Technical Education: Current Status and Future Directions (Volume 1)

Professor R.Natarajan, former director of AICTE, has been a regular contributor to the Indian Journal of Technical Education. These three volumes are an edited compilation of these papers that discuss several issues relating to technical education and provide invaluable insights from an expert who has drawn from his practical experiences. Technical Education: Current Trends and Future Directions – Vol. I explores the role of technical education and in particular—engineers in the process of national development and how science and technology can be used to leverage development. He also examines technical education in the context of rural development. Also discussed are issues of quality, accreditation and management in technical education. Volume II looks at issues in the measurement of educational achievement—both evaluation of a student and a teacher. The functions and role of engineering teachers, work ethics, development Industry-Institute Interaction and Societal Responsibility are also discussed. Volume III delves into educational technology and e-learning—the focus is on technology-enhanced technical education, programmed instruction and teaching machines, the role of multimedia and CD-ROM technologies, e-learning issues in the digital divide, some future directions for Indian engineering education and much more.