Mathai, K. James <br/><br/>
Pedagogical impact of AICTE national initiative for technical teachers training (NITTT) online orientation program for mentors in India 

 - Indian Journal of Training and Development   
 - 51(1), Jan-Mar, 2021: p.14-28 
<br/><br/> A comprehensive Policy for Training of Technical Teachers (2019) was formulated under the ‘National Initiative for Technical Teacher’s Training (NITTT)’ framework by Dr. H.P. Kincha Committee. This training policy is initiated by All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) for improving the quality of technical education in India. Under this policy guideline, an Orientation Training Program (OTP-1)is supposed to be organized in contact mode for the senior faculty members as mentors of technical education system. The responsibility of conducting this program was given to four premier Institutes - National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training & Research (NITTTR) situated at Bhopal, Chandigarh, Chennai and Kolkata regions of the country. But the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has forced NITTTR to schedule this program in online mode for a duration of six days from 3rd to 10th June 2020. The main goal of OTP-1 is to develop a set of identified competencies for mentoring newly recruited inductee teachers joining the technical education system. These senior faculty members as mentors are supposed to mentor and assess the portfolio of work done by inductee teachers, who would report to them in phase-II against the Key Performance Criteria (KPC). The Phase-II of training has two stages : first “Industrial Training” and second “On-the-Job-Training”. In the schedule mentor program, 200 nos. of senior faculty members in the position of Associate Professor and above were identified. The Mentor OTP was offered successfully through an online digital platform, combining both GMeet and Learning Management System (LMS)- ‘MOODLE’. After the conduct of all six days of training sessions, the Mentors and trainees were asked to provide feedback- on their Digital competence, Pedagogical Aspects & Resource Persons, Technology with Pedagogy, MOOC-Contribution to learning, ITP Organized, Distance learning Challenges, Future of online Training/Learning during post Covid-19 crisis. In this paper the author critically analysed the above pedagogical aspects while implementing the ‘AICTE-NITTT online Mentor OTP- NITTTR Bhopal Model’. – Reproduced <br/> 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>All India council of technical education, Otp- Orientation training program, Key performance criteria, fipfaculty induction program.