Friday, 22 July 2016

100 point activity related GTU Circular for Information(For 3rd Sem/1 st Year Students)



GTU students to leverage one of its kinds Start-up MOOC under 100 point activity system: “Six ways to graduate: Introduction to Student Start-ups” The free Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) " Six ways to graduate: introduction to Student Start-ups" is being introduced by GTU as part of the GTU Student Start-up Policy to give students an overview of the start-up ecosystem in India along with advantage of doing start-ups in college. The “Six ways to graduate” course is being offered to students of GTU for the first time in India. GTU has empanelled multiple Technology Business Incubator (TBI) /Host Institutes (HI) for benefit of its students. This MOOC by Start-up Village (www.sv.co) is the first of many such courses that other TBI's/HI's will roll out for students so that in future, students have many MOOC's to choose from.

Key Course Highlights
  No prior start-up experience is required to take the course
  Internet connection and computer is only required to learn this program
  Students can study at their own speed of understanding
  Students can finish the course in approximately 16 weeks. Average of 4 hours of study per week is suggested.
  Students have to take this program individually.
 There will be 10 chapters in this program.
 Course will explain how students can graduate using SIX WAYS if they create a start-up in college apart from only conventional way of getting a degree from university
 At the end of each chapter, there will be a Multiple Choice Questionnaire for assessing the learning from each chapter
  Students can take multiple choice questions any number of times till they understand it in detail and are able to successfully attempt the questions.
 The objective of test is not to score but to ensure students have understood the chapters well.
 All students will get digital completion certificates after successful completion of this program students can earn 9 points under MOOC program in 100 point activity system introduced by GTU.
  Students who are then interested in creating start-ups can join any of the GTU empanelled Incubators.

All 3rd Semester Students are required to register in the link given below, for participating in this program by date 31.07.2016. http://gtu.ac.in/Mooc.aspx

Other students beyond 3rd Semester who do not avail the 100 point activity System can also take up this MOOC.

For any query kindly connect at: 100activitypoints@gtu.edu.in









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