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Dr. Kiran Kumar Ravulakollu, Dean, Woxsen University emphasizes on internationalization of education

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image 2022 08 12T12 24 33 537Z ArdorComm Media Group Dr. Kiran Kumar Ravulakollu, Dean, Woxsen University emphasizes on internationalization of education

“One of our university’s prime pillar is internationalization where we used to have a lot of faculty from many universities across the globe to deliver lectures to our students,” says Dr. Kiran Kumar Ravulakollu, Dean, Woxsen University in an interview with Chandan Anand, Founding Editor, ArdorComm Media Group at the ‘ArdorComm – Higher Education and Edtech Conclave & Awards 2022’ #HEETbengaluru Will you like to share some experience of today’s summit? Definitely, thank you very much for having me and it was a wonderful conclave you have here, usually the conclaves like this only have either educators or tech companies over there but you have a mixed match of both of them it is a very good platform for people like me, will be looking forward in the future to participate many of these kinds of things. How has your institute evolved during this last two and a half years of struggle for existence? Over the last two years has been concerned we are primarily the organization that has turned into university in 2020 May itself which is the pandemic time and though we are aspiring ourselves to a bigger goal but that particular point of pandemic hit did not stop us. We did take the particular challenge we put all the efforts towards the technology. We embrace the technology to a greater extent we provide the support of all possible educational standards and requirements to our students. One of our university’s prime pillar is internationalization where we used to have a lot of faculty from many universities across the globe to deliver lectures to our students and in the pandemic time embracing the technology has highly helped us and that’s where we are able to deliver the quality and requirement to our students and that’s I think in this particular platform also that legacy we are not stopping we are still continuing the same legacy and we see that this kind of platforms will enrich to bring us towards a greater extent where the technologies and educators can come together and do many such great things. Any message would you like to give to the institutions who are from a digital divide area maybe a two tier, three tier or a smaller town, how do they upgrade or enhance themselves in this digital era? That’s an interesting question, never fear that technology is costly, it is never costly it is how we perceive it. The way we should be able to see is technology is nowadays the modern tool for education. Education and knowledge as its own it has its value and procession at the same time technology is only the tool that will be able to empower it to a greater extent. Then modern educators are new upcoming universities, colleges and all the people especially the operations who are embracing the multi-disciplinary culture they should be able to see the technology as a mere tool then the objective the bigger opportunity to what we’re looking for will definitely be achieved. I would also like to share that today we are celebrating the first anniversary of ArdorComm Media, and this last one year has been very exciting very struggling and very experiencing, any message would you like to give for ArdorComm Media Group? It was a wonderful initiative that has been taken first of all and at the same time I was happy that through the pandemic you have able to successfully complete one year of all these particular hurdles and the way I see it the gathering the size the amount of energies that have been left over here is clearly visible that your vision has been much better and stronger. Though as a single university, Woxsen University from Hyderabad, we are smaller but we wish a good amount of success and a lot amount of participation in the future and when your next event is happened in Hyderabad I would like to be prima facie of this particular event.  

Dr. Latha K. C., Education Officer, UGC- SW Regional Office, Ministry of Education, GOI speaks about how UGC tackled with queries during pandemic

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image 2022 07 28T12 16 29 950Z ArdorComm Media Group Dr. Latha K. C., Education Officer, UGC- SW Regional Office, Ministry of Education, GOI speaks about how UGC tackled with queries during pandemic

“I appreciate all institutes who took up our suggestions or our ideas, they were able to cope it up and they made it in a student-friendly way,” says Dr. Latha K. C., Education Officer, UGC- SW Regional Office, Ministry of Education, GOI in an interview with Chandan Anand, Founding Editor, ArdorComm Media Group at the ‘ArdorComm – Higher Education and Edtech Conclave & Awards 2022’ #HEETbengaluru The way we have sailed across last two and a half years through the difficult times of Covid 19, how did your department respond to it, any message for the community at large? Yes, last two years was horrible and it was like unimaginable for all of us especially for student community they had to face a lot many challenges, they had to come over. We supported as a government agency, UGC was able to support and take immediate actions then and when it was required either by the student community or the faculty community or even at institution level. So, we faced a lot but I’m happy to say that we could come over all of it together in a much better way. The most important thing over last two years, what we learned or what we understood is yes we need technology for our support with the help of technology and with the help of contribution by most of the industries in the mode of technology wise and other things we were able to come out of this situation in a better way which did not alter or completely change the current education system or whatever it is with a slightly new adaptions we were able to come out and we proved that yes together with the help of combination of knowledge as well as technology we were able to achieve that in this pandemic period and we came out successfully. We are thankful for all communities, it might be institutions or it might be faculties or it might be industries or it might be new ideas or technologies which came in demand so with all these helps we came out of it in a much better and nice and safer way. How many universities in your region are there and what were the main queries to the UGC from them? As I handle regional offices like most of the university queries and university issues would be addressed by head office, New Delhi. We do handle colleges like there are around 750 plus colleges that comes under my office we do handle all queries related to these colleges, student faculty as well as we do handle certain schemes over here so all these related issues were handled and certain issues were passed on head office where their involvement was to be there. Then we would pass it on, so yes regularly during pandemic it was like always every day our inbox used to be filled up with queries and questions also most of the times. Especially from student sector sometimes there used to be a lot of panic it might be exam point of view or other things. Yes, we would handle it and we would give the best solution in student point of view and we also requested and also, I appreciate all institutes who took up our suggestions or our ideas or students request or student ideas they were able to cope it up and they made it in a student-friendly way. They were able to come out with a student-friendly way of learning and teaching more so this I am happy and I would like to thank all institutes for this who could help us out or who could help student community in this during this time. When you see the forums or the conclaves like this where we have the representation from government, from corporate and academia, how does it help to the society at large? I would like to congratulate the whole team over here for organizing or bringing out such platforms for exchange of ideas between academy as well as industries. This is a great platform and as NEP point of view yes, it is in scope or we need such kind of platforms more and more for the exchange of ideas between academic section as well as industry section and both together we can achieve much better. So, there could be lot of new ideas or new opportunities that would be brought out through these platforms and it would be helpful for both the sectors. ArdorComm Media which is a media start-up has just completed its one year of existence today so we are celebrating our first anniversary, any message would you like to give to ArdorComm Media? I would like to congratulate, listening to your background story in the inaugural session I was quite amazed, like staying at home with just 12 people you are able to reach out at this stage bringing together so many academicians as well as so many industries in under one platform. So, I congratulate for successful completion and I wish you and I want you to organize more and more of such platforms. You can make it in much specific also if you would like to if you get it to the deeper curriculum part, so you can have that. You can take up one particular topic and you can bring both industry as well as academicians together and have more so I wish to have more and more I wish to see you celebrating 100th with the same speed as well as success and I wish you a great success in future.

Dr. S.N. Sridhara, VC, Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, Chennai speaks about the initiatives taken by HITS to make students industry ready

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image 2022 07 28T12 12 19 692Z ArdorComm Media Group Dr. S.N. Sridhara, VC, Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, Chennai speaks about the initiatives taken by HITS to make students industry ready

“Instead of becoming employment seekers they are actually becoming employment givers,” says Dr. S.N. Sridhara, Vice Chancellor, Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, Chennai in an interview with Chandan Anand, Founding Editor, ArdorComm Media Group at the ‘ArdorComm – Higher Education and Edtech Conclave & Awards 2022’ #HEETbengaluru As we have witnessed how the industry has sailed off from a traditional mode of education towards the digital mode of education, your views and how did your institute perform in the last two and a half years? It’s an appt question as all of us know already the pandemic has taught a lot of lessons to all the institutions, a few institutions which were ready digitally they could take off and I’m happy to say that Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science is one of such premier institute. The day actually the lockdown was announced the next day we were online because already we had the online platform ready and we were delivering it offline and online together so this is a big lesson for all of us and then we took it further. Any change in the mode of teaching and in the curricula, which could make a student industry ready, how did HITS prepare itself? Yeah there were many challenges during pandemic also the first one has basically many of the faculty members, though they were industry ready in terms of their experience etc they were not able to make use of the online platforms immediately and moreover the online platforms which are available during pandemic were so primitive in the beginning that today I could see because of you know entry of ed-tech companies they have improvised the whole scenario and they have made it easy to use by faculty as well as to the students also and earlier there were no proctoring systems available now the proctoring systems are also available for the exams this is another boon and I should be thankful to the friends from ed-tech company who took all our problems and then interacted very quickly and then giving the solutions. And of course, coming to the way actually we changed our scenario in terms of teaching learning process. Earlier it was only blackboard everybody thought that the physical interaction is only the best way to teach but later faculty started learning a new method of using LMS basically learning management system and also using animations, using flipped classrooms etc and so on. So, the technology enabled learning and teaching experiences have grown multi folded and I think almost all the faculty across the globe have learned this particular technique thanks to pandemic again. What is your focus or stress on entrepreneurship how can we prepare a student for an entrepreneurship mode? Fantastic it’s a very good question nowadays actually everybody is looking at what is your placement and to my surprise actually from past two years and especially after pandemic we are finding that many of the students are actually thinking that they can become entrepreneurs. Instead of becoming employment seekers they are actually becoming employment givers. In my own institution we have a technology business incubator called Hindustan Technology Business Incubator and we have incubated more than 100 companies already through ourselves and of course this has already come into the curriculum. There is one more unique thing what we have done under NEP is that we have introduced the innovation and design course in the very first year so the very first year the students learn to innovate and also learn to operate and also to make some fabrication using niche equipment with that actually as they grow up and as they move on with the higher semesters they learn the basic knowledge as well as the skills also and they are made industry and nowadays I find that most of my Ed-tech company friends here are also very young and I can see that many of them are the young entrepreneurs and they are doing really well so there is a lot of hopes for it and I think joining hands with everyone who would like to make our Atma Nirbhar Bharat as per our honourable PM’s vision. Conclaves like this or the forum like this where we are bringing government, industry and academia how does it help overall to the society or the communities? Yeah, it’s so good actually in the morning session we had two government officials here one from NAAC and one from Government of Karnataka and I am so happy to see that the mindset of these government agencies has changed so much because of the drive being done by our honourable Prime Minister and also the perception happening here and this platform was very good to actually give them an awareness as such not only that their own initiatives but the awareness given through our educational partners like our ed tech companies. They are telling that these are the new technology we have so why don’t you take it and similarly for me as you know from the academia I’m also seeing a lot of opportunities in terms of tech companies which are giving a lot much of technology oriented assistance for us and definitely this is going to be a very good boon to take it further so it’s a win-win situation for all three, academia, the agencies as well as for the industries. Any plan of expansion where a teacher exchange or a student exchange can happen nationally or internationally? Yeah, we have been doing it actually from past 10 years itself we have actually MOU with nearly about 100 universities across the globe and our faculty and students exchange is being happening already but now after they covid I think it is going to be multi-folded increase. There are three reasons for it the first reason students want to go to abroad but basically the expenses are so high so it is not possible to spend whole lot money for the …

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ArdorComm- Higher Education and EdTech Conclave & Awards 2022 held on 15th July 2022 at Bengaluru; #HEETsouth #HEETbengaluru

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ArdorComm Media Group (A Media Start-up) hosted the ‘HIGHER EDUCATION and EDTECH CONCLAVE & AWARDS 2022’ as the 1st & Biggest ‘Physical Event’ in Bengaluru, Karnataka on 15th July 2022 (Friday). It also celebrated the 1st anniversary of ArdorComm Media for completing its glorious one-year journey. The Summit’s theme focused on “Re-imagining Higher Education in 21st Century Workplace: Expanding boundaries of Education, Skill and Employability.” This Knowledge forum invited Higher Education Leaders, Innovators and Edtech Experts to share their experiences, ideas and accomplishments which have helped the growth of the education community during the tough times of COVID-19 pandemic. The conclave witnessed who’s who from government, universities, colleges, engineering institutes, B-schools and skill institutions, and experts from corporate, EdTech companies & education startups. Deliberating, showcasing & presenting best & next practices in higher, skill & technical education. Chandan Anand, Founder, CEO & Group Editor of ArdorComm Media Group, emphasized on the event theme saying, “As new sectors emerge and existing ones expand and collapse dramatically, the skills required to keep up are changing at a faster rate than ever before. Educators and higher education administrators must approach skill competency with a growth mindset that will assist students throughout their careers and in the global knowledge-based economy. There is an apparent need to educate the next generation about rising digital capabilities and how to create, build, and properly use technology. At the same time, students in the 21st century must learn how to approach challenges from several viewpoints, foster and use creativity, communicate effectively, and use critical thinking.” Knauf Ceiling Solutions participated as the Presenting Partner of ‘Ardorcomm- Higher Education and EdTech Conclave & Awards 2022’; Monet Live as the Powered Partner; MasterSoft as the ERP Partner; Teachmint as the LMS Partner; Sunstone as the    Industry Partner; TruScholar as the Credential Partner. The Associate Partners of the event were Anthology Inc, ExtraaEdge, Financepeer, JODO, LeadSquare, Pearson VUE, SAS, SmartQ and VdoCipher. The Guest of Honour of the summit was Prof. B. Thimme Gowda, Vice Chairman, Karnataka State Higher Education Council, Govt. of Karnataka and the Special Guests were Dr. M. S. Shyamasundar, Senior Adviser, National Assesment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), Under UGC, Govt. of India and Dr. Sandhya R. Anvekar, Program Head- Skilling, KITS, Dept. of Electronics, IT, BT, Science & Technology, Govt. of Karnataka. The eminent speakers, experts, academicians & educators from universities, engineering institutions, B-schools, EdTech & education startups who graced the event with their presence at ‘ArdorComm- Higher Education and EdTech Conclave, Bengaluru’ were: – Dr. Manish Kothari, Founder & Managing Director, ISBR Business School, Bangalore; Dr. Madhur Gupta, Dean – St Francis Business School, Director- St. Xavier’s College, Bangalore; Shraddha Haldankar, Marketing Lead, Knauf Ceiling Solutions; Vivek Iyer, Vice President – Asia Pacific, Anthology; Dr. R. Karpaga Kumarave, Former Vice-Chancellor, Madurai Kamaraj University and Central University of Tamil Nadu; Prof. D.N. Reddy, Chairman, Board of Governers, Vasavi Engineering College, Hyderabad; Dr.Indiresh K.M., Vice Chancellor, University of Horticultural Sciences, Bagalkot, Karnataka; Ron Crasto, Consultant – Monet Analytics; Anand Vats, Manager, Monet India Design Center; Gaurav Somani, President-Sales, Mastersoft; Abhishek Ballabh, Co-founder, ExtraaEdge; Dr. Neeraj Sharma, Director, Institute Partnership, Teachmint; Dr. Ajit Parulekar, Director, GOA Institute of Management; Dr N. Thilaka, Director, Symbiosis School of Media and Communication, Bengaluru; Dr. Vinay S., Director, Seshadripuram Institute of Management Studies; Dr. Madhavi Lokhande, Dean, Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research, Bengaluru; Amey Parulekar, Head of Business Development, Financepeer. Apart from the panel sessions there were industry speeches and presentations at the symposium. Knauf Ceiling Solutions gave an industry presentation on the topic, ‘Enhancing the Learning Environments’; Anthology gave on the topic, ‘Technology for Personalized Education’; Monet India Design Center gave industry speech on, ‘Real-time Engagement Detection & Analytics for Training and Education Transformation’; Mastersoft gave on ‘ICT Enablement in Higher Education’. ExtraaEdge gave a presentation on ‘Winning at Higher Education Admissions in 2022 – Key Focus Areas’ and Teachmint gave an industry speech on ‘Revolutionizing Digital Higher-Education Infrastructure through Teachmint’. ArdorComm Higher Education Awards, EdTech Awards & Edu Startup Awards 2022 aimed to acknowledge those individuals, educational institutions, and Ed-tech companies that have played a key role in transforming the teaching, learning and employability outcomes. The prestigious award recognized & honoured innovators, trendsetters, and educators in the higher education sector. Key Discussion Points of ‘ArdorComm – Higher Education and Edtech Conclave & Awards 2022’ #HEETsouth #HEETbengaluru :- How effective is emotional intelligence in the cognitive learning experience of students? What’s better for today’s Ideal University Education? Multi-disciplinary or e-learning adaptability? How can blended learning change the dynamics of the teacher-student relationship? How can exposure to New Age Technologies help in fostering Experiential Learning Pedagogy? Key Highlights of ‘ArdorComm – Higher Education and Edtech Conclave & Awards 2022’ #HEETsouth #HEETbengaluru:- Sessions: 5 Industry Speech: 6 Speakers: 40+ Government Dignitaries: 10+ Higher Education Institutes (Universities + Engineering Institutes + B-Schools): 150+ Edu Corporate: 10+ Edtech Startups: 10+ ‘Ardorcomm- Higher Education and EdTech Conclave & Awards 2022, Bengaluru’ was an important knowledge-sharing platform of the education community that cared deeply about imparting education and making teaching-learning process smoother and accessible to all. It highlighted a glimpse of the higher education fraternity comprising India’s top educators, innovators, and dignitaries who came together to share their best practices and views. Let’s vow to be the game-changers in the education community in 2022. Thank you for participating & witnessing the Ardorcomm- Higher Education and EdTech Conclave & Awards 2022. Visit: https://ardorcomm-media.com/heetbengaluru/ Visit: https://ardorcomm-media.com/heetbengaluru_gimpses/  

ArdorComm- Higher Education and EdTech Conclave & Awards #HEETsouth #HEETbengaluru

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We are in the midst of a significant social and economic transformation, fuelled by incredible developments in automation and artificial intelligence, as well as unprecedented data and computation access. These technologies have an impact on practically every sector of our economy, including healthcare, banking, transportation, energy, manufacturing, and many other occupations. These advancements, like earlier industrial revolutions, have the potential to deliver enormous advantages to society and, in the long term, contribute to massive prosperity. Innovations will also change the future of labour, increase skill bias from previous decades, and contribute to a widening gap between the best and the least educated in society. To make the learners adaptable and aligned to the industry needs, it is the need of the hour to re-imagine the higher education in the 21st century workplace by focusing on expanding the boundaries of education, skill and employability. ArdorComm Media Group, as one of India’s fastest-growing media companies, is here to explore the prospects of educational innovation, future trends, and the existing scenario in order to stimulate important discussions among significant education, technology, and government stakeholders. Chandan Anand, Founder, CEO & Group Editor of ArdorComm Media says, “While some professions will be mechanised and others will be drastically altered as a result of technological advancements, we equally realise that new markets, sectors, and employment will emerge, some of which we cannot possibly envision today. Individuals at all stages of their careers should view learning as a lifetime endeavour in today’s fast-paced industry. We need to know what changes should higher education and its stakeholders do to ensure that the workforce has the core competencies and abilities it needs today and in the future?” To address these issues and discuss the desideratum in the Higher education sector, ArdorComm Media, is coming up with the ‘HIGHER EDUCATION and EDTECH CONCLAVE & AWARDS 2022’ #HEETsouth #HEETbengaluru as a ‘PHYSICAL EVENT’ in Bengaluru on 15th July 2022. As new sectors emerge and existing ones expand and collapse dramatically, the skills required to keep up are changing at a faster rate than ever before. Educators and higher education administrators must approach skill competency with a growth mindset that will assist students throughout their careers and in the global knowledge-based economy. There is an apparent need to educate the next generation about rising digital capabilities and how to create, build, and properly use technology. At the same time, students in the 21st century must learn how to approach challenges from several viewpoints, foster and use creativity, communicate effectively, and use critical thinking. These non-automatable “human” abilities are vital in a future of work that is continually evolving, and their value will only increase as automation becomes more prevalent. About the event: The ‘ArdorComm – Higher Education and Edtech Conclave & Awards 2022’ #HEETsouth #HEETbengaluru will grace the floor on 15th July 2022 in Bengaluru, Karnataka. The Summit’s theme will focus on “Re-imagining Higher Education in 21st Century Workplace: Expanding boundaries of Education, Skill and Employability.” The 5 States of South India, Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala are known for their breathtaking and mesmerizing scenic beauty, vibrant and rich tradition & culture. Along with this, the Higher Education in the southern region is one of the largest & fastest growing education systems in India. Strong governance policy, academic & physical infrastructure, and financial resources have played an active role in improving the quality of teaching, learning & employability outcomes. Literacy rates and per-capita income are much better in southern states. This is the reason why the students and parents get attracted to seek education and opt for careers in the South. This Knowledge forum invites Higher Education Leaders, Innovators and Edtech Experts to share their experiences, ideas and accomplishments which have helped the growth of the education community during the tough times of COVID-19 pandemic. The prestigious ArdorComm Higher Education Awards, EdTech Awards & Edu Startup Awards 2022 aims to acknowledge those Individuals, Educational Institutions, EdTech & Startups who have been tirelessly and fiercely working for the betterment of the Education Community. Key Discussion Points of ‘ArdorComm – Higher Education and Edtech Conclave & Awards 2022’ #HEETsouth #HEETbengaluru :- How technology partnerships and planned financial planning can better the R&D and Digital Infrastructure of a campus? What’s better for today’s Ideal University Education? Multi-disciplinary or e-learning adaptability? How can blended learning change the dynamics of the teacher-student relationship? How can exposure to New Age Technologies help in fostering Experiential Learning Pedagogy? Key Highlights of ‘ArdorComm – Higher Education and Edtech Conclave & Awards 2022’ #HEETsouth #HEETbengaluru:- Panel Sessions: 5 Industry Speech: 7 Speakers: 40+ Government Dignitaries: 10+ Higher Education Institutes (Universities + Engineering Institutes + B-Schools): 150+ Edu Corporate: 10+ Edtech Startups: 10+ ‘ArdorComm – Higher Education and Edtech Conclave & Awards 2022’ #HEETsouth #HEETbengaluru awaits your response to collaborate with many more leading stakeholders from different higher education and tech sectors. Join the Education Conclave to be a part of a community that cares deeply about imparting education. Witness the change taking place when India’s top educators, innovators and dignitaries come together to share their best practices and views. Let’s vow to be the game-changers in the education community in 2022. Inviting you to participate & witness the ‘ArdorComm- Higher Education and Edtech Conclave & Awards 2022’ #HEETsouth #HEETbengaluru on 15th July 2022 in Bengaluru, Karnataka.