Indian Computer Science (CS) & Information Technology (IT) Academic Reform Activism Consolidated Blog Document
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Computer Science (CS) & Information Technology (IT) Academic Reform Activism Consolidated Blog Document Ravi S. Iyer Software Consultant Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh, India Version: 1.0, 6th Sept. 2014 Contact: ravi@raviiyer.org ContentsIntroduction 9 Improve the Practice of Software Development in India by Having a Software Development Career Track in Indian CS & IT Academia 12 Ten Computer Science (CS) & Information Technology (IT) higher education policy changes to improve practice of software development in India 34 Wrote to Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, on improving practice of software development in Indian CS & IT academia 36 Suggestions to Improve CS & IT Education in India sent to Think India - A Public Policy Advocacy Think-Tank 37 Poor software development skills Indian CS graduates - Google Search Results 39 Comments on Software Development Career Track Paper 43 Concrete Suggestions for Measuring Teaching Quality in Practice-Oriented Computer Science/Information Technology streams 45 CS & IT Academia: Serious Systemic Problems? 51 CS & IT Academia: How To Relieve Suffering of Students, Parents and Employers 61 CS & IT Academia: Inform Students About Software Contribution Record of Faculty 64 Publicly Funded Higher Education Institutions should put up Detailed Course contents on the Internet 68 Holistically Elite CS/IT Education vs. Technically Elite CS/IT Education 70 The Software Development Professor! 73 Is (Seoul Accord) Accreditation using Outcome Based Assessment methods the way forward to improve teaching standards in Indian CS & IT academia? 77 NBA India: World Summit on Accreditation - Themes include Bridging Academia & Industry and Outcome Assessment Tools 83 Discussion on Concrete Suggestions for Measuring Teaching Quality ... 85 CS & IT Academia: Profs. May Not Like Idea of Software Contribution Record 89 Prof. Stroustrup: Software development is a potentially noble profession like medicine or classical engg. disciplines but long way to go 91 US CS PhD student's Comparative View of US and Indian Academia 92 A Tough View of US & UK CS Academia 99 Education and IT related parts of President Mukherjee's address to Parliament 102 Education and IT related excerpts from PM Narendra Modi speech in Lok Sabha on June 11th 2014 105 Education Related Parts of US President Obama's State of the Union 2014 Speech 110 USA - Student Right to Know Before You Go Act 113 Judge me by my work - Terrific response by new non-graduate HRD minister, Smriti Irani 115 Indian HRD Minister of State, Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Writes Newspaper Article on Indian Academic Controversy 118 First Question in 2nd US Presidential debate: Student asks about employment after graduation! 120 Transparency is the way to differentiate between good and bad deemed universities 123 For-profit Corinthian Colleges goes for orderly dissolution of company; One of the largest USA higher education closures; Lessons for India 126 Prof. Yashpal Committee: Renovation and Rejuvenation of Higher Education Report (2009) - Extracts related to private higher ed. providers and capitation fee 129 Private study (informal data): (Illegal) Donation/Capitation fees in India from KG to PG of Rs. 48,400 crores (US $ 8 Billion) per year 134 Is Brazil blazing a new path for low-cost and high-capacity higher education that countries like India can follow? 135 Tough talking articles about USA Higher Education's 1200+ percent tuition fees increase over past 30 years and Student Debt Trap 142 Two Hindu articles on Radically reforming higher education, Student loan procedures and concerns; Aspiring Minds employment linkage to edX MOOC courses 144 Recent articles in The Hindu arguing for and against privatisation of (professional) higher education (in India) 148 Flip-Flop Trauma for 44 Deemed Universities and Lakhs of students, parents, faculty and others associated with them 152 Private Deemed Universities - A model for excellence in Indian technical education? But what about its high costs to students, and so, social impact? 156 USA Higher Education Bubble? What about Indian Higher Education Bubble? 168 2013 Milken Institute Panel Discussion - The Future of Higher Education in America 179 Decline in USA Higher Education - PBS Documentary dated 2005; What about Indian Higher Education? 181 Think India Education Debate on Indian National English TV Channel 191 For-profit college in California, USA, faces lawsuit from Attorney General for Systematic Deception of Students 196 Some Serious Dangers of For-Profit Education Schools (Colleges) For Poor and Naive Students 198 How Online Education challenge is shaking up US academia 200 Napster, mp3 music industry disruption and MOOC 204 Tough Times for US Academia; Lessons for India? 206 Nature News, April 2011, Articles on PhD System Challenges 208 USA: The Student Loan Debt Disaster! Update: Income Based Repayment Plan Seems to be a Superb Solution 210 Affordable Subject-Wise Certification from Govt. Recognized Academia 214 NPTEL - IIT Madras - offers online course and certification in Programming, Data Structures & Algorithms 217 Georgia Tech, Udacity and AT&T offer Online MS degree in CS under $7000 220 CS & IT: Internet Based Learning 224 Wall Street Journal article on "Higher Education's Online Revolution" 228 NYT article on Massively Open Online Courses 231 Prof. Sebastain Thrun's experience of teaching 160,000 students AI for free! 233 A Princeton Sociology Professor's Online Teaching Experience 239 CS & IT Academia: Use Stanford Engineering Everywhere to Teach Programming 240 Online Programming Courses: Use MIT's OCW or IIT's NPTEL or Stanford's SEE 243 The Brains Behind Aakash, the Rs. 3000 (aka $35) Tablet 247 CS & IT Academia: The PhD Glass Ceiling 252 CS & IT Academia: A Bureaucratic POWER structure 255 The very strange case of 20th century era Department(s) of Mathematics and Computer Science in Indian academia in today's early 21st century world 258 Mainstream Indian newspaper article on Delhi University's Academic Council - "Everyone is terrified ..." 259 Delhi University Four Year Degree Program Mess! Do Indian university administration mechanisms promote dictatorial tendencies? 263 Dictatorial Powers of VC in Indian Central Universities 268 UGC scraps Research-linked appraisal for appointments! 269 Supreme Court rules that AICTE can only advise but not impose sanctions on universities/colleges 271 Indian Engineering Colleges: General Info. and Graduate Employability 273 Private study claims: Less than 9% of Indian engineering students have required programming and algorithm skills for IT product company jobs 274 GATE and UGC NET CS & IT exams can be employability measures if they include practical knowledge assessment 278 The Hindu's higher education student guidebook - thenxt.step 2013 - CS & IT picture 279 2014 National (India) Employability report - Poor Employability of Andhra Pradesh Engineering Graduates 284 Andhra Pradesh (India) Engineering Colleges - Half Empty! 286 An "educated guess" analysis of Large no. of Seats in Andhra Pradesh (India) Engg. Colleges Going Empty 288 Programming: Practical Solution Mindset vs. Scientific Mindset 292 Does a Teacher of Programming Need to Know Turing Machine? 300 Comments on Stroustrup's paper, "Software Development for Infrastructure" in IEEE Computer, Jan. 2012 302 Texas A&M University's Approach to Teaching Programming in (US) CS Academia 308 CS & IT Academia: How to Teach Programming? 310 CS & IT Academia: Some Comments on Teaching Programming 321 US CS & IT Academia: Usually TAs/RAs Teach Programming 327 CS & IT Academia: Should 'Customize' Instead of 'Build' be Taught? 329 Improving Indian Academic Research and Teaching: Have Separate Research-Intensive Universities and Teaching-Intensive Universities 333 Is Academic Research Grant Money Corrupting Academic Teaching Ideals? 337 CS & IT Academia: Is Teaching Excellence Important? 341 Is a PhD in CS/IT Necessarily a Good Teacher? 344 Suggestion of Separate University Rankings for Research Excellence and Teaching Excellence 349 CS & IT Academia: Research vs. Teaching 353 A Defense of The CS/IT PhD Teacher 358 Nature and Science 2011 Articles on Lack of Importance Given to Teaching Nowadays 362 Suggestion of Separate Tracks for Teaching and Research by US Academics 363 India (and Other Emerging/Developing Countries) Should Not Obsess about Higher Education Rankings 364 Should M.Tech.(CS) Project be CS Research Oriented Or Software Engineering Project Oriented? 367 Pursuing CS/IT Research Individually - Ph.D. Possibility? 382 CS & IT: Pure vs. Applied Reseach 386 Google's Hybrid Research + Development Model 389 Prof. David Parnas' views on Corruption of (Academic) Computer Science Researchers/Scientists by Publication Counts 392 Oct. 2013 Economist article on Problems with scientific research - How science goes wrong 395 Ground Rules for Sending Scientific Papers for Publication 398 Grad-Student. What does it really mean? 400 Open Access Journal Scams 402 Off-Campus PhD Degrees - Assam State Government to reduce pay of teachers with such degrees! 404 UGC seeks details on Ph.D. candidates in state universities 407 Great article about Fields Medal winner Manjul Bhargava and his blend of Maths, music & poetry (incl. Sanskrit poems) interests 409 Nature April 2014 article - Policy: Free Indian science by Dr. Mathai Joseph et al. 412 Jayant Narlikar, famous Indian astrophysicist, on Dr. Joseph's Nature article about Indian science policy problems 416 A Hard Look at the Indian Scientific Establishment 419 Whistle-blowing on the Internet - Solution for problem of Science Fraud? 421 Suspended jail sentence for scientific fraud for South Korean scientist 422 The Without Warranty Wild West Software Industry 428 A Debate on Warranty for Software 434 Miscellaneous 444 Illegal wealth case registered by CBI against former Vice-Chancellor of an Indian university 445 Mumbai college principal arrested over charge of demanding donation for admission to XIth standard Science class 447 Information Technology - Products vs. Services 449 Srinvasan Ramani - First Indian perhaps in Internet Hall of Fame; Not Agriculture vs. IT but both Agriculture and IT 451 Dr. Ramani's blogpost about students not formally complaining about illegal fees and Dr. Joseph's Hindu article (mainly) on R&D in Indian software service companies 454 Content of Programming Courses shared on Blog For Free Access To Anybody 457 Will HealthCare.gov wake up the world to the urgent need for professionalism and accountability in software development? 460 Book Summary: Digital Republic, India’s Rise to IT Power by Mathai Joseph 462 Ethics Policy for Sharing Content of Mail Exchanges on This Blog 474 Truth Telling - A Tough Job 476 Free Coaching for CSIR-UGC-NET Exam in AP University 477 Safe Path for Budding Academics in India 479 Steve Jobs: One of The Greatest Tech. Revolutionaries of Our Times 482 Steve Jobs: The iPhone Introduction (2007) 489 Steve Jobs: Some Criticism and Some Defense 498 Dennis Ritchie, a Truly Great Software Guy 503 IT Finishing Schools 506 More on IT Finishing Schools 509 Pageviews of this blog cross 10,000 over nearly 3 years; Top ten audience countries & posts 512 Eminent Indian computer scientist-cum-administrator Dr. S. Ramani writes: this Indian CS & IT academic reform activism blog is interesting 515 Contributors 516 About Me 517 God is One 519 Top-Level Categorization Links At A Glance Introduction The posts on this blog (document) have been categorized as follows (you may click on the category to jump to the list of posts in that category): Improving the Practice of Software Development in Indian CS & IT Academia Top Leaders (Country Presidents/Prime Minister/Ministers/US Senators) Views on Education Academic Reform, Higher Education Bubble, Student Loan Problem & Private Universities Online Higher Education; MOOCs Academic PhD Club & Bureaucratic POWER structure Indian Engineering Colleges: General Info. and Graduate Employability How to Teach Programming? Research vs. Teaching CS & IT Research Science Research Software Warranty Miscellaneous Steve Jobs Dennis Ritchie IT Finishing Schools About This Blog, Stats. and a Small God Post Some of the above categories are divided into my articles/viewpoints and discussion/informative posts. The month and year of the post are mentioned at the end of the post link. Directory: 2014 2014 -> English 99, Essay 4: Love Song Analysis Essay – What’s Love Got to Do With It? 2014 -> Compiled for Pope John XXIII high School by 2014 -> Guide to apa formatting 2014 -> What were the successes and failures of the presidency of Lyndon Johnson? 2014 -> Common Mistakes in the tok essay 2014 -> Important articles communal violence 2014 -> Only the educated are free 2014 -> Writing the Comparison and Contrast Essay What is the purpose of comparison and contrast? 2014 -> Hpac application Instructions 2014 -> Mrs. Anthony English 2 Honors Download 2.02 Mb. Share with your friends:
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