends. These sessions will be broadcasted on YouTube Live. Participants are required to raise questions ahead of the session using a discussion forum. Some ad-hoc secondary questions can be asked using live chat.

IIT Bombay has established over 550+ remote centres (RCs), at colleges across the country. These RCs are equipped for live interactive sessions for an entire class using the open source A-VIEW software. Many of these RCs may participate in this program, making available the facility for the scheduled live interactive sessions. Additionally, a faculty coordinator may be available at each participating RC to help organize local group activities. Names of the participating RCs will be made available on the registration page.

Course content

• Effective use of IT for professional activities: Organising and searching digital Information, Email and Netiquette, Creating and maintaining webpages, Effective use of Online resources.
• Soft Skills: Time management, Verbal and non-verbal communication, Body language, Presentation skills, Leadership, Resume writing, Group discussion and Interview skills.
• Workplace Communication: Professional communication and conduct, Gender and diversity skills, Global and cultural awareness, Workplace ethics

Teaching Faculty

Prof. Virendra Sethi , Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay
Prof. D. Parthasarathy, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay
Dr. Leena Jha, Visiting Faculty, Shailesh J Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay
Prof. U.N. Gaitonde, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay
Prof. Varsha Apte, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay
Prof. Rajesh Zele, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay
Prof. Ambarish Kunwar, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Bombay
Prof. Ashish Pandey, Department of Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management (SJMSOM), IIT Bombay
Prof. P. Sunthar, Department Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay
Prof. (Retired) Deepak. B. Phatak, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay

Duration and Venue

The course content is designed for four weeks duration, with 8 hours per week of effort. Additionally, face-to-face interaction will need an engagement of about four hours on alternate Saturdays. Two of these courses are designed as foundation courses.
'Effective use of IT for professional activities' offered in the first semester, and `English for oral communication' course offered in the second semester. These will be conducted over a longer duration, covering the content at a reduced pace. Schedule for the face-to-face interaction will be intimated later.

Who Should Attend

Anyone who wishes to improve their skills for employment in the corporate world is welcome to attend.

Course Fee and Certification

The registration fee for each individual course of the program is Rs. 500/-. However, as an incentive to students/learners, the ESOS (Educational Services for Outreach at Scale) project at IIT Bombay has decided to charge only Rs. 850/- lump sum for all the 3 courses (instead of Rs. 1500/-) during the first semester (September to November 2018), if they register for all 3 courses.
Students who successfully complete all the three courses during the first semester, the entire fee for the next three courses in the second semester (February to April 2019) may be completely waived off provided we get some CSR funding support being solicited by ESOS. Students/learners registering now, and completing the first 3 courses, may thus further save Rs. 850/- for the courses offered in the next semester.

Criteria for Certification

• Participants successfully completing a course will get an online honour code certificate for that course from IITBombayX.
• Participants successfully completing all six courses will additionally get an honour code certificate for the entire C2C program.

How to Apply

Enrollment will be strictly online, and no other mode of application will be entertained. The online registration for the 3 courses in the first semester of C2C program will start on 24 August 2018. It will end on 14 September 2018.

Registration process for the Program:

• Sign up using your valid email id
• After verification, your account will be created
• Login on the website with the verified account
• Go to Announcements, select the program and register
• After successful registration, you will receive an automated email. Your name will be listed in the “List of Participants page”

Accommodation

Note

Live recording of the course and other created content will be released under Open Source, through a portal. All participants are required to agree a 'No Objection Certificate' for such release of content contributed by them during and after the program. All contributors will be acknowledged.

Address For Communication

Dr. Kalpana Kannan
Project Coordinator, ESOS Project
Department of CSE, Kanwal Rekhi Building,
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,
Mumbai - 400 076.
Tel.: +91-22-2576 4989
Fax: +91-22-2572 0022
Email: eoutreach@it.iitb.ac.in
Website - www.it.iitb.ac.in/lakshya