The Departments of Printing Technology in School of Engineering – Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science & Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore and PVG’s College of Engineering and Technology, Pune, jointly organized a 5-Day online Faculty Development Program on “Online tools and techniques for Printing and Packaging” from June 22nd to 26th 2020, exclusively for the faculties of printing institutes.
The conveners of the FDP, Dr. TKS Lakshmi Priya, HoD, Printing Technology, Avinashilingam Institute and Prof. Madhura Mahajan, HoD, Printing Engineering, PVG’s COET, Pune took care of the smooth conduct of this FDP.
The inaugural address was rendered by Sunil P. Redekar, Registrar, Pune Vidyarthi Griha and Director, PVG’s COET, Dr. Kalyani Kulkarni, Principal, P.V.G.’s COET and Prof. K.N. Rajarao, Director, School of Engineering, Avinashilingam Institute.
Dr. Rajendra Kumar Anayath, VC, DCRUST University, Haryana, Prof Kamal Chopra, Honorary Professor in many Printing Institutes and Dayakar Reddy, Founder President, GIPT, Secunderabad Alumni Association delivered Special Addresses.
In the AN session of the first day, one of the speakers Dr. Nandha Kumar, Principal, Arasan Ganesan Polytechnic, Sivakasi conveyed how their Institute had created a dedicated website for hosting valuable educational content on Printing Technology and made it available for anyone to access and get benefited.
On the second day, Panthalaselvan, MD, Idealliance South Asia presented the results of 2 surveys that he had conducted specifically for this FDP. One was a survey on faculty members for online teaching readiness. The second reflected students’ views on online lecture. The results of the survey indicated that institutions and teachers are not yet prepared for online teaching and therefore it is time to step up with effective ways to teach and make students involve in this process.
Prof. Shrikala, Asst. Prof, PVG’s COET, Pune held a session to bring out the differences between classroom teaching and online teaching styles. The challenges for online teaching and how to handle it was discussed.
Ashish Mittal, Yugasa Software Labs, Haryana explained all the details, limitations, options available for control etc. for using the online tools.
Prof.Laxmi Sapkal, Asst. Prof, PVG’s COET, Pune briefed about ICT tools usage and challenges while using them. She emphasised that competency level of teachers for adopting technical know-how is need sooner than later.
Mrs.T.Mirthubashini, Asst. Prof, Avinashilingam Institute highlighted the need for basic knowledge in the installation and configuration of computer hardware, software and computer networking.
On the third day, C.N.Ashok, Autoprint Machinery Manufacturers, shared his views on the evaluation of a candidate in service after regular interval. Passion for Quality, Cost Prudence, Communication Skill, Customer Centric, Team Player, Taking Ownership, Willingness to Learn and Develop, etc as the right parameters for the evaluation.
Madhura Mahajan, HoD, PVG’s COET deliberated how Rubrics can be generated for effective evaluation various approaches towards designing of it. Interaction with the participants and question answer session was followed by presentation.
On Day- Four Jacob George, Director Pressideas Publishing (P) Ltd , mentioned the advantages of Open Educational Resources (OER), primarily being an alternative to expensive books.
A.Alagusundari, Asst. Prof, Avinashilingam Institute, shared how to find different categories of OERs from the Internet , use them as reference materials, how to attribute other people’s the OER in ones work.
J.Veeranathan, Balaji Institute of Computer Graphics, Coimbatore demonstrated skilfully how to create a GIF animation in Adobe Photoshop. Dr.Mrs.A.Arulmozhi, Assoc. Prof, Avinashilingam Institute, demonstrated the use of blogs for posting content.
On Day-Five, Harveer Sahni, Chairman Weldon Celloplast Ltd., and a expert Blogger shared his views about blogging. He had begun blogging 15years ago and had mastered the art of gathering information and sharing personal views and experiences on technical and happenings in label industry.
Prof. Mrs. Padmaja Joshi, PVG showcased the range of experiments on material sciences that she has created as VLabs under IIT Bombay. She ran through a few experiments to show how students can use these for lab experiments. Several Panel Discussions were held at different time-periods during these 5 days in which valuable ideas were shared and it helped in exchange of clearer perspectives and knowledge for the students’ betterment.