ISTE Coordinators Workshop on Cyber Security

Introduction

Over 5 years ago, we started conducting ISTE workshops for empowering teachers of engineering colleges. We first scaled up to engage 1,000 teachers at a time, in subject specific training workshops of two week duration. In 2013 we scaled this program further, to train up to 10,000 teachers at a time (T10KT), using 337 established remote centers across India. IIT Kharagpur is our partner Institution. Together, we have a mandate through a funded project from the National Mission on Education using ICT (NME-ICT) of MHRD, to train 1,50,000 teachers in 15 such workshops.

Since December 2009, we have conducted several two-week ISTE workshops on various engineering subjects. We have reached out to more than 65,000 teachers and helped them to enhance their teaching skills in these subjects.

In order to run these workshops at selected remote centers, we invite expert faculty from various remote centers to a five-day Coordinators training workshop which is held in IIT Bombay, typically two months before the main workshop. These faculty members then act as Workshop Coordinators during the main training workshop to be conducted later for 10,000 teachers, during which, the Coordinators supervise the conduct of tutorials and Labs at their Centers. They liaise between the participants at their Remote Centers and IIT Bombay, from where the interactive lectures are transmitted live. All the lectures and tutorial sessions are recorded. The final edited audio-visual content, along with other course material, are to be released in Open Source. The content can be freely used later by all teachers, students and other learners

There is an urgent need in the country for capacity building in Cyber Security. By 2016 India will need over 4 lakh Information security professionals and hence the urgent need to train a large number of people across the country. MHRD has decided to use the platform of Teachers Training Programme by IIT Bombay, to train the trainers. The main workshop will provide training to teachers from Engineering Colleges and Polytechnics.

Course content

The topics to be covered in this workshop include:

• Cyber Security- an overview
• Basic Cryptography
• Security Protocols
• Network Security
• Access Control
• Web Security
• Malware Protection
• Intrusion Detection and Prevention
• Future Trends

Teaching Faculty

Prof. Bernard L. Menezes
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay
http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~bernard

Prof. G. Sivakumar
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay
http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~siva

Who Should Attend

The workshop is for the benefit of faculty colleagues, who are willing to be prospective Workshop coordinators for the larger main workshop to be held on 10th July to 20th July, 2014.

It is mandatory that the prospective coordinators should have taught a course related to Cyber Security at least for 1 or 2 times. He/she should be familiar with the topics listed in course content.It is preferable that they should have at least 3 years of teaching experience with some experience in conduct of ISTE, QIP workshops.

After attending this orientation workshop, the coordinators go back to their respective RCs, and start preparing the lab set-up and local logistics. In the main workshop conducted later, the interactive lectures are handled by IIT Bombay faculty but the local tutorials and labs are handled exclusively by the local coordinators. Since the coordinators have themselves done these earlier, the conduct of labs and tutorials is done, as it would have been done at IIT Bombay.

Duration and Venue

One week of face to face interaction from 17 May to 21 May, 2014, is to be conducted in IIT Bombay.
Venue: VMCC Auditorium, VMCC Bldg, IIT Bombay.

Criteria for Certification

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Course Fee

This workshop is funded by the National Mission on Education through ICT (MHRD, Government of India), there is no course fee for participation. Travel fare reimbursement will be made for up to A/C 2-tier or lowest return airfare, as per GOI entitlement. Please click here to know more about the travel allowance.

How to Apply

Those wishing to attend this course should register online at http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/nmeict/home.do

Some Remote Centers have been made inactive, because of issues relating to conduct of workshops. Faculty from these centers will be allowed to register for this workshop only after the issues are settled, with IIT Bombay.

Please find the link for the inactive centers here

Confirmation of registration will be sent by email. Enrollment will be strictly online. Due to limited seats, only one participant from each remote center can register. We will consider only the officially nominated participant as the Workshop Coordinator.

Last date for online registration is 13th May,2014

Accommodation

Shared Guest House accommodation with standard boarding will be provided free to the participants depending on availability.

Note

Please note that this workshop is conducted under the Train 10,000 Teachers program of IIT Bombay. Live recording of the course and other created contents would be released under Open Source, through a portal. The recorded CD/DVD of the course lectures would be available for distribution at cost, to any individual/institution. All participants are required to sign a No Objection certificate for such release of contents contributed by them during and after the workshop. All contributors will be acknowledged.

Address For Communication

Dr Mukta Atrey
Sr. Project Manager
Project T10kT under NMEICT
T10kT Lab
Kanwal Rekhi Bldg. Basement
Dept of Computer Science& Engineering
IIT Bombay
Mumbai 400 076
Phone: 022-2576-4989 (O)