A Teaching and Learning Centre established under the Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP-II) was declared open at the National Institute of Technology-Tiruchi (NIT-T) on Sunday.
The centre was opened by M. Anandakrishnan, former Vice-Chancellor, Anna University, in the presence of Rajaram Nityananda, Chairman, Board of Governors, NIT-T, and Srinivasan Sundarrajan, Director, NIT-T.
Dr. Anandakrishnan said the centre would serve the institution well given its large and diversified student profile.
The centre would seek to make teaching and learning enjoyable and productive for both teachers and students using latest technology. The centre would video record lectures of faculty members and upload them on to a local area network (LAN); procure authoring tool to help the faculty write books embedding multi-media components; conduct workshops; arrange lectures on effective teaching, video conferences on outcome based education; explore various techniques to make teaching a learner centric experience and train faculty. It would explore the use of social networking to increase the effectiveness of learning and organise national-level conclaves on teaching learning process.
G. Swaminathan, Registrar (Officiating), NIT-T, explained programmes taken up under TEQIP-II. The inaugural was followed by a symposium and panel discussion on effective teaching learning process with formers professors and alumni of NITT sharing their experiences.
