IBM - TASK Collaborate to Train 30,000 Students

CIOReviewIndia Team | Monday, 14 December 2020, 09:32 IST

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On Monday, IBM and Telangana State government announced collaboration for providing curated online courses for the state’s students to enhance their technical and professional skills. IBM will be working with Telangana Academy for Skill and Knowledge (TASK) for offering ‘Open P-Tech’, which is a free digital education platform focused on emerging technologies and professional development skills, for 30,000 students over a period of one year in engineering, degree, and polytechnic course.

Apart from providing access, IBM and its training partners will also train college teachers in using the platform, so that they can guide their students and help on-board them onto the platform and mentor students to learn these skills that will enhance their readiness for their future careers and the workplace.

With this partnership, IBM will be offering its entire catalogue of Open P-Tech courses in emerging technologies like cybersecurity, blockchain, artificial intelligence and machine learning, cloud, and internet of things. This training will also be delivering them with professional skills like design thinking, to learners between 18 to 22 years, for free.

Jayesh Ranjan, principal secretary, Department of ITE&C, Industries & Commerce, said, “Telangana’s focus is on developing a good ecosystem for emerging technologies. We have established a Blockchain District and have also declared 2020 as the Year of AI. Young minds who are trained in these technologies will find good job prospects in our State.”

 “We are glad to collaborate with IBM for the Open P-Tech programme. The technological strength of IBM gives us confidence that the 30,000 students enrolling for these courses will greatly benefit from them,” said TASK CEO Shrikant Sinha said.’

IBM’s Open P-Tech, which is a free digital education platform, focused on emerging technologies and professional development skills, was launched in India in March 2020. It is a platform for equipping learners, educators with foundational technology competencies, alongside workplace skills.

The partnership will grant Open P-Tech platform for offering courses to develop soft skills, interpersonal skills, problem solving, which are 11 key skills not included in a college curriculum, but are high in demand, and are highly valued in the job market. Open P-Tech is now available to students and teachers globally.

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