OdishaPlus Bureau
COVID-19 crisis gave rise to new age courses such as AI, Data Science and Digital HR. Online courses and assignments break through the conventional learning methods. Premier institutions like IIT Madras, IIT Roorkee and IIM Indore flag bearers of the change
To address the difficulties of the conventional courses, numerous institutes amid the COVID-19 pandemic in India are introducing courses in the different new-age advances. Some of the courses that have come in the limelight are AI, ML, Data Science, Digital HR among others.
IIM Indore: People Analytics and Digital HR
The Director of IIM, Indore, Himanshu Rai quoted, “The vulnerability drove by the pandemic has brought about an abrupt change in working environments during the recent couple of months. Using the information in a sorted out and effective way has become critical today. There is a rising need on contriving techniques to utilize such tremendous information.
IIM Indore has introduced a certification program on People Analytics and Digital HR to build up a productive strategy that aims at better management of data. The course targets giving a stage to embrace different business issues in the fields of employer commitment, employing, learning and improvement. Rai also mentions that with the move in workforce socioeconomics, the fate of HR is evolving definitely. Computerized HR would likewise have apparatuses to oversee the far-off workforce.
IIT Madras: online BSc Degree in Programming and Data Science
Its counterpart, IIT Madras, has introduced an online BSc Degree in Programming and Data Science for students, which will be offered in three levels- foundational, diploma and degree. Students will gain admittance to a month in Mathematics, English, Statistics and Computational Thinking. Only after the successful completion of the four-week training course and assignment submission, the shortlisted final candidates will be given admission to the course. With the announcement of the course, more than 5 lakh unique users have accessed the official website of IIT, Madras.
IIT Roorkee: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science
To furnish experts with future-prepared abilities, IIT Roorkee has additionally introduced new online projects and certification courses in Advanced Certification in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) and Certification in Data Science. Inderdeep Singh, Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, IIT Roorkee says, “The possibilities of experts prepared in these fields will be brilliant primarily after the COVID-19 pandemic comes to an end. The extreme disturbance of supply chains during the COVID-19 pandemic will request an adjustment in the working of organizations which will bring about a development of such experts.”
Working professionals in demand
Featuring on the rising interest for such courses among the workforce almost 30% of the students who applied for the course are working experts from different areas- banking, IT, manufacturing, automobile. Data Science is one of the quickest developing divisions and is anticipated to make 11.5 million employments by 2026. The World Economic Forum anticipates Data Analyst and Scientist to develop as the top rising job sectors by 2022.
