About Us

The Centre for Educational Technology (CET) is a central facility of the institute to assist Teaching- Learning Process. The Centre is primarily concentrating on development of infrastructure for Technology Enhanced Learning. At present, the operational objective is to set- up studio/laboratories for video and web courses. The Centre has state of art digital broadcast lab with Apple platform and Sony equipments as well as Macromedia package, Adobe package for Web/Video course development.The centre has also Video Conferencing System.

CET has been involved in one of the National level major project along with other IITs and IISc under MHRD,Government of India namely National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NP- TEL). CET has successfully completed the Phase I of NPTEL( National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning) project Under this project a total of 16 web Courses and 05 Video Courses are developed. The video courses in the programme comprises of approximately 40 one-hour lectures for each course and the web supplements contain sufficient materials that a teacher can cover in approximately 40 lecture-hours. The contents are based on the model curriculum suggested by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and the syllabi of major affiliating Universities such as Anna University (Tamil Nadu), Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (Andhra Pradesh) and Visvesvaraya Technological University (Karnataka).

The Video courses are uploaded in the you tube (http://www.youtube.com/iit) and are also submitted for transmitting through GYANDARSHAN-III called Eklavya channel. The web courses and video courses are developed in order to provide students extra learning material over the net.

From the year 2005 the Quality Improvement Programme(QIP) is being coordinated by the Centre for Educational Technology .

Quality Improvement Programme (QIP) of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Education, Government of India, under the sponsorship of All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi has been in operation at the IIT Guwahati since 2003-2004. Quality Improvement Programme is being implemented with the objective of upgrading the expertise, qualification and capabilities of the faculty members of degree level technical institutions. The major activities under the QIP include:

» Masters and Doctoral Programme
* Short Term Programme
* Curriculum Development

CET has started working on some new projects like NPTEL Phase II & Phase III, Virtual Lab, National Mission for Education through ICT