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Company type | Not for profit trust of Wipro Limited |
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Industry | Engineering |
Founded | 2007 |
Defunct | 2012 |
Headquarters | India |
Services | Education |
Mission10X was a nonprofit trust that was initiated by Wipro Technologies, to enhance the employability skills of fresh graduates in India, and was launched on 5 September 2007,[1][2][3] celebrated as Teachers’ Day in India. Mission10X was once a fast-growing academic community of learners and innovators. Mission10X closed its activities in 2012.
Mission10X was an initiative started with an aim to increase employability skills in graduates of higher education. Mission10X, was initiated as a part of Wipro's Quantum Innovation project.[4] Mission10X initiative was launched to create a reasonable change in the employability landscape in higher education.[2][3][5][6]
Azim Premji, Chairman, Wipro Limited, launched Mission10X on 5 September 2007, in a gathering of senior academicians[1] from Higher Educational Institutions across India.
Mission10X Faculty Empowerment Workshops were started on 12 November 2007 [7] and they continued until 2012.
The Mission10X team consisted of an advisory board of senior academicians, a core team to set directions, a research team to conceptualize design and delivery of learnings by means of faculty workshops, and they were conducted with the support of academic relationship managers who interacted with academia.
The Mission10X Learning Approach (MxLA),[8] was a procedure used in the workshops to empower faculty members with innovative teaching techniques and tools that would enable their learners to:
MxLA was sensitive to the contemporary intellectual development in the human and social sciences and derived its essence from multiple disciplines, methods and approaches. Amongst many pedagogical and androgogical approaches, the MxLA focused on:
Mission10X conducted the following workshops and events:
During their course of learning, faculty members were able to acquire three certificates that contributed towards their professional development:
Collaborated partners of Mission10X:
During its initial three years (2007-2010), Mission10X was able to reach out to 10,000 faculty members from over 700 higher education institutions across 20 states in India.[21][22]
Mission10X Phase II was launched on September 6, 2010. Wipro Chairman Mr. A H Premji and the Union Minister for HRD, Sri Kapil Sibal unveiled the Phase II activities.[23][24] During Mission10X Phase II (2010-2012):