Dear MTCians,
B-Schools world over face the scarcity of staff and paucity of resources. We need to innovate, connect and collaborate to optimize the results.
Please share your considered views and new ideas to benefit our fraternity across India.
With warmest regards,
Sincerely,
Prof. G. Surender Reddy,
Director,
M.C.Gupta College of Business Management,
Nallakunta, O.U. Road, Hyderabad - 500007
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On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 5:07 AM, kiran paranjpe <kdparanjpe@rediffmail.com> wrote:
Dear Sirs. Some very interesting thoughts are being exchanged in this forum.
The threads on skill building for faculty members has exercised the minds of the readers and there is agreement that this should be an ongoing exercise. The need for the same has also been amply articulated. But these would remain platitudes if we continue to go on the beaten path.
I would like to share an experience that throws some light on how the skill building exercise can be taken up on continuing basis.
1. It is becoming clear that the old mode of knowledge delivery through conventional lecturing is becoming more and more dysfunctional. The Internet and the information explosion has made it so.
2. These days even case discussions have also lost their sheen since a lot of homework needs to be done for a real learning interaction in the classroom.
3. Task based learning is seen to emphasize activities requiring the skills.
I have attended sessions where excellent case discussions were conducted with minimal home preparation and this encouraged me to also try it out in the real classroom of young pupils.
I must say that the results were mixed. I enjoyed class discussions in slightly older and more experienced students than among the fresh graduates.
In the subject of entrepreneurship I attended a program where the topic was "Assessing business opportunities by the Entrepreneur". In the program, the case discussion involved the participation of the trainer-students. The case also had a number of tasks that the students had to do. The emphasis was to enable the trainer to conduct the same case for their own students. This meant a discussion of the steps of: Introducing the context of the case, leading to defining the contours of the problem, restricting the scope of the solutions to a few important decisions and applying the tools of analysis.The idea was to enable the trainers to conduct the case discussion as per the guidelines and in turn improve the quality of the discussion.
The teacher thus had a) a well discussed case b) a reference technique involving tasks to do in the class; to compare his own performance and c) a well laid down process for conducting the case. The only thing remaining was the actual practice and the feedback on the session from the students.This was to be obtained on actual performance.
The same kind of inputs I had from a workshop on Operations Management. Here again "standard cases" were discussed relating to formulating a linear programming problem. Teachers were then asked to discuss these cases in their own classroom and build on their own experience.
The experience suggests that there should be a set of tasks logically connected to the theory and the content that will enable the tasks to be done identically across different classrooms; that all teachers should do in the class, record their experiences and share them with the larger academic community.
I am sure that this will enable skill building of the teaching skills even on an online basis.
I am not so sure about the FDPs that involve inviting eminent teachers to talk of their experience in the conventional lecture format.
These are my personal views.
Best regards,
K.Paranjpe
On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 20:23:39 +0530 wrote
> From: abhijit bhattacharya
To: "join_mtc@googlegroups.com"
Cc: Prof. Bholanath DuttaSent: Monday, 24 September 2012 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: [MTC Global] Staff Crunch in B-School
I agree with Gowri that a skill development centre can be quite useful. Such a centre is necessary for upgrading skills of every faculty, whether coming from the industry or elsewhere. I had mentioned sometime ago on a forum that, just because someone
worked in the
industry for many years didn't automatically make him/her a candidate
for a faculty position. Similarly, a faculty who has been teaching for
many years cannot automatically, as a rule, take up a high-profile managerial
job. I saw many top notch industry experts who did a very poor job of teaching while dealing with such basic subjects like, say, pricing; the academic rigour badly found wanting. Similarly,
a faculty, who say, teaches QT or OM,
may not have any clue how on-the-spot decisions are today made in the
industry
using streaming data, both structured and unstructured.
Skill centre must also train faculty members to master the art of new age teaching...in most of the institutes one can find that a faculty simply runs through the power point slides and restates whatever has been already mentioned in the reading material for a specific class. When the faculty can upload all slides and reading material on the intranet along with the course outline in the beginning of the semester itself then classtime must be used to bring-out the key learning points for the class through creative thinking and stimulating discussions.
Regards,
Abhijit Bhattacharya, PhD
Director,
Centre for Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business
University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Uriah Butler Highway,
Mount Hope,
Trinidad
Phone: +1 (868) 645-6700 ext 360
Cell:+1 (868) 783 5033
Fax: 1-868 662-6976
Email:a.bhattacharya@lokjackgsb.edu.tt;abhijit1957@gmail.com
Website:www.lokjackgsb.edu.tt
-----Original Message-----
From: join_mtc@googlegroups.com [mailto:join_mtc@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Usha Gowri
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2012 10:18 PM
To: join_mtc@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [MTC Global] Staff Crunch in B-School
It is interesting that the colleges are not willing to fill the vacancies.There are people from the industry who would like to teach but the colleges have
not responded.
A skill development centre is a great idea and should be thought
through.
The problem however runs deeper-we need to get talent to teach without looking only at the industry for opportunities.That means not better pay but better work conditions-like autonomy and independence,freedom to be creative, allowing experimentation .If we can focus learning than just teaching this problem can be mitigated to some extent Regards Gowri
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Prof. Bholanath Dutta wrote:Web Link: www.mtcglobal.org Email: bnath.dutta@gmail.com/president@mtcglobal.org
[ As reported in an Article in the supplementary issue of Indian Management Magazine by AIMA, Sep/2012, Page-34]
In India, there are no fewer than 3,500 business schools with about 400 students each. That makes the student strength 1.4 million. The AICTE has mandated faculty: student= 1:
15. This means B-school
required 90,000 teachers. Against this , B-Schools admit , the vacancies are as high as 50%. There is a sort of at least 45,000 teachers.
This statement raises many issues need to be addressed:
1. If adequate faculty strength is not there, how the colleges are conforming to the AICTE Guidelines?
2. Outsourcing faculty from overseas but cost is a great concern.
3. Premier B-schools ( IIMs, ISB etc) have received applications from faculty aboard in recent years.
4. Most of the B-schools are managing with Visiting/Adjunct/Guest Faculty.
5. Ghost faculty ( not explaining in details purposely).
6.
Quality is a concern definitely.
7. Quality costs and many colleges are compromising in this area.
8. B-schools are managing their activities , excellence is taking backseat.
9. There needs to be a national level skill development centre in India for development of B-school faculty. I strongly feel MTC can take it up with the support of college management and industry partnership.
Request vises/opinions/reflections/suggestions on the subject.
EDUCATE, EMPOWER, ELEVATE
Bholanath Dutta
Founder, President & Convener: MTC Global
--K.D.Paranjpe
Mentor-MTC Global Student Chapter
Ouliya Global Foundation (NGO)
Founder-President
"The world is full of
abundance and opportunity, but >far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank >car... a teaspoon
instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result >they get little." ~ Ben Sweetland
"Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose."Dr. Wayne Dyer
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