Challenges Faced

By

School of Computer Science & IT

DAVV

What should be the paradigm

for the 21st century SCSIT

What is our CS Graduate?

• Not a Designer• Not an Analyst• Not a Communicator• Not a Team member/Leader• Not a Visionary• Not a Professional• Not an Innovator• Only an aloof Coder

EMPLOYER’S VIEWSEmployers are complaining that academic

programmes from schools to Universities simply don’t teach what people need to know and be able to do.

They want people who can think intuitively,

who can communicate well, work in teams,

and are flexible, adaptable and self - confident

Finish your homework. There are students in China and

………who want your job.

Issues

• Quality of our graduate

• Growth to match needs of Society

• Dynamism in CS/IT Job Requirements

How to tackle above issues in constraints of existing university environment?

Challenges

• Faculty Quality and Needs

• Dynamism in Course Curriculum

• Use of Technology

• Assessment for Quality

Challenges: Faculty Motivation

•Self Motivation

•Possible Carrots

•Freedom

•Facilities

•Responsibility

•Innovation

•Participation

Challenge met: Faculty Motivation

• Best Teaching Award• International Conf Participation• Best Practices Preparation• Organizational leadership• Participative Experiences in Decision

Making• Career Growth• International Tour by Faculty and students

What Next for Faculty

• Creating a shared learning environment

• Peer Interaction

Challenges: Dynamism in Curriculum

• To Meet Career Objectives

• Fast Changes in CS and its vastness

• Learning skills and diversity of Learners

• Learning attitude

• Learners past learning ethics

Challenges: Dynamism in Curriculum

• Learning rather than teaching

• Flexibility to suit learner’s aptitude and interest

• Multidisciplinary / interdisciplinary approach

• Border less learning

• Multicultural and international experience

• Life long Learner

Challenges Met: Dynamism in Curriculum

• Curriculum Design

• Define Program Outcomes with stake holders involvement

• Determine Courses for Program Outcomes

• Design Courses with Defined Learning Outcomes

• Evaluate the success of the Courses through structured assessment

Challenges Met: Dynamism in Curriculum

• Publication of detailed curriculum, online as well as printed copy to all students

• ABET International standards• UK Accreditation standard for Curriculum details

and assessment• Online student feedback (mid sem, end sem)• End semester Workshop on Assessment,

proceedings online (6th Workshop First week Jan 2010)

• Feedback on improvements given to faculty

Fall 2003

Assessment Design Steps

Step #1Step #1Define results Define results

to be to be measuredmeasured

Step #2Step #2Identify dataIdentify datarequired &required &

sourcessources

Step #3Step #3Review existingReview existing

assessment assessment methodsmethods

Step #5Step #5ImplementImplement

andandevaluateevaluate

Step #4Step #4Define additionalDefine additional

methods andmethods andmeasuresmeasures

ContinuousContinuousImprovementImprovement

What Next: Dynamism in Curriculum

• Vertical and Horizontal Mobility

• Credit transfer and accumulation

• Continuous relationship with stakeholders

• Interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary …..

• Social issues

Transformative research and education: Potential to revolutionize an existing discipline through a paradigm shift or

create a new one, with a high potential for advancing a field of study.

Challenge: Use of Technology• Increased Population

• Innovation in Teaching

• Learner’s dynamism (slow/fast learners)

Challenge: Use of Technology• Better experience of Learning

• Efficiency and Productivity

• Distributed Learning

• Global Learning materials

Cyber infrastructure

Challenge: Use of Technology

• Learners attitude

• Teacher’s approach

• Transparency

• Ethics

• First step?

Challenge Met: Use of Technology

• Complete process of admission was online

• Increased outreach and efficient

• Conference, workshops and Seminars facilitated through ICT

• One-Student One-Laptop

• Wi-Fi Environment

What Next: Use of Technology

• Online Lecture material is mandatory• More transparency and open environment for

betterment• Thrill of learning and better learning experiences

with ICT

THINKING

LAB

Research

• Currently about 20 research scholars registered in the School, and 3-4 are awarded Ph.D each year

• UGC-SAP, DST-FIST, UGC-BSR Grants awarded in past 2 years for about 1.2 Crores to initiate many research areas

Future Proposals

• New Programmes

• 1. M.Tech-Ph.D (Modular 4 years programme with exit after M.Tech)

• 2. M.Sc-M.Tech (Modular 3.5 years, post B.Sc)

Future Proposals

• New Programmes (Interdisciplinary/Multidisciplinary)

B.Tech (Informatics) specialization ina. Bio-Informatics

b. Industrial Informatics

c. Health-Informatics

d. Pharma/Chemo Informatics

e. Nano-Informatics

f. Forensic Informatics

Future Proposals

• New Programmes (Inter-disciplinary)

a. M.Tech (Information System/Technology Management) (post M.B.A also permitted)

b. M.Tech (Knowledge Management) (post M.B.A also permitted)

c. M.Tech (e-Governance) (post M.B.A also permitted)

Future Proposals

• New Programmes (For Commerce Stream)

• 1. BCA (Accounting Inf. Sys.)

• 2. MCA (Accounting Inf. Sys)

• 3. MCA (SAP/ERP)

• 4. MCA (Business Information System)

PATH OF FUTURE

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