Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore

Mangalore, Aug 20: Dr Anant Agarwal, the president of edX, a worldwide online learning initiative of MIT, Boston visited AIMIT, St Aloysius  College, Mangalore and spoke to the MBA students of AIMIT on August 19.
 
Dr Agarwal in his speech spoke about the free online courses available at the edX portal.

He said, “there are already more than 1.2 million students from all over the globe benefiting from these courses and around 1.5 lac students from India also have registered for free courses in various fields.”

He asked the students of AIMIT to register themselves for the online courses. He also demonstrated how these courses are conducted and the resources available at the portal.
 
Addressing Fr Denzil Lobo, director of AIMIT, he said that he would find out the possibility of offering some specialized programmes for the AIMIT students.

“AIMIT students could register, for the creativity and innovation course offered by Georgetown University, USA through edX and secure the internal certificate on completing the course successfully”, he added.
 
Dr Anant Agarwal was an alumnus at St Aloysius Highs School and College and had secured ranks in SSLC and PUC while studying at St Aloysius back in the 1970's.

He continued his engineering studies from IIT, Madras and obtained PhD from Stanford University, USA.

He has been the director of the information technology division of MIT, Massachusetts and has a lot of patents to his credit.

He has been the founder of and CTO of Tilera, a fabless semiconductor company focusing on scalable multicore embedded processor design.

Dr Agarwal concluded his visit by touring the AIMIT campus.