Faculty Development Program by IILM Gurugram

Faculty Development Program by IILM Gurugram Advanced and Innovative Approaches in Management Education at School of Management at JC Bose University of Science and Technology

Many management professors believe that good subject knowledge will guarantee professional success in teaching. However, knowledge of highly sophisticated professional skills, concepts and theories will be useless if the faculty do not know how to prepare and deliver the content in the classroom by using innovative curriculum development and teaching practices as well as adopting new ways of engaging students in Management Educators. The programme focused on holistic aspect of Management Education and equipped the faculty members and department with new and innovative methods of curriculum development and teaching approaches. Further the program ensured that the faculty was enriched with ways of better student engagement as well as Industry Engagement techniques and methods leading to maximization of output for students as the classroom. Apart from this Management Education is incomplete without industry engagement. To develop the competency of the management department of JC Bose University, IILM University has conducted a 5 days FDP in November 2019. For two days the participants were present at IILM Campus and for three days at JC Bose University campus. The sessions were highly interactive and senior faculty of IILM University Dr Vidhisha Vyas, Dr Saima Rizvi, Dr Sona Vikas, Dr Pooja Verma, Prof Ruchi Shah, Prof Sangeeta Sumbly and Dr Pinky Goswami conducted the sessions. Purpose of FDP Advanced and Innovative Approaches in Management Educationare required to fulfill the changing needs of students, industry and job market. This FDP was an intensive intellectual and action-based engagement for the management faculty to improve and make them better well as the school. Key Benefits • Vital curriculum development techniques • Design and customize teaching approaches • Communicate professional information, innovative ideas, and objectives to students and participants with clarity and force • Use new and innovative ways of engaging students in the classroom and outside • Use new teaching strategies to make their classes more lively, interactive, and interesting • Understand effective Industry Engagement approaches and techniques Session Planning Curriculum Development The curriculum of a B-school should be application oriented and industry relevant with an objective to make graduates job ready for various industry profiles. The courses should be benchmarked with the best B-schools globally. Curriculum should be robust in terms of readings, articles, links, case studies, videos and concept notes which students can refer to for a particular topic. Every module or course should also have a learning objective and it should also be mapped with the program level goals it aims to achieve. Program level goals will aim to build certain skill sets, knowledge and competencies in the graduates over the program duration. The focus of the curriculum and delivery is therefore to adopt a wide spectrum of activities in various sessions and also incorporate innovative assessment to evaluate the student learning at the end of the course/module. A detailed session Dr Saima Rizvi and Dr Vidhisha Vyas taking a session on Curriculum Development

Prof Ruchi Shah and Prof Sangeeta Sumbly along with the faculty and staff of JC Bose University

on the same followed by preparation of a sample module was conducted during the session. Student Engagement Educators have long struggled with discovering student engagement strategies that keep their students engaged in their lesson. Studies spanning back more than 50 years show that students can only keep their attention for about 15 minutes at time before their attention wavers. Students’ short attention spans have been on the top of the list for challenges that teachers face. Often this is due to digital distractions, or lack of sleep, or poor nutrition. Whatever the case may be, teachers are still struggling to keep their students’ attention long enough for them to learn something that they can take with them. Some of the methods of students’ engagement are quite popular and delivered good results such as the following: • Utilize 21st Century Technology • Design Hands-on Interactive Lessons • Transform Learning through Effective Questioning • Provoke conversations and challenge students • Encourage social media usage • Use automation to monitor progress and communicate with students. Industry Engagement To stay young a B School has to be Industry oriented. It’s not only the Industry interface which perhaps becomes the most critical differentiator for B-schools worldwide but how pervasive is its weave across the length and breadth of this interface that decides the zeal of staying ahead. This has a strong bearing on a school’s intellectual capital too.The critical indicators of the level of industry interface known to all of us are: • Number of joint research projects taken up with industry • Number of field cases authored by faculty • Number of live cases that students take up with industry • Number of open management development programmes (MDPs) conducted • Number of consulting projects taken up by faculty and the revenue generated from them The secret of staying committed to achieve the above engagement was deliberated upon. What more could be brought from the Industry was a vital take away of the session. Also in higher education institutes students need to be empowered to manage clubs and societies on their own, run the college magazine, FM or an NGO. They should be made part of decision making such as food and hostel committees. Evening lectures by eminent speakers and seminars, talk and panel discussions on contemporary issues are also very important. Teaching and Learning It is an accepted fact that teachers are usually not born but made. Good teachers nurture their knowledge and skills through constant and deliberate efforts. One of the prerequisite to be good teacher is to understand the teaching learning process in depth. This facilitates better

Prof Sangeeta Sumbly taking a session on Industry Engagement

appreciation of the teaching profession as well as the process of imparting education. This session focussed on how to make teaching and learning a journey to explore the subject and makes students lifelong learners. The session involved: • Innovative Methods of ilecturing • Flip Classroom and Blended Learning • Online Learning • Case Methodology The programme offered a tremendous learning opportunity to the participants and helped them gain the latest skills, strategies, and tools needed to conduct effective and result-oriented sessions.