Indian Computer Science (CS) & Information Technology (IT) Academic Reform (Past) Activism Blog Book
Subtitle: eklavyasai.blogspot.com (main work years: 2011 to 2014)
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Ravi S. Iyer (Self-publisher)
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh, India
ISBN-13: 9789354063589
Table of contents: title: Conditional Permission to freely reuse MY CONTENT of this book; title: Preface; title: Truth Telling - A Tough Job; title: =================; title: Improving the Teaching and Practice of Software Development in Indian CS & IT Academia; title: =================; title: My preprint "Paper", Improve the Practice of Software Development in India by …: Ranked highly by Internet search engines and Google Scholar; Paper text; title: Ten Computer Science (CS) & Information Technology (IT) higher education policy changes to improve practice of software development in India; title: Concrete Suggestions for Measuring Teaching Quality in Practice-Oriented Computer Science/Information Technology streams; title: Discussion on Concrete Suggestions for Measuring Teaching Quality; title: Wrote to Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, on improving practice of software development in Indian CS & IT academia; title: Poor software development skills Indian CS graduates - Google Search Results; title: Comments (of former CS academic from UK) on Software Development Career Track Paper; title: CS & IT Academia: Serious Systemic Problems?; title: CS & IT Academia: How To Relieve Suffering of Students, Parents and Employers; title: CS & IT Academia: Inform Students About Software Contribution Record of Faculty; title: CS & IT Academia: Profs. May Not Like Idea of Software Contribution Record; title: Publicly Funded Higher Education Institutions should put up Detailed Course contents on the Internet; title: My suggestions related to skill development in Indian higher education on mygov.in discussions on New Education Policy; title: How MHRD (& DIRECTOR IIT) disposed of my "Serious Systemic Problems in Indian CS IT Academia" grievance dated Nov. 2011, DOING NOTHING REALLY; title: About me not being Ph.D. or qualified in Computer Science but yet teaching lab. courses and being tech. consultant in an Indian deemed university in the past; title: =======================; title: Views of Top Leaders (Country Presidents/Prime Minister/Ministers/US Senators) on Education; title: =======================; title: Education and IT related parts of President Mukherjee's address to Parliament; My comments; title: Education and IT related excerpts from PM Narendra Modi speech in Lok Sabha on June 11th 2014; title: Education Related Parts of US President Obama's State of the Union 2014 Speech; title: USA - Student Right to Know Before You Go Act; title: First Question in 2nd US Presidential debate: Student asks about employment after graduation!; title: =================; title: Research vs. Teaching; title: =================; title: Nature and Science (Top International Research Magazines) 2011 Articles on Lack of Importance Given to Teaching Nowadays; title: Suggestion of Separate Tracks for Teaching and Research by US Academics; title: India (and Other Emerging/Developing Countries) Should Not Obsess about Higher Education Rankings; title: Improving Indian Academic Research and Teaching: Have Separate Research-Intensive Universities and Teaching-Intensive Universities; title: Is Academic Research Grant Money Corrupting Academic Teaching Ideals?; title: CS & IT Academia: Is Teaching Excellence Important?; title: Is a PhD in CS/IT Necessarily a Good Teacher?; title: A Defense of The CS/IT PhD Teacher; title: Suggestion of Separate University Rankings for Research Excellence and Teaching Excellence; title: CS & IT Academia: Research vs. Teaching; title: Should M.Tech.(CS) Project be CS Research Oriented Or Software Engineering Project Oriented?; title: HRD Minister Javadekar says research not necessary for promotion for college teachers; university dept. faculty however need to do research; title: HRD minister Javadekar tells truth about UGC AICTE academia problems; removes mandatory research for college faculty (but not university faculty); assures UGC AICTE reform; title: Dr. Pushkar's articles on research req. for Indian college teachers producing fake research and reducing teaching quality; historical background of Indian academic research system; title: ==================; title: IT Finishing Schools; title: ==================; title: IT Finishing Schools; title: More on IT Finishing Schools; title: ================; title: Academic PhD Club & Bureaucratic POWER structure; title: ================; title: CS & IT Academia: The PhD Glass Ceiling; title: CS & IT Academia: A Bureaucratic POWER structure; title: 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; title: =======================; title: Indian Engineering Colleges: Graduate Employability Problems; title: =======================; title: Private study claims: Less than 9% of Indian engineering students have required programming and algorithm skills for IT product company jobs; title: GATE and UGC NET CS & IT exams can be employability measures if they include practical knowledge assessment; title: The Hindu's higher education student guidebook - thenxt.step 2013 - CS & IT picture; title: 2014 National (India) Employability report - Poor Employability of Andhra Pradesh Engineering Graduates; title: ===============; title: Miscellaneous; title: ===============; title: A Tough View of UK CS Academia; title: The Software Development Professor!; title: Is (Seoul Accord) Accreditation using Outcome Based Assessment methods the way forward to improve teaching standards in Indian CS & IT academia?; title: US CS PhD student's Comparative View of US and Indian Academia; title: Prof. Stroustrup: Software development is a potentially noble profession like medicine or classical engg. disciplines but long way to go; title: ============; title: Appendices; title: ============; title: Appendix A: My software field biodata, software industry work experience and lab. courses I taught; title: Appendix B: Holistically Elite CS/IT Education vs. Technically Elite CS/IT Education; title: Appendix C: Discussion and Debate on lack of Proper Warranty for Software, and need thereof; title: Appendix D: List of some other eklavyasai blog posts including on “How to Teach Programming?”