Conference will include expert speakers from India as well as from the international education community. Expert speakers from India and abroad will converge on one platform to discuss, converse and share ideas on subjects relevant in the present education scenario.
EDGE 2011
Session Themes:
Entrepreneurial Initiatives in the Higher Education Landscape – Potential Opportunities and Case-Studies
Initiatives by the Government – Stimulating the Education Sector
Research Collaborations – The fulcrum for building international partnerships
Developing relations with US Universities: Keys to Success
Panel Discussion - Partnering with Foreign Institutions
Funding Education in the Emerging Market
Pushing the frontiers of new assessments
ICT the catalyst for next - generation learning environments in education
Special Sessions
Round Table - How can Education Policy Framework encourage, enrich and enhance the Indian Education Sector?
Vision Talk
Highlight Lecture
Session Focus
Entrepreneurial Initiatives in the Higher Education Landscape – Potential Opportunities and Case-Studies
Education sector has turned into a hotbed for entrepreneurial spirit. The positive aspects like; government’s initiatives, heightened use of technology in making education accessible and imaginative learning tools, keen interest of investment community, the need for accurate assessments and admission procedures and the high interest of global education sector in India has created innumerable opportunities for edupreneurship. This had led to many new successful ventures in the recent past.
The session will bring to the forefront myriad opportunities which can be explored with some interesting case studies.
Initiatives by the Government – Stimulating the Education Sector
Government of India has initiated various ambitious programmes like inter-connecting all institutions engaged in research, higher education and scientific development in the country (NKN), improving quality of technical education and enhances existing capabilities (TeQIP), bridging growing-demand and supply skill-gap (NSDC).
This session will bring together experts representing different government agencies who will be sharing the latest developments in these ambitious programmes and ways of engaging education institutions in these initiatives.
Research Collaborations – The fulcrum for building international partnerships
Research collaborations have strengthened and furthered the cross-border institutional partnerships. It provides an avenue for the researchers to participate in cutting-edge research. This session will be populated by expert speakers from international organizations which specialize in facilitating international research collaborations highlighting the opportunities which can be leveraged by the Indian education sector for research collaborations.
Developing relations with US Universities: Keys to Success
This session will provide an introduction to U.S. higher education, highlighting the features that make it different from many other national systems. It will also cover tips on how to best communicate and interface with U.S. institutions, understanding how they develop their plans strategically and therefore how to approach them. Finally, the role that joint and dual degrees can play in building collaborative relationships will be elucidated.
Panel Discussion - Partnering with Foreign Institutions
As Indian higher education opens up to the world, institutions are looking for partners abroad for academic exchanges, joint degree programs and research. How does one find a partner? Which kinds of projects lend themselves best to international cooperation? What do foreign institutions want? This session will offer perspectives from American, British and Australian institutions.
Funding Education in the Emerging Market
Today’s knowledge century has rendered educational qualification as a must-have. Providing quality education by the institutions as well as obtaining education for the student is not cheap. In such a scenario, various financial avenues come into play in funding the institution and financing the student.
This session will bring together some of the experts from the investment firms and financial institutions who have helped fund institutions and financed students.
Pushing the frontiers of assessments: Emerging models
Innovative assessment methodologies are increasingly being used in the higher education sector. Assessments in India and across the world, is transitioning from pen-paper, multiple-choice mode to online / computer-based models; online exams are morphing into simulation-based assessments and many simulation-based assessments are taking the form of Serious Games!
This session will look at the entire gamut of assessment sector and its unending possibilities, advantages and implications for the education sector.
ICT the catalyst for next - generation learning environments in education
Indian education sector is gradually traversing towards next generation learning environments. There are end-less possibilities in this arena right from simulation based, game based, experiential, virtual classrooms with immersive learning environments.
This session will bring together experts from organisations will illustrate and demonstrate progressive technologies which can be leveraged to truly enhance the learning environment.
Special Sessions
Round Table - How can Education Policy Framework encourage, enrich and enhance the Indian Education Sector?
Indian Education sector is unique in so many ways; many a question arises related to the education policy framework:
Is the policy framework catering to the diversity of the Indian education sector?
Is the education policy framework conducive to investment in the sector?
Do the education policies encourage autonomy along with accountability?
Does the policy framework encourage PPP model in education initiatives?
Policy-makers, advisors to the government, experts on education policy, decision makers in the educational sector will converge in this Round Table discussion and address the issues related to the education framework of India, its implications and imperatives.
Vision Talk
An eminent personality will share his vision with the education fraternity focusing on higher education in the context of India shaping as a knowledge hub and the decisive direction that the sector has to take to reach this goal.
Highlight Lecture
An expert speaker of international repute will deliver a lecture on the theme of the Conference.
