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Faculty during the session
Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Amity University Gurugram Organized Interactive Instructional Strategies in Higher Education on 16th January 2018 to 19th January 2018.
The main aim of the event is to train the trainer on “Interactive Instructional Strategies in Higher Education” and pointed on need of the hour for the teaching fraternity to “Stop Teaching and Make the students work”.
Prof.(Dr.) Martin Valcke, Professor & HoD, Ghent University, Belgium was the resource person who has worked extensively on innovation of Higher Education and the integrated use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and working on about 20 national and international projects.
Day one of the training program was emphasized on “Meta Plan and Interactive Questions” wherein the participants were involved in multiple activities such as poster presentations, role plays and individual presentations. Day one concluded with a roadmap on the systematic approach on the process student learning groups contributing and participating while the teacher being the facilitator and heading the student’s team with shared understanding and shared commitment.
Day two began with an interaction on a quick recap of the previous day session learning outcomes on the theme “Meta Plan and Interactive Questions”. The participants actively participated on the responses to the questions raised by the instructor. Moving forward, the instructor emphasized on the themes, “Competency Video, Video Assessment and Peer Assessment”.
The focus on this session was to create a videoclip that reflected the mastery of the script among the participant groups. The pedagogy involved role play with a demonstration of “LIVE” demonstration of participants in writing the script and active participation in the form of “Role Play” that had been recorded for further feedback on the same to the participants.
Day three The instructor demonstrated an exemplified teaching and learning both from a theoretical and empirical point of view, group work that is often used as a conceptual alternative for collaborative or cooperative learning. This indeed is potentially a successful Interactive Learning strategy. The key of this theme is to avoid the pitfalls. The instructed addressed the group of participants the two types of scripts that is distinguished as epistemic scripts and collaboration scripts, this was demonstrated as a focus on collaborative learning as a systemic part of a teaching and learning process.
Day four The instructor emphasized on the feedback that may be deployed to the students for an enriched teaching and learning experience. He also emphasized on the differentiation of “Feedback”, “Feed UP” and “Feed Forward”. The instructor deployed on the pedagogical tools that may be focused on the learning orientation through feedback to the students.
Outcome of the event:-
1. Participants had learned- “how to develop a blueprint as a guide for a program and course level curriculum.
2. The participants can surely guide students for placement related interview questions, research papers, summer training and writing projects on Online Educational Module.
3. To train the trainer on “Interactive Instructional Strategies in Higher Education” and pointed on need of the hour for the teaching fraternity to “Stop Teaching and Make the students work” which raise the standards of teaching staff in Indian Higher education.
Overall it was an extremely informative activity and it help the participants to understand the design principles, blueprint, interview questions etc..