The Internal Quality Assurance Cell IQAC of BSSS organised a One day Online National Seminar on “Importance of Infrastructure and Learning Resources in the Revised accreditation. Framework of NAAC”. The event was organised under the aegis of Paramarsh Scheme, University Grants Commission.
The event was telecasted on Youtube live for th eparticipants. The overwhelming response to the event with approx. 700 plusparticipants is a proof that the institutions are striving hard to promotequality in education.
In the inaugural session, Fr John PJ, Principal, BSSS,welcomed the expert speakers. The Inaugural address was delivered by Usha Nair OSD-World Bank Project. Dr Nair elaborated the concept of PARAMARSH that it's like working hand in hand for sustaining quality in Higher Education. The first Expert Session was addressed by Maya Ingle,Professor, SCSIT-DAVV. She spoke on “Importance of ICT in Teaching and LearningProcess”.
She began her lecture by stating that Teachers are at the core of any living society. Teachers use ICTfor making the teaching learning process easy and interesting. A competent teacherhas
several skills and techniques for providing successful teaching. ICT helpsthe teacher to update the new knowledge, skills to use the new digital toolsand resources.
By using and acquiring the knowledge of ICT, student teachers willbecome effective teachers. ICT is one of the major factors for producing therapid changes in our society. It can change the nature of education and rolesof students and teachers in the teaching learning process.The second Expert Session was on “Library as a LearningResource” which was taken up by Dr Sandeep Kumar Pathak, Deputy Librarian,IISER. He narrated the importance and varied usage of the library.
He also spoke at length about publication of research papers and its nuances.The third Technical Session was on “Overview of Revised AccreditationFramework of NAAC which was taken by Dr Shyam Singh Inda, Assistant Advisor,NAAC.
The session cleared many doubts related to NAAC accreditation and alsothe process of the same.
Each session had a question answer schedule as well which provided the participants to directly question the experts and get their doubts clarified.