Mission10X

Mission10X

Type	Not for profit Trust of Wipro Ltd
Industry	Engineering Education
Founded	2007 in India
Headquarters	, India
Services	Education
Website	mission10X.com

Mission10X is a not-for-profit trust initiated to enhance the employability skills of fresh engineering graduates in India, and was launched on 5 September 2007,^[1][2][3] celebrated as Teachers’ Day in India. Mission10X is a fast-growing academic community of learners and innovators.

History

With the aim to cater to the substantial number of engineering graduates in India who lack employability skills, Mission10X, as a part of the Wipro Quantum Innovation project,^[4] planned to create a significant change in the employability landscape.^[2][3][5][6]

Azim Premji, Chairman, Wipro Ltd., launched Mission10X on 5 September 2007, amongst a huge gathering of senior academicians^[1] from Engineering Institutions across India.

The Mission10X Faculty Empowerment Workshops started from 12 November 2007.^[7]

Team

The Mission10X team consists of an Advisory Board of Senior Academicians, a Core team that sets directions and ensures quality and processes, a Research Team that conceptualizes designs and delivers learning and Academic Relationship Managers who interact with academia.

Mission10X Framework

The Mission10X Learning Approach (MxLA),^[8] a technique used in these workshops was conceived to empower faculty members with innovative teaching techniques and tools that would enable their learners to:

• Imbibe higher levels of understanding of engineering courses
• Effectively apply the learnt concepts in practical situations
• Develop key behavioral skills required for employability

MxLA is sensitive to the contemporary intellectual development in the human and social sciences and derives its essence from multiple disciplines, methods and approaches. Amongst many Pedagogical and Androgogical approaches, the MxLA focuses on:

• Benjamin S. Bloom’s Taxonomy of educational objectives
• Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence Theory

Workshops

Mission10X conducts the following workshops and events.

• Mission10X 5 Day Workshop ^[9] – 5 full-day workshop is conducted for 32 faculty members chosen from 3 different institutions. This program is oriented towards building continuous professional development of faculty members from engineering education. It is primarily designed to shift the paradigm from teaching to learning and transform the learning cultures in the institutions of engineering education.
• Mission10X Advanced Workshop – 2 full-day workshop for the same group of 32 faculty members who have attended the 5 full day workshop. This workshop is oriented towards documenting the faculty classroom initiations and obtaining International Certifications too.
• Mission10X Learning Forums - half-day event to facilitate learning culture amongst faculty members where each member learns from each other.
• Mission10X Academic Leadership Workshop - 2 full-day workshop for Academic Heads in enhancing their leadership and managerial skills.

Mission10X International Certifications

During the course of learning faculty members gets an opportunity to acquire the three certificates that contribute towards their professional development:

• Mission10X Dale Carnegie Certificate in High Impact Teaching Skills
• Cambridge International Certificate for Teachers and Trainers
• Mission10X Certificate in Teaching and Learning

Affiliations and Collaborations

Collaborating University partners of Mission10X

• Dale Carnegie Training^[10]
• University of Cambridge^[10]
• IIT Bombay^[11][12][13]
• Anna University^[14]
• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada^[15]
• Visvesvaraya Technological University ^[16]
• Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya^[17]
• West Bengal University of Technology^[18][19]
• Indian Society for Technical Institution
• International Federation of Engineering Education^[20]
• Gautam Buddha Technical University
• Chandigarh University - http://www.cuchd.in/

• Administrative Staff College of India

Spread

Over the last 3 years, Mission10X has been able to reach out to over 10,000 faculty members from over 700 Engineering colleges across 20 states in India. Mission10X has been running week-long workshops at engineering colleges around the country for the past 3 years.^{[21] [22]}

Mission10X Phase II

September 6, 2010 Wipro Chairman Mr. A H Premji and the Union Minister for HRD, Sri Kapil Sibal unveiled the Mission10X Phase II.^[23][24] This phase will:

• Create 250 more Academic Leaders
• Facilitate deployment of 2500 Unified Learning Kits
• Empower 25000 more Engineering Faculty

References

http://www.weforum.org/reports/talent-mobility-good-practices-collaboration-core-driving-economic-growth - Talent Mobility Good Practices in the world

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