B-Log

Lights, Camera, Teach! Online Teaching & Faculty Professional Development Challenges The Covid-19 caused shut down of educational institutions and the subsequent switch to online education have raised the bars across the Globe for teachers. This apparently transitory fully online mode of delivery has changed the equations and parameters in terms of what the faculty members of Higher education institutions have been generally doing so far. This upending of the performance modes and delivery methods have pushed the faculty all over simultaneously into panic mode and preparation frenzy, obviously running the risk of preparing in a panic mode too! Though one can comfort oneself with the reassuring thought that this too will pass, what lies on the other side of COVID 19 is a worrying concern, if we are not prepared for the so called New Normal. Because what lies on the other side of the current crisis-mode –teaching will be a Normal in which the students and learning exp...

If what was reported in the social media sometime ago was true, an MLA once asked a Minister whether Professorship category existed in Colleges. The reply from the Education Minister was that it doesn't, even though, they say, the response was from the minister who designated himself as Professor! The tendency to brand oneself as professor among College faculty members is on the rise for while. Many of those who have even recently joined the educational service as faculty prefix a Prof. before their names. Or, that is what I feel when I go through some of the reports in the media regarding College activities. As a result almost all of the college faculty are entitled to be designated Professors that way! Some relate this with seniority. If you have been in service for a while, have been teaching long, then you can stick the label on you. Or you can allow others to stick it on you. It grows on you and you take a new feel about who you are! A Professor Babu enables you to be...