NIIT ‘Cloud Campus’ for students & professionals

Asia's largest IT training firm, NIIT Limited recently launched a brand new breakthrough initiative 'Cloud Campus' a cloud computing based skill development programme for students across the country. Through 'Cloud Campus’, NIIT aims to offer over 100 courses - including IT, banking, global finance, management, digital and social media marketing- across 300 locations by the end of 2013 and seeks to cover over 500,000 students by 2014.

Features of the campus:

• Anywhere Lab that provides 24x7 access for hands-on practice on their devices
• Buddynet Learning: a learning feature that enables collaboration with other students as well as expert faculty, thus making learning lot more fun
• Cloud Classroom: where students can interact and learn from not only the at-location faculty, but more importantly from expert faculty from wherever they are
• Cloud Courseware: the digital and dynamic courseware enables students to make notes, highlight and review at their convenience
• Lesson on Demand: ensuring that students don’t have to miss a lesson, even if they miss a class
• Online Assessments: enabling students take practice tests besides taking industry-level assessments

Cloud Campus would offer programs for people of different backgrounds and profile:

• Students from Engineering & Non-Engineering streams: It will offer courses in IT, Banking, Global Finance and Management. These courses enhance team work & ability to do projects in a distributed environment through Collaborative Learning
• Graduates: Graduates can acquire a range of beneficial programs from Employability Enhancement Skills & Customized Training in domains across IT, Banking, Global Finance, Management, to access to multiple experts and real time guidance through ‘Lesson on Demand’ to be Job Ready. Besides this, Cloud Campus would also offer advanced programs on Digital & Social Media Marketing for graduates.
• Working professional: For this lot, Cloud Campus would offer specialized new technology & advanced skills program through Cloud Classrooms tailored to working professionals’ needs along with Continuous Online Assessment to enable effective learning.

The initiative is expected to reach to the remotest corners of the country to fix the dilemma of scalability and quality in education that India is currently going through.

For more information, visit www.niitcloudcampus.com