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October
2008 heralded a new era with the creation of the Centre
for Learning
Technologies (CTL) guided by the mission to facilitate
the faculty of Kalasalingam University on soft skills and
related
disciplines. The courses on pedagogy, soft skills training
and department specific refresher courses is aimed at enabling
faculty to train students to meet global requirements as
well as get equip them for on and off campus training.
Visiting faculties from premier institutions around the
nation – IISc,
IITs , IIMs , ISI, NITs, R&D labs to name a few and
also from abroad will conduct on campus training in the
university
premises.
The success story began with four programmes organised by
the CLT within three months and so far now 30 programs and
830 participants gaining expertise. 80 non teaching staff
members benefitted through 5 programs. The new approach to
Student Centric learning is being taught the faculty to implement
in classrooms. The detailed planning will create a flexible
framework that will integrate classroom lectures with practical
projects and bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge
and its implementation in real time. The courses are planned
to cater the faculty to gain or to improve their content
preparation for delivery, diversified methods to deliver
the content and able to counsel the students. CLT facilitates
the staff to upgrade them self on modern technologies. It
caters non teaching staff to strength their career development,
stress management and communication skills. Smart class rooms
are created to explore the modern teaching methods to the
staff members to make interactive sessions and such sessions
will be saved and distributed to the students. CLT has purchased
NPTEL material and provide viz. servers and since entire
campus is connected by Wi-Fi any faculty can download E-Learning
materials for their demonstration. Kalasalingam University
is member of ICT Academy of Tamil Nadu, an Initiative of
Govt of India, Govt of Tamil Nadu and CII, An IS0 9001 -
2008 Certified Organisation.
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OBJECTIVES
- Faculty Induction programs for fresh
teaching and non-teaching staff members
- Train the modern teaching learning process viz Smart
Class Rooms
- Promoting innovating teaching methodologies.
- Department specific need based refresher courses.
- To collaborate with industries and national level
training institutes of mutual interest.
- Encouraging faculty members to participate
off campus programs
- Developing innovative teaching aids /
course materials using modernized teaching
tools
for better understanding
of slow
student learners.
- Faculty exchange programs with national
as well as international level academies.
- Continuous improvement in class room
and laboratory techniques
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