The Educational Technology Innovation Center (ETIC) at NIIT University (NU) creates pedagogic innovations using industry-linked projects. The intense student engagements that these pedagogic initiatives opened up made it necessary to have a dedicated team which would facilitate the implementation of such projects. This student group forms the Center of Excellence in Educational Technology (CoEET). 

The team comprises students from different years selected as Teaching Assistants for key roles. All students are invited to apply for this prestigious group and through a transparent and rigorous selection system, fair representation is ensured to all streams of study at NU – Computer Science, Biotechnology, IMBA, etc. Each role carries a Certificate of Learning Mentorship and a Stipend for the duration of the tenure.

CoEET is responsible for the planning, coordination, and execution of more than 60 Educational Technology projects at NU each semester, through its various desks. 

Every project ensures the interfacing of multiple subjects so that students realize the interdisciplinary nature of real-life problems and therefore do not learn in silos. Project teams comprised of students from both BTech & Management take on industry-relevant roles, conduct research on real industry problems in various threshold domains and propose solutions. The Industry becomes a partner in their learning by providing them with real-industry problems and tools to solve them. Students are awarded marks in their respective subjects for their contribution to the project solution. 

This experiential learning-based multi-disciplinary approach is inspired by NU's core tenets– Industry-linked, Research-driven, Technology-based, and Seamless. The outcome is that students are prepared to handle market uncertainty in the following ways.

• Technology skills – they have skills that the Industry needs. 

• Workplace skills – most 21st Century skills are developed in project-based learning mode. 

• Unknown job readiness – they can navigate new learning and situations. 

• Changing technology trends – they can adapt to all new technologies for learning and growth. 

The Education Technology Innovation Center (ETIC) at NU envisions an interfacing of academic and professional communities.  These communities network and engage as partners and small-collaborative-workflow-groups.

Because using Educational Technology (ET) usually requires small groups to work independently, they need to be instructed in independent work, self-directed learning and learning strategically. Without this instruction the small collaborative workflow groups negate the learning and engagement integral to ET activities. 

Instructional content, modes of delivery and evaluation methods have changed a lot in the Information age.  But, when impacted by information processing technologies, it is the processes by which learners learn that have changed the most. 

The ETIC at NU facilitates this engagement of groups and their instruction through various educational technology projects executed under the Additive Curriculum Framework.

The ETIC portal is an online repository designed to help students as well as Faculty by providing access to information on projects executed by NUtons. It will host all the resources required to prepare for the projects under the Additive Curriculum approach and provide significant information on how a project should be executed and serve as a guideline for students. 

The portal also gives details of current CoEET team members, highlights announcements of various projects that get launched from time to time and provides separate sections for different projects that have been executed in the past. Details of such past projects that will be useful to students is organized year-wise for easier access. This includes project reports, mid-project reports, presentations, videos, etc.; that showcase how the projects were executed.

The excellence of some NUtons helped them to outshine others with their diligence and out-of-the-box thinking. Meet the achievers of the previous LPL who went the extra mile to bring unique ideas to the table and won the best in their role category.