IIT Ropar join hands with educational tech GUVI for excellence in e-learning services By CIOTechOutlook Team

IIT Ropar join hands with educational tech GUVI for excellence in e-learning services

CIOTechOutlook Team | Wednesday, 28 December 2022, 01:53 IST

Indian Institute of Technology Ropar is partnering with IIT Madras and IIM Ahmedabad-incubated edtech Startup GUVI for new initiatives to drive excellence in e-learning services. The GUVI will collaborate on research to upgrade its placement-oriented career program - 'ZEN Class' and Mentorship, by meeting the standards of excellence in e-learning services through IIT Ropar.

GUVI is an IIT Madras and IIM Ahmedabad incubated edtech startup that empowers career aspirants for IT and software jobs through self-paced learning tech courses, ZEN class career programs, and other vernacular edtech services. GUVI, which offers an online platform for students to learn in their mother tongues, offers specialised information technology courses to upskill students and make them 'job ready' online.

This collaboration will strengthen the ideal vision of Sridevi Arunprakash, Co-founder of GUVI, who endeavored in her professional journey to ensure quality in tech education and upskilling through GUVI. Such thoughtful efforts have led to the upskilling of over 18 lakh learners worldwide through self-paced online courses and more than 2,000 successful job placements in vivid career domains of 'ZEN Class' career programs.

Highlighting the unique aspects of this collaboration, Sudarshan Iyengar, Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Ropar, said, "Our laboratory has been specialising in online education-based technologies and we, were on the lookout for the implementation of edtech ideas on portals such as GUVI which has amassed more than 18 Lakh students. The aim is to ameliorate learning and teaching methods while qualitatively upscaling our relationship with GUVI."

GUVI offers technological skills that are in demand in the industry in regional languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, and Bengali besides English.

The Zen Class Career programs offer placement-oriented online boot camps in various in-demand domains, like Full-stack development, Data Science with Advanced Programming, Data Engineering, Business Analytics with Digital Marketing, Automation Testing, and UI/UX, among others. The program has a meticulous course curriculum and 360-degree career guidance from professional veterans.