Highlights
Institutional
quality is being reflected in its academic, administrative and extensional
activities through various initiatives and good practices taken with internal
and external support from experts of leading higher educational institutions
and industries. The prime focus of IQAC therefore is ‘plan of action’ of
developing realistic and attainable quality benchmarks in advance and ‘its
prompt time bound execution’.
Following list
provides a glimpse of IQAC significant activities:
- Orientation Program for fresh
faculty members
- Orientation Program for faculty
members
- Orientation for I year students
regarding ‘Credits and Course Structure review’
- Orientation Program for students regarding
CBCS courses
- Governing Body Meetings
- Academic Council Meeting
- National Seminar/ Workshop/Training
programs
- Students Seminar/ Workshop/Training
programs
- Seminar/ Training for Administrative Staff
- Placement training
- Alumni and Parents meet
- Feedback mechanism
- Appreciation Awards
- Strengthening of
e-resources
- Internal Academic audit
- External Academic audit by Commissionerate
of Collegiate Education (CCE), Government of Andhra Pradesh
- Administrative Audit by Provincial
Superior FMM
- Submission of AQAR and Annual Report
- Updating website departmental blogs
- NIRF submission
- India Today Ranking data submission
2017-18
U.G.C Autonomous grant supported two day National Workshop
Prologue
Report of the Workshop
The Internal Quality Assurance cell of Maris Stella College organized a two day National Workshop on “MOOCs impact in Enhancing Quality in Higher Education” on 30th and 31st December, 2017. This workshop aimed at motivating higher educational institutions and academics to explore new opportunities, adopt new approaches for innovative practices in teaching and learning in the field of higher education, and evolve new online learning models through MOOCs for the holistic education to be incorporated into the existing system of higher education.Dr. Indira Koneru, e-Learning Department, IBS, ICFAI Group, IBS HO, Nagarjuna Hills, Hyderabad was the resource person.Eight external and thirteen internal faculty members were given intensive hands on experience in offering online courses through Moodle (Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment).
- e-Content Management and Delivery: uploading, embedding, storing and delivering learning materials;
- e-Learning: facilitating interaction and communication with teachers, peers and content;
- e -Assessment: assessing and grading students’ performance
2016-17
One day National Workshop
on
“Role of Human Values in Higher Education for
Personal and Professional Excellence”
01-02-2017
Report
Internal quality assurance Cell of Maris Stella College,
organized U.G.C Autonomous grant supported
one day National Workshop on, “Role of Human Values in Higher Education for Personal and Professional Excellence” on
1st February,
2017, at Maris Stella College, Vijayawada. Resource person of the Workshop was
R. Pradeep Kumar, Professor in Civil Engineering, Head, Earthquake Engineering
Research Centre, IIIT Hyderabad. Fifty two faculty members and eighty five
students of II MBA, II PG English, II PG Mathematics and II M.com students of
Maris Stella College participated in it.
Life is relationship based. The
purpose of education is to enable individuals in understanding these causal
relationships in life in addition to imparting skills and knowledge. It should
help the individuals to understand the essential harmony in the world around
them, empower them to participate proactively in life’s dynamics and contribute
to the real progress of self as well as community as a whole.Right
understanding and right initiatives like introducing a value based holistic
education in the present academic curricula will promote transformation of
human consciousness in achieving happiness and prosperity. Therefore, any such
initiatives taken to enrich teachers will have an effective role in building a
harmonious world as teachers are the pillars of the society.
Goal of the workshop
Evolving new models for the holistic education to be
incorporated into the existing system of education
in order to equip young people with knowledge, understanding, emotional,
attitudes and practical skills to live healthily, safely, responsibly,
productively and harmoniously throughout life.
Objectives
The National workshop aimed to:
Ø promote right
understanding and right relationship
Ø preference of
physical facilities in the right order
Ø pursue happiness,
prosperity and their continuity for all human beings in society
Ø focus on effective
performance of individuals, team and organization
Ø build value linked
ecosystem in the organizations to which participants belong.
Ø Expected outcomes
of the workshop
Ø Self- confidence,
Self-realization, and Self- esteem
Ø self- respect and
respect for others
Ø Peer pressure
related to deciding one’s own choices
Ø Harmonious human
relations.
Int
Institutional
quality is being reflected in its academic, administrative and extensional
activities through various initiatives and good practices taken with internal
and external support from experts of leading higher educational institutions
and industries. The prime focus of IQAC therefore is ‘plan of action’ of
developing realistic and attainable quality benchmarks in advance and ‘its
prompt time bound execution’.
Following list
provides a glimpse of IQAC significant activities:
- Orientation Program for fresh faculty members
- Orientation Program for faculty members
- Orientation for I year students regarding ‘Credits and Course Structure review’
- Orientation Program for students regarding CBCS courses
- Governing Body Meetings
- Academic Council Meeting
- National Seminar/ Workshop/Training programs
- Students Seminar/ Workshop/Training programs
- Seminar/ Training for Administrative Staff
- Placement training
- Alumni and Parents meet
- Feedback mechanism
- Appreciation Awards
- Strengthening of e-resources
- Internal Academic audit
- External Academic audit by Commissionerate of Collegiate Education (CCE), Government of Andhra Pradesh
- Administrative Audit by Provincial Superior FMM
- Submission of AQAR and Annual Report
- Updating website departmental blogs
- NIRF submission
- India Today Ranking data submission
2017-18
U.G.C Autonomous grant supported two day National Workshop
U.G.C Autonomous grant supported two day National Workshop
on
MOOCs impact in Enhancing Quality in Higher Education
30 th& 31 st December 2017
Prologue
Person-to-person and student-teacher communication can serve as inspirational, life-changing experiences. Many students look for their role models, both in peers and teachers, which can then shape their academic and work career. Parents and students feel that education is an investment into the future. Two major issues in higher education in the Digital Age today are: rising cost of attending higher education institutions and resorting to advances in digital technology as a possible way of alleviating this problem. High-end institutions has increased fee abnormally and Government run institutions, on the other hand, have seen significant reduction in government subsidies as a consequence of budget cuts reduce the quality, compelling more and more students to join corporate institutions where students paying heavy tuition fee is a big burden for parents.
An interaction via electronic media is an indistinguishable part of modern culture and is the greatest advancement we can now utilize for this new “cyber” generation. IT revolution brings out a solution for such situation. The new technology will hit colleges and universities with the force of a “tsunami” for online teaching and learning revolution. Improvements in IT such as greater access to Internet, improvements in Internet speed, reduction in storage costs, proliferation of sophisticated mobile devices and other technological advances have paved the way for cost reduction in online learning.Educational community should therefore, come to an agreement about how such information depository should be created and maintained, as it would surely serve “in the best interest of the public”. A new mind-set is a prerequisite to overcome barriers to adoption of online learning.
Substantial start-up costs in online learning involve: course development and IT equipment, costs of training personnel for this new mode of teaching, transaction costs of switching to hybrid mode etc. A great potential in collaborative effort within higher education community will help handling such scenario with a win-win situations.MOOCs, Developers of Coursera, edX, and Stanford’s Class2Go are possible leaders whom one can trust for such initiation. Adopting anyone of the above platform would be highly beneficial to researchers and faculty lookingto improve learning outcomes of their students.
New formats of online learning allows for constant feedback to student, thus, providing a better chance to students for completion of the course. Data collected from such feedback, generated by almost every click of a mouse is then stored, analysed, and can be used to further enhance learning platforms. Also, new formats of online learning allows for constant feedback to student, thus, providing a better chance to students for completion of the course. Data collected from such feedback, generated by almost every click of a mouse is then stored, analysed, and can be used to further enhance learning platforms. Students can explore multiple options to get the general impression of the courses before making a final enrollment decision. New formats of online, also provide potential students with an opportunity to take classes prior to enrollment in higher education. This would help them to perform well when they actually enroll and help increase completion rates. Through such new formats of online, students and faculty get a perspective of life and culture in the rest of the world which can have a profound influence on their ways of learning and teaching.
In conclusion, teaching humanity using online technologies would only add momentum in bringing clarity between the facts versus knowledge, skills versus wisdom, information versus insight, and provide “the answers to all questions – except the important ones like cleverness, compassion and harmony”.
Report of the Workshop
The Internal Quality Assurance cell of Maris Stella College organized a two day National Workshop on “MOOCs impact in Enhancing Quality in Higher Education” on 30th and 31st December, 2017. This workshop aimed at motivating higher educational institutions and academics to explore new opportunities, adopt new approaches for innovative practices in teaching and learning in the field of higher education, and evolve new online learning models through MOOCs for the holistic education to be incorporated into the existing system of higher education.Dr. Indira Koneru, e-Learning Department, IBS, ICFAI Group, IBS HO, Nagarjuna Hills, Hyderabad was the resource person.Eight external and thirteen internal faculty members were given intensive hands on experience in offering online courses through Moodle (Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment).
This two day workshop enabled theeducators to get insight about adoption of MHRD 4-Quadrant Approach that include: i) e-Tutorial, ii) e-Content, iii) Discussion forum, and iv)Assessment for offering MOOCs through Moodle. It also facilitated the faculty members to acquire Moodle-enabled online course development skills useful for:
- e-Content Management and Delivery: uploading, embedding, storing and delivering learning materials;
- e-Learning: facilitating interaction and communication with teachers, peers and content;
- e -Assessment: assessing and grading students’ performance
2016-17
One day National Workshop
One day National Workshop
on
“Role of Human Values in Higher Education for
Personal and Professional Excellence”
01-02-2017
Report
Internal quality assurance Cell of Maris Stella College,
organized U.G.C Autonomous grant supported
one day National Workshop on, “Role of Human Values in Higher Education for Personal and Professional Excellence” on
1st February,
2017, at Maris Stella College, Vijayawada. Resource person of the Workshop was
R. Pradeep Kumar, Professor in Civil Engineering, Head, Earthquake Engineering
Research Centre, IIIT Hyderabad. Fifty two faculty members and eighty five
students of II MBA, II PG English, II PG Mathematics and II M.com students of
Maris Stella College participated in it.
Life is relationship based. The
purpose of education is to enable individuals in understanding these causal
relationships in life in addition to imparting skills and knowledge. It should
help the individuals to understand the essential harmony in the world around
them, empower them to participate proactively in life’s dynamics and contribute
to the real progress of self as well as community as a whole.Right
understanding and right initiatives like introducing a value based holistic
education in the present academic curricula will promote transformation of
human consciousness in achieving happiness and prosperity. Therefore, any such
initiatives taken to enrich teachers will have an effective role in building a
harmonious world as teachers are the pillars of the society.
Goal of the workshop
Evolving new models for the holistic education to be
incorporated into the existing system of education
in order to equip young people with knowledge, understanding, emotional,
attitudes and practical skills to live healthily, safely, responsibly,
productively and harmoniously throughout life.
Objectives
The National workshop aimed to:
Ø promote right
understanding and right relationship
Ø preference of
physical facilities in the right order
Ø pursue happiness,
prosperity and their continuity for all human beings in society
Ø focus on effective
performance of individuals, team and organization
Ø build value linked
ecosystem in the organizations to which participants belong.
Ø Expected outcomes
of the workshop
Ø Self- confidence,
Self-realization, and Self- esteem
Ø self- respect and
respect for others
Ø Peer pressure
related to deciding one’s own choices
Ø Harmonious human
relations.
Int
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