Inauguration of Online AICTE-ISTE National Refresher Programme organized by Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
26-Mar-2021
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering is organizing a week long All India Level AICTE-ISTE Online Refresher Programme and the Inauguration was held on 25th March’2021. The programme has received sponsor of Rs. 3,00,000/- jointly from AICTE and ISTE, Govt. of India.
Dr. Rajesha S, Principal welcomed the gathering and Dr. Rathishchandra R Gatti, Professor and the organizing Secretary of the event presented the schedule of the event. Dr. S Manjappa, Director (R&D & Consultancy) and Advisory Committee member of the event spoke about the importance of Collaborative and Cooperative Learning. The Chief Guest of the event - Dr. B E Rangaswamy, Registrar-Evaluation, VTU inaugurated the event and addressed the gathering.
In his inaugural address, he stressed that Collaborative learning and Cooperative learning is the key to implement NEP. He emphasized that students must not only learn the technical skills but also be team players, develop leadership and communication skills, and multidisciplinary skills that is required for new emerging technologies and products. Dr. Ravichandra K R, Head of Mechanical Engineering and Chairman of the organizing committee delivered the vote of thanks. Members of the organizing committee, Dr. Nalini E Rebello, Dean-Academics; Dr. Srinath, Professor and COO; Prof. Ajith BS, Prof. Pavitra Ajagol, Prof. Soumyashree and Mr. Vishal Bajpe were present during the session.
The AICTE-ISTE Refresher Programme will be conducted online in three phases:
Phase 1 - 25 March 2021 to 31 March 2021,
Phase II – 06 April 2021 to 12 April 2021 and
Phase III - 22 April 2021 to 28 April 2021.
Day Two (Friday, 26th March’2021):
The First session was engaged by Prof. Amandeep Kaur, Associate Professor, NITTTR, Chandigarh on “Active Learning: Concept and characteristics”. She highlighted the significance of Teaching Process, Principles of Effective Teaching, and Learning, Active Learning Techniques, importance of Cooperative and Collaborative learning, and barriers in Teaching learning process.
The Second session was engaged by Dr. Flosy Dsouza, Associate Professor, St Ann's PG Studies & Research in Education, Mangaluru on “Active learning Strategies”. She stressed on the Paradigm shift in teaching and learning process, Learning objectivities, activities and Assessment, Blooms Taxonomy and Revised Taxonomy, common methods/Strategies in learning process.
The Third session was engaged by Dr. Rathishchandra R. Gatti, Professor, Head of projects and funding, Sahyadri on “Collaborative tools for student-faculty research teams”. In his presentation he highlighted the student-faculty collaborative research culture, research standards, and usage of collaborative information search tools and collaborative information storage tools.
The Fourth session was engaged by Dr. Lewlyn LR. Rodrigues, Professor, MIT Manipal on “Modern Teaching Methods”. He spoke on the effect of modern tools like Flipped Classroom, Project-Based Learning, Cooperative Learning, Gamification, Problem-Based Learning, Design Thinking, Thinking-Based Learning, and Competency-Based Learning on the teaching learning process.
