India first nation to launch design considering and innovation course in faculties

Express News Service

NEW DELHI: India would be the first nation to broaden design considering and innovation programs in faculties, with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) all set to roll out books from class seven onwards.

While the design considering and innovation course have already been launched for college students of Class 6 in many faculties this educational yr as a ability growth curriculum, the CBSE is now planning to launch books for lessons 7 to 12.

The elective course collectively developed by CBSE, the Innovation Cell of the Education Ministry and IIT-Bombay goals to offer college students with the instruments and publicity that assist them deal with issues utilizing the design considering course of.

Speaking with The New Indian Express, Biswajit Saha, director of CBSE (Skill Education and Training), stated that CBSE will launch the books quickly.

Dr Abhay Jere, the Chief Innovation Officer of the Innovation Cell, Education Ministry, stated, “This year, along with CBSE, we have already introduced a design thinking course from Class 6. India is the only country, as per the best of our knowledge, to have a design thinking elective module starting from Class 6 standard.”

“Introducing design thinking at 6th standard is very, very unique. We will be rolling out the books on the topic for Class 7 onwards very soon. They are at the final stages of clearance,” stated Jere, who has been instrumental in introducing innovation-related initiatives in greater schooling establishments.

He stated in India, many institutes are giving coaching in design considering. Corporates are inviting design-thinking specialists to assist them ideate. International instructional institutes like Harvard, MIT, and Stanford provide design considering programmes, Jere advised TNIE.

“Through this programme, we will be able to train a large number of youngsters, which will eventually help them move forward towards innovation and entrepreneurship,” added Jere, who conceptualised the Smart India Hackathon initiative, claimed because the world’s greatest open innovation mannequin, which teaches the tradition of product innovation and problem-solving amongst college students.

The present module, which has been conceptualised, is at par with worldwide requirements and has been designed and supported by IIT-Bombay. The ability module is an non-compulsory topic however won’t be a criterion for passing. 

Students might be awarded grades in response to their achievement from – ‘beginning’, ‘developing’, ‘promising’, ‘proficient’ to ‘excellent’.

Jere stated it was noticed that the innovation quotient and problem-solving capability of Indian college students have been under par. “The reason was due to the rote learning system of education. Our students are not trained to identify a problem and then ideate to solve that problem,” he stated.

According to Prof. Ravi Poovaiah, Emeritus Fellow, Industrial Design Centre (IDC) School of Design, Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay and who’s the chairman of the workforce that firmed up the design considering and innovation syllabus, the curriculum until Class 12 is prepared. “We are giving the draft the final touch. We will be submitting it to CBSE in a couple of weeks. Then they will take some time before they launch it.”

Elaborating on the module, he stated, “It is a very good initiative, which is not there anywhere in the world. The design thinking process in schools has not been done. Now, we will have children who come out of school with their mindsets changed.”

The intention is that in the long term, we would like our youngsters to be very artistic, Poovaiah advised TNIE.

He stated the background is the NEP 2020 mandate which says that we have to have sensory abilities inbuilt into our youngsters.

For college students from Classes 6 to eight, will probably be an publicity programme. And in the event that they get , they will take it up from Class 9 onwards.

“From Class 9th onwards, they have to spend 160 hours, which is the same amount they spend on any other subject,” he stated, including that in the intervening time, the ability course might be taught in CBSE faculties, however hopefully, quickly, different state boards can even begin instructing them.

The module will discover college students’ sensory talents, cognitive talents and social talents by means of a enjoyable train. It will create consciousness within the college students by means of commentary, discovery, evaluation, expertise, collaboration and reflection.

It additionally goals to nurture their curiosity and improve their explorative talents, foster creativity and innovation in college students, establish issues and discover options by making use of design considering processes and strategies to resolve numerous issues.

The course can even assist college students – who will be taught to collaborate, cooperate and work collectively to search out options to resolve – derive a culturally rooted understanding of design from info documented beneath the Indian Knowledge Systems, Poovaiah stated, including that in addition they educated lecturers in the best way to impart the course in numerous centres, together with Delhi, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Mumbai, Jaipur and Kolkata.

NEW DELHI: India would be the first nation to broaden design considering and innovation programs in faculties, with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) all set to roll out books from class seven onwards.

While the design considering and innovation course have already been launched for college students of Class 6 in many faculties this educational yr as a ability growth curriculum, the CBSE is now planning to launch books for lessons 7 to 12.

The elective course collectively developed by CBSE, the Innovation Cell of the Education Ministry and IIT-Bombay goals to offer college students with the instruments and publicity that assist them deal with issues utilizing the design considering course of.

Speaking with The New Indian Express, Biswajit Saha, director of CBSE (Skill Education and Training), stated that CBSE will launch the books quickly.

Dr Abhay Jere, the Chief Innovation Officer of the Innovation Cell, Education Ministry, stated, “This year, along with CBSE, we have already introduced a design thinking course from Class 6. India is the only country, as per the best of our knowledge, to have a design thinking elective module starting from Class 6 standard.”

“Introducing design thinking at 6th standard is very, very unique. We will be rolling out the books on the topic for Class 7 onwards very soon. They are at the final stages of clearance,” stated Jere, who has been instrumental in introducing innovation-related initiatives in greater schooling establishments.

He stated in India, many institutes are giving coaching in design considering. Corporates are inviting design-thinking specialists to assist them ideate. International instructional institutes like Harvard, MIT, and Stanford provide design considering programmes, Jere advised TNIE.

“Through this programme, we will be able to train a large number of youngsters, which will eventually help them move forward towards innovation and entrepreneurship,” added Jere, who conceptualised the Smart India Hackathon initiative, claimed because the world’s greatest open innovation mannequin, which teaches the tradition of product innovation and problem-solving amongst college students.

The present module, which has been conceptualised, is at par with worldwide requirements and has been designed and supported by IIT-Bombay. The ability module is an non-compulsory topic however won’t be a criterion for passing. 

Students might be awarded grades in response to their achievement from – ‘beginning’, ‘developing’, ‘promising’, ‘proficient’ to ‘excellent’.

Jere stated it was noticed that the innovation quotient and problem-solving capability of Indian college students have been under par. “The reason was due to the rote learning system of education. Our students are not trained to identify a problem and then ideate to solve that problem,” he stated.

According to Prof. Ravi Poovaiah, Emeritus Fellow, Industrial Design Centre (IDC) School of Design, Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay and who’s the chairman of the workforce that firmed up the design considering and innovation syllabus, the curriculum until Class 12 is prepared. “We are giving the draft the final touch. We will be submitting it to CBSE in a couple of weeks. Then they will take some time before they launch it.”

Elaborating on the module, he stated, “It is a very good initiative, which is not there anywhere in the world. The design thinking process in schools has not been done. Now, we will have children who come out of school with their mindsets changed.”

The intention is that in the long term, we would like our youngsters to be very artistic, Poovaiah advised TNIE.

He stated the background is the NEP 2020 mandate which says that we have to have sensory abilities inbuilt into our youngsters.

For college students from Classes 6 to eight, will probably be an publicity programme. And in the event that they get , they will take it up from Class 9 onwards.

“From Class 9th onwards, they have to spend 160 hours, which is the same amount they spend on any other subject,” he stated, including that in the intervening time, the ability course might be taught in CBSE faculties, however hopefully, quickly, different state boards can even begin instructing them.

The module will discover college students’ sensory talents, cognitive talents and social talents by means of a enjoyable train. It will create consciousness within the college students by means of commentary, discovery, evaluation, expertise, collaboration and reflection.

It additionally goals to nurture their curiosity and improve their explorative talents, foster creativity and innovation in college students, establish issues and discover options by making use of design considering processes and strategies to resolve numerous issues.

The course can even assist college students – who will be taught to collaborate, cooperate and work collectively to search out options to resolve – derive a culturally rooted understanding of design from info documented beneath the Indian Knowledge Systems, Poovaiah stated, including that in addition they educated lecturers in the best way to impart the course in numerous centres, together with Delhi, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Mumbai, Jaipur and Kolkata.