Achieving academic excellence and adapting to fast changing needs were the themes for the second day of the Faculty Development Program (FDP) organised by IIM Raipur under Technical Education Quality Improvement Program (TEQIP-II) on Tuesday.
The day’s event centred around elaborate sessions by Prof. Satyasiba Das, Prof Vinita Sahay, Prof Sanjeev Prashar, and Prof Atri Sengupta of IIM Raipur, a press release issued by the institute here stated.
In the session by Prof. Satyasiba Das ‘Adapting to Fast Changing Needs’, he discussed with the participants on the fast changing scenarios of education.
Factors such as Globalisation of Business and Social Interaction, skill gap and effectiveness of education, demographic and geographical factors, complexity of knowledge, emergence of e-learning and distance learning as few of the factors that is affecting current education system, he said.
Prof Das discussed that it is the time to shift the paradigm of education which is deeply rooted in industrial revolution and enlightenment culture to focus more on social reconstruction. He stressed that individual focused learning and change in curriculum is key aspect of this transformation.
Prof Das suggested several methods and urged participants to adapt to the fast changing needs of the education system in connection with achieving academic excellence.
Prof. Vinita Sahay, in her discussion stressed the need of student-centric learning and thereby imparting quality education. She encouraged all the participants to unitedly create a teaching-learning platform for the six-day programme by becoming disciplined students though all are well established teachers.
In another session ‘Mentoring Millennial’, Prof. Attri Sengupta stressed the importance of mentoring the students of engineering institutions. She said that an attempt was made to explore the avenues of mentoring students of technical and management institutes.