Teaching and Learning

 

Teaching and Learning

Teaching is a methodology to engage the learners and enable to understand and apply the knowledge, concepts and processes in a systematic and scheduled manner.

Teaching and learning is an educational setting environment of instructors who providing content, objectives, and goals; learners whom receiving knowledge, performance, and produce outcomes. “Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process” .

The purpose of teaching is not only to convey information, but also to transform students from submissive mode into active participants. It creates the didactic, communal, and moral conditions under which students agree to take charge of their own learning, individually and collectively. It should bring dull academic concepts to life with visual and practical learning experiences.

 

 Principles of Teaching

TEACHING PRINCIPLES

  • To encourage contact between students and faculty.
  • To develop reciprocity and cooperation among students.
  • To encourage active learning.
  • To give prompt feedback.
  • To emphasize time on task.
  • To communicate high expectations and enable them to prepare multimedia visualizations and presentations resulting in multi-sensory learning
  • Respect diverse talents and ways of learning
  • To explore alternate approaches through research and thinking differently.
  • To access to heaps of information at finger tips.
  • To compile and analyze the records and do data driven decisions.
  • To create a borderless communication with educationalist and industrialist experts.

LEARNING PRINCIPLES

  • Constructive education.
  • Learning should be an active process, in which one gain knowledge from experiences and interactions
  • Learning in a relevant context.
  • Collaborative learning.
  • Self-directed education.
  • Enable them to learn the subject in their own pace.
  • Create conducive learning environment and enable them to work creatively, to innovate and develop original outcomes.
  • Learning through experimentation and exploration. have hands on experience with the latest technology software providing new opportunities for creativity.
  • To increase their ICT proficiency and accomplish subject-based learning goals.

Student-Centric Methods Adopted

 EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

  • Hands-on-training in Practical Sessions
  • Internship Programme
  • Field Visits
  • Charts/Maps/Models
  • ICT Tools such as Google Classroom, Google Meet & Google Forms
  • Mind Maps using E-DrawMax
  • E-Content using Adobe Captivate
  • Open Source Software

PARTICIPATIVE LEARNING

  • Seminars/Conferences and Workshops
  • Paper Presentation
  • Science/Artefacts Exhibition
  • Group Discussion
  • Role Play/ Dramas/Debates
  • Videos/Films
  • Live Telecast of Budget session
  • Extension Activities
  • Intra/Inter-collegiate meet
  • Webinars on NET/SET
  • Pranic Healing
  • Yoga
  • Library

PROBLEM-SOLVING METHODOLOGIES

  • Project-based learning
  • Modelling
  • Case Studies/Survey
  • Soft Skill Programme

ICT TEACHING

 With the world rapidly evolving into digital media and information, the institution also constantly updates, learn and relearn the use of ICT to provide more learning environments focused on students. The institution has a wide number of ICT tools and e-resources to shape and enrich the skills of students. 

SMART CLASSROOMS

 All classrooms on the campus are Wi-Fi / ICT enabled. The laboratories, seminar hall, (multi-purpose hall) is well equipped with ICT facilities.

WI-FI

 The Institution upgraded the internet leased line facility to 100 mbps to provide secured and high speed Wi-Fi access to the Staff and Students.

  LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LMS)

Publishing the courses as closed access through a dedicated GASC Learning Management System ( https://gascsivakasi.edu.in) . GASC LMS provides a platform for the creation and distribution of E-Content learning resources

 GASC CONNECT

YouTube Channel of the College helps the students to watch the recorded video content of the courses anywhere and anytime.  It enables live streaming for promoting the quality of teaching.

 INFORMATION RESOURCE CENTRE (IRC)

The IRC of the Institution is member of E-Resources such as INFLIBNETDELNET and J-Gate. The library utilizers are provided with OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) service using MODERNLIB software.

E-Resources Links

23 Online La-Tex editor https://www.overleaf.com/

SI.No E-Resources Links
1 NPTEL videos http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/
2 Live Webcast services-Vyas Channel http://webcast.gov.in/index.html
3 CEC and INFLIBNET http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/edu/medialibrary.html
4 Virtual labs http://www.vlab.co.in/
http://virtual-labs.ac.in/
http://www.animalearn.org/links.php(for Zoology)
5 E-content on different discipline http://www.cec.nic.in/E-Content/Pages/Search.aspx
http://freevideolectures.com/free-college-courses-online/#Historyhttp://education-portal.com/academy/course/index.html
http://www.cosmolearning.com/
http://videolectures.net/
6 Indian History www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU3eqP-nxu8
http://clip.dj/indian-history-part-ii-download-mp3-mp4-l-W3UM7hpBU
7 LMS http://www.sfrmlearning.org/
8 Google Classroom https://classroom.google.com/
9 Google Meet https://meet.google.com/
10 Bigbluebutton https://bigbluebutton.org/
11 Edmodo https://new.edmodo.com/
12 Lecture Capturing System https://a.impartus.com/
13 Video Compressor online https://www.freeconvert.com/video-compressor
https://www.youcompress.com/
14 Power Director https://www.cyberlink.com/products/powerdirector-video-editing-software
15 Audacity https://www.audacityteam.org/
16 Adobe Captivate https://www.adobe.com/in/products/captivate.html
17 Presentation tube https://presentationtube.com/
18 Lime survey – Online survey tool https://www.limesurvey.org/
19 Four Eyes – Online survey tool https://getfoureyes.com/
20 Open Shot https://www.openshot.org/
21 Online board for teaching https://openboard.ch
https://awwapp.com/
22 Adobe Premier Pro https://www.adobe.com/in/products/premiere.html
23 Handbrake – video compressor https://handbrake.fr/
24 Video Editor https://filmora.wondershare.net/video-editor.html
25 Presentation software https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/powerpoint
26 Open Broadcaster Software https://obsproject.com/
27 Tiny take https://tinytake.com/tinytake-download
28 IDEONE https://ideone.com/

 

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