Re: [MTC Global] [Weekend Big Debate-I] Smaller Class sizes will lead to higher success

I do remember the AICTE norms about Teacher: Students ratio, for MBA/MCA, it is 1:12 and for UG 1:20.
 
But most of the colleges in India the ratio goes to 1: 20 for MBA and 1:50 for UG.
 
Harvard Business School started in 1909 with 90 students and 16 full-time Lecturers.
 
In our university, (Divine Word University) the class size is 30. That means we don't take admissions more than 30 in a batch, whether it is MBA, Bachelor of Management or Diploma Programs.
 
I have the experience of teaching 200 students in a class room (hall), therefore I know it makes lots of difference in the quality of teaching and learning.​


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On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Dr R P Singh <rpsingh55@hotmail.com> wrote:

For Management Education institutions, when they started in sixties, seventies and early eighties, class size was only 30.

That was ideal size,  keeping skill building intent of the education in view. However, when it was started as a commercial venture, in later part of eighties onwards, class  size kept on increasing to 60,  120 or even beyond.

While knowledge sharing classes could be organised even for larger class sizes of 100, 200 but competencies building classes,  workshop styles,  ideally could be for  20 to 30 max.

There could be a mix of the two for optimisation of resources. But that does not happen nor it is  feasible normally for an institution , if depending on part time or visiting faculty heavily.

However, incidentally, most institutions today focus on maximisation of use of resources for maximisation of generation of surplus.

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On 3 Apr 2016 22:40, "'Grajkhowa' via Management Teachers Consortium, Global" <join_mtc@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Big cohorts can be  divided into learning support groups each of 5 -6 members each . The main delivery could be a lecture format   ( 60 /75/90 minutes) with 100 -150 students . These sessions could be one or two per week depending on curriculum requirement , followed by tutor facilitated workshops  where students attend in their learning groups .  Each workshop could accommodate 6 - 7 learning groups ( session duration  120 -180 mins) .
Frequency of workshops would depend on the curriculum design . this could be once every fortnight  thus allowing for resource optimisation ( if that is a driver) . 

There is ample evidence to favour small group learning . 

Gautam 

Gautam  Rajkhowa 
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On 2 Apr 2016, at 03:56, Virendra Goel <goel.virendra@gmail.com> wrote:

Experience of coaching classes show that even 200/300 students can be taught simultaneously. In School system where individual student needs more attention, some low fees schools are running the classes with as much as 90 students and their students have done equally go in comparison to schools with 30 students.

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Virendra Goel

 

From: join_mtc@googlegroups.com [mailto:join_mtc@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Prof. Bholanath Dutta
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2016 1:43 PM
To: join_mtc
Subject: [MTC Global] [Weekend Big Debate-I] Smaller Class sizes will lead to higher success

 

Do you agree? Smaller class size means less than 30. But, is it possible? General practice is more than 60 students mean 2 class rooms. Having more class rooms will be a cost burden on faculty , infrastructure and other overheads.

 

Request share experiences on this and also handling bigger class size effectively.

 

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EDUCATE, EMPOWER, ELEVATE

Prof. Bholanath Dutta

Founder &  President 

MTC Global: An Apex Global Advisory Body

in Management Education, ISO 9001: 2008

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