Today, I spent the whole twenty-four hours away from office. IIT Kanpur is hosting the Indo-European Workshop on Quality Assurance inward Higher Technical Education. We had speakers from Univ. of Lausanne, Switzerland, Lund University, Sweden, equally good the local speakers from IIT Kanpur. The speakers from Europe had done tremendous sum of query inward higher education, together with it was a pleasance to brain to them. Every fourth dimension I attend such a workshop (I attended 1 inward Feb 2011 at Delhi also), I acquire to a greater extent than virtually the teaching learning process, together with I commencement hoping that 1 day, IITK volition experience the need to convey a middle for query inward higher technical education, which could furnish us advice on issues that nosotros confront inward teaching. But the attendance was really disappointing. From virtually fifteen faculty members from IITK inward the morning, it dwindled to virtually v inward the final session - together with almost all of them were the organizers.
The form of back upward that such a middle inward Lund University provides to its faculty includes all aspects of teaching learning process, together with fifty-fifty how to improve interaction with PhD students. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 typical reply of a faculty fellow member inward most such matters is, "I am a PhD, together with I convey taught for then long. My students are doing then good inward life. I don't need no preparation to acquire a amend teacher." I promise that they would at to the lowest degree seek together with encounter how skillful assist tin flaming convert a goodness instructor into an fifty-fifty amend teacher.
There was a verbalise on assessing together with rewarding excellence inward teaching. And I realize nosotros don't create fifty-fifty the obvious. The speaker said that in that place are 4 stages of assessment - deciding criteria on which assessment is made, collecting evidence that criteria are met, standards to guess the evidence, together with an opened upward together with transparent procedure to tally all this. And he gave illustration of all this equally they follow inward their university. When I hold back at awards at IITK, the criteria are frequently wide together with ill-defined, the evidence is hearsay with the commission members, in that place is no peer review, together with in that place is no agency to detect out who were nominated, what were their achievements, together with why the honour was given to someone.
There was an interesting observation past times 1 speaker. Most of us convey no problems with peers reviewing our research, only nosotros don't desire our teaching to hold upward peer reviewed. As a professional, why shouldn't all output of ours hold upward peer reviewed?
The workshop continues tomorrow. I am actually looking forwards to it.
Here is the workshop homepage. I convey been told that all presentations volition hold upward uploaded soon.
The form of back upward that such a middle inward Lund University provides to its faculty includes all aspects of teaching learning process, together with fifty-fifty how to improve interaction with PhD students. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 typical reply of a faculty fellow member inward most such matters is, "I am a PhD, together with I convey taught for then long. My students are doing then good inward life. I don't need no preparation to acquire a amend teacher." I promise that they would at to the lowest degree seek together with encounter how skillful assist tin flaming convert a goodness instructor into an fifty-fifty amend teacher.
There was a verbalise on assessing together with rewarding excellence inward teaching. And I realize nosotros don't create fifty-fifty the obvious. The speaker said that in that place are 4 stages of assessment - deciding criteria on which assessment is made, collecting evidence that criteria are met, standards to guess the evidence, together with an opened upward together with transparent procedure to tally all this. And he gave illustration of all this equally they follow inward their university. When I hold back at awards at IITK, the criteria are frequently wide together with ill-defined, the evidence is hearsay with the commission members, in that place is no peer review, together with in that place is no agency to detect out who were nominated, what were their achievements, together with why the honour was given to someone.
There was an interesting observation past times 1 speaker. Most of us convey no problems with peers reviewing our research, only nosotros don't desire our teaching to hold upward peer reviewed. As a professional, why shouldn't all output of ours hold upward peer reviewed?
The workshop continues tomorrow. I am actually looking forwards to it.
Here is the workshop homepage. I convey been told that all presentations volition hold upward uploaded soon.
