IIT Madras to offer free, online course on 'out of the box thinking', targets one million school and college students
India Today
IIT Madras is set to offer a free, online course on 'out of the box thinking' and targets one million school and college students for the same.
IIT Madras is set to offer a free, online course on ‘out of the box thinking’ through mathematics to encourage innovative thinking. The institute is targeting as many as one million school and college students, besides working professionals and researchers as well through this course, which is a first-of-its-kind initiative in the country.
These courses will be offered in online mode free of cost through IIT Madras Pravartak Technologies Foundation, sec 8 company of IIT Madras, which will also issue the grade certification for students who take the examinations at a nominal fee. The final examination will be a proctored one conducted at centres in select cities across India.
The course is being made available in online mode, free of cost, to everyone in India as well as in foreign countries.
The four graded independent levels of the courses will be easily accessible to students, professionals and researchers.
The first batch of the course is scheduled to commence on July 1, 2022. Registrations will close on June 24, 2022.
Those interested can register through the following link - https://www.pravartak.org.in/out-of-box-thinking.html
The course will present multiple approaches to problem-solving, debunking a myth that problem-solving is only for a select few.
