ANANTAPUR: About 30 per cent of the teaching staff may lose jobs in technical institutions as AICTE increased the credits for online courses from 20 to 40 per cent. Securing marks through online course in a semester in the BTech / BE course will be made mandatory from 2021.
Fake agencies and online courses are mushrooming during the pandemic. AICTE is encouraging students to take up Massive Open Online courses offered by foreign universities and private agencies.
Remotely proctored exams have already been allowed for many institutes to comply with lockdowns and social distancing. Tools are available for remotely proctored exams that can stop the exam within seconds if anything fishy is noticed,” according to an AICTE release.
The regulator has virtualized the scrutiny of facilities using video conferencing tools. “Institutes are asked to give AICTE experts a virtual tour of their facilities, which is being recorded along with the GPS coordinates of the institute,”…