Mumbai: next academic year, several courses in Iit-Bombay will be delivered unconventional. The Premier Institute has decided to improve existing teaching pedagogy Activity -based learning centered on Problem solving projectsimproved Practical training and greater emphasis on the interactions in the classroom based on the discussion. It will not be a unique solution for all and, therefore, will have specific approaches to the department.
One of the proposed initiatives will be summer volunteer internships for first -year students in their own cities of origin to address local and socially relevant local problems with the help of the school chapters of the Institute.
The idea is to see traditional approaches in the teaching learning process, given the way online resources have transformed education. Many members of the Faculty designated in the last three years have shown interest in jointly developing innovative pedagogy for their classrooms before the new semester. The decision has been molded by the feedback of the Teaching Learning Evaluation (TLA) Student Review Committee and Faculty members on Campus.
“The approach … is to foster an ecosystem in which learning is a natural expression and students have the opportunity to discover and take advantage of their innate talents. The effort is based on an ascending approach and is being carried out through discussions and workshops with students, teachers, former students and experts,” said a professor of the review committee.
The first phase, courses that incorporate shared contextual learning practices, practical classroom and exhibition exercises in the field, and industry internships and students will be implemented in the 2025-26 academic year. The committee is also proposing to introduce voluntary internships At the first year level, for students to take technical problems with social relevance in their hometown with the help of the students of the Institute.
The approach is to promote an ecosystem where learning is a natural expression and students have the opportunity to discover and take advantage of their innate talents.
A IIT-B teacher part of the review committee
Iit-Bombay director, Professor Shireesh Kedare, said the TLA committee had a meeting with about 100 members of the Faculty of different departments. “They are willing to offer courses of the next semester in activity mode. The idea is to have a more project -based learning, based on the exhibition and discussion oriented. Students should be able to solve problems instead of depositing in intelligence -based artificial tools. It will be tailored to the needs of students and departments,” Kedare said. The TLA review committee also had a meeting with students and alumni and more meetings of this type are planned in the near future.
The review committee was created after the five -year review report presented last year highlighted the need to evolve the teaching learning process. The report had said: ‘… Given the considerable expansion of the institute, there is a growing consensus on the need for academic supervision, improvement of teaching quality, advisory students and researchers for careers in academia or R&D, standardization of qualification practices, systematic collection of comments and a possible review of academic policies …’
The professor of the review committee said: “Student aspirations have undergone important changes during the last decade. This proposed initiative is important for the faculty agency to serve students in the institute, and in turn, the future leadership of the country. The IITs were established in the late fifties and 60 as part of the nation’s construction exercise, and now they must be part of the new creation of the new future as India, 2047.
