Notice: Applications for LITE B01Y23 are closed, and LITE B02Y23 Applications are now open for July 2023 implementation.
Please note that B02Y23 institutions who complete the approval process by Jan 24, 2023, shall be upgraded to B01Y23 institutions.
All India Council for Technical Education.
Leadership in
Teaching Excellence(LITE)
AICTE's Leadership In Teaching Excellence (LITE) is a transformational program to pioneer and implement the goals of National Educational Policy 2020 such as learner-centered pedagogy, competency-based curriculums, continuous and personalized assessments thus enabling 100,000 faculty to skill 2.4 Crore students in emerging industry technologies, beginning with Advanced Web Development.
Applications Closed
956
Faculty Members Applied
294
Institutions Represented
106
Universities
27
States
103
LITE MoU Received
Watch the Video of how faculty members can transform their classrooms from NEP 1986 to NEP 2020 Learner-Centered Classrooms.
Letter to Vice Chancellors and Head of Institutions from
Hon: Vice Chairman, AICTE
“We intend to upgrade selected institutions as AICTE Brand Ambassadors of Change and highlight selected institutions, its leadership, faculty members and students as change agents who are implementing proven online teaching-learning methods that are aligned with NEP 2020”
Prof MP Poonia,
Vice Chairman,
All India Council for Technical Education.
“AICTE LITE creates an exciting opportunity for institutions and faculty members to bring an integrated research environment into their classrooms and provide inputs to the National Educational Technology Forum (NETF) that has been established under NEP 2020 to showcase the best practices in digital teaching-learning pedagogies.”
Program Highlights for
Faculty Members
NEP 2020 Model Curriculum
AICTE has published NEP 2020 Model Curriculum in Advanced Web Development for institutions and faculty members featuring learner-centred pedagogy, competency-based curriculums and continuous assessments.
Dynamic Updates by Industry
Teaching Assistants
Career Progression
NEP 2020 Certificate
Faculty members who complete training and whose Institute has completed the signing the MoU, thereby initiating the integration process shall be certified as AICTE LITE Brand Ambassador of ChangeA copy of the previous LITE certificate is below as a sample.
Learner Centered
Classroom Framework
AICTE LITE enables all stakeholders including universities, institutions, faculty, industry and researchers to work collaboratively to build NEP 2020 learner-centered classrooms.
Watch video to see the processes that are executed by each stakeholder to transform classrooms from NEP 1986 to NEP 2020.
Deep Research Integration
Faculty and Institutions who qualify shall become part of the Learning Engineering, Analytics & Research Network (LEARN); a key component of the LITE programme. The research team's goal is to constantly listen to institutions and faculty to suggest improvements to policymakers so that the learner-centred classroom framework is dynamically improving every day.
Dr. Leena Chandran Wadia
Member NEP 2019 Drafting Committee
Leena received her PhD in Physics from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and did her post-doctoral work in high-performance computing at ETH Zurich. She has both academia and industry experience having worked at CDAC, TIFR, IIT Bombay, and Netcore Cloud, in India. As of 2010, she has been working in the area of policy research and advocacy, mainly in the area of education. She was a member of the drafting committee of the draft National Education Policy 2019 prepared by the Dr Kasturirangan committee. At present, she serves as Professor and Head of the Vocational Education Cell at The University of Trans-disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology (TDU).
Dr. Viraj Kumar
Technical Secreteriat to National Curriculum Framework
Viraj completed his MS and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007. His primary research interests are in Computer Science Education and Educational Technology. He serves as an elected member of the ACM India Council, and as a member of the Technical Secretariat to the National Curriculum Framework Steering Committee. He previously served as a consultant to the Kasturirangan Committee to draft the National Education Policy (NEP 2020).
Aparna Sivakumar
Researcher
Aparna has a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from College of Engineering, Trivandrum. She has worked in technology, education policy and advocacy, and community organising. With over 21 years of experience, she has worked at Infosys, Observer Research Foundation and at leading roles in Netcore Cloud & Free A Billion.
Leadership Testimonial
Prof Anil D Sahasrabudhe,
Chairman,
National Educational Technology Forum (NETF)
Five Steps to be a LITE Institution
2
Faculty Member Facilitates LITE MOU signoff with Industry
Receive MoU Template for your institution to join AICTE LITE Programme. Once you have signed the MoU share it with us at wd@pupilfirst.org
3
To Assist in getting Institute and University Approval
Submit AICTE Model Curriculum along with your LITE Training letter to the University and get the required approvals.
4
Institution Publishes Academic Timetable
Complete Institute Approvals for integrating the course in the academic calendar.
5
Admit Learners to NEP 2020 Model curriculums from January 2023
You shall receive the Admission Guide that will be shared with students to start admissions for the NEP 2020 model curriculums.
Admissions Guide (To be published)
Approval Process Experience
Watch the experience of Chaitanya Bharati Institute of Technologyon how they secured approvals from Osmania University, enabling faculty to launch NEP 2020 Classrooms.
Join LITE VCs and
Heads of Institutions
8 Vice Chancellors and 12 Heads of Institutions are leading LITE NEP 2020 Classroom implementation.
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Become a Faculty Member with
Leadership In Teaching Excellence.
21 faculty members secured all approvals from Universities and Institutions to launch LITE NEP 2020 classrooms as pioneers.
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Hear the experience from LITE University, Institutions and Faculty
Watch a short video where 10 faculty members from LITE Institutions narrate their experience in implementing AICTE NEP 2020 Model Curriculum.
Highlights of ATAL FDP
in Advanced Web Development
Bridge your skill gap with Industry
Data Source: Microsoft Data Science utilizing LinkedIn data.
Dynamic Curriculum by Industry Experts
Vignesh Rajendran
Principal Engineer, Oracle
Vignesh is a seasoned UI Technology Evangelist with around 10 years of experience building and developing amazing User Experiences across various platforms and domains. He works with Oracle as a Principal Engineer solving UI engineering use cases for their Cloud and Cloud-native products. The stack he works on covers everything UI, although now he mainly codes on Javascript and Typescript. In leisure, he writes a lot and read a lot more.
Melson J Zacharias
CTO, Perleybrook Labs LLC
Melson is CTO at Perleybrook Labs LLC, where he primarily works with C++, Python, and Typescript. In his spare time, he would be reading a book or can be seen answering questions in StackOverflow.
Avishek Jana
Co-Founder Principal Engineer, GEOGO Techsolutions Pvt. Ltd
Avishek is an Engineer, a full-stack developer and an open-source contributor. Currently, he is working at GEOGO Techsolutions as Principal Engineer. He started his professional career in 2013 and worked on technologies like: Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, ReactJS, TypeScript etc. Apart from work, he loves to mentor and train fresh graduates to enhance their skills as per industry demands. Teaching is his way to contribute back to the society.
Hari Gopal
Chief Technology Officer, Pupilfirst
Hari is a full-stack software engineer with 12 years of experience and leads the development of Pupilfirst LMS, one of the largest open-source projects that uses the ReScript programming language.
Beginner to advanced courses
WD 101
Beginner - Getting Started with Javascript
WD 201
Intermediate - Server-side programming with Node.js
WD 301
Advanced - Front-end development with React & Typescript
WD 401
Industry - Getting ready for production deployment.
More advanced courses would be added to give a broader choice of specialisations.
Easy to Get Started
Coaches and teaching assistants shall support you in clearing any doubts you may have during the learning process.You can continue your training and classroom implementation for learners at your institution and complete the training in 18 months.
Improve your skills and confidence
Clear any classroom doubts through Teaching Assistants
Aravind Kannan Rathinasabapathi
BE - Sem VII, Computer Science and Engineering
Batch - GDC
Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College Of Engineering
Mohammed Rabil
BE - Sem V, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Batch - GDC
St. Joseph Engineering College
Mohd Saad
B.Sc - Sem V, Chemistry hons. (with Physics and Mathematics)
Batch - WD201 - TA Training
Aligarh Muslim University
Naman Gogia
B.Tech - Sem VII, Electrical Engineering
Batch - GDC
Delhi Technological University
Pranshu Aggarwal
B.Tech - Sem III, Computer science
Batch - GDC
Vellore Institute Of Technology Chennai
Shivank Kacker
BCA - Sem III,
Batch - GDC
Navrachana University
Shreedhar Chavan
B.E - Graduated, Information Technology
Batch - WD201 - TA Training
Pillai College Of Engineering, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra
Tanya Rampal
B.Tech - Sem VII, Electronics and Communications
Batch - WD201 - TA Training
IIT-Roorkee
Yaswanth Kumar Bethu
B.Tech - Graduated, Computer Science and Engineering
Batch - WD201 - TA Training
Prasad V. Potluri Siddhartha Institute Of Technology
Access Industry Hiring Network
Transform your classroom from NEP 1986 to NEP 2020 through LITE
NEP 2020 GOALS
1
Enabling a learner centered model of teaching-learning.
2
Delivering competency based curriculum for highly paid global tech skills.
3
Transformation of assessments from summative to formative (continuous)
4
Identifying gifted school students to gain direct admission to universities
Schedule
December 01, 2022
-LITE Batch#3 FDP Applications Open and Training Starts
December 12, 2022
-Last Date for Batch#3 FDP Applications (Closed)
December 13, 2022 onwards
-Interested faculty members to apply for FDP and coordinate integration approvals on a continuous basis
December 21, 2022
-AICTE to Announce Selected Institutions and Faculty Members
January 09, 2023
-Last Date for institute to share the signed MoU with Pupilfirst
February 16, 2023
-Last Date for Institutions to complete integration approvals for Batch#3
February 23, 2023
-Start Course Admissions for students at institutions
Ongoing
-Faculty training continues along with course deployment
Questions?
For queries regarding ATAL FDP
Email Dr Sunil Luthra, Director, ATAL Academy at director1atal@aicte-india.org with cc to wd@pupilfirst.org
For queries regarding LITE Advanced Web Development programme and Integration
Email Pupilfirst support team for any help that you would require at wd@pupilfirst.org
OR send a WhatsApp message to our LITE WhatsApp Helpline Number