Bhubaneswar: Astha School of Management conducted its 7th All Orissa Lecturer’s Meet recently. More than 200 academicians from different institutions participated in the event.
“Like every year, this year, too, we organised lecturers’ meet based on the theme ‘Innovation and Teaching: An inevitable Reality’. We hope to see this seminar produce an upgrade in teaching methodology and process,” Assistant Professor Biswaranjan Parida said.
The meeting was also attended by Rajesh Sahay, senior vice-president and head (HR) at Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting. He said lecturers and professors themselves needed to improve their teaching methodology to keep pace with the technological advancements changes that are continuous. He said one could start an enterprise with an idea and the Internet and that teachers needed to fire the imagination of students to make this happen. It can happen only when a teacher is more informed, he added.
Professor Pratap Mohapatra from IIT Bhubaneswar, who was the guest of honour of the one-day event, said, “Teaching bereft of new ideas and thoughts and delivered in an uninspiring way can be dull, unattractive and ineffective.”
In turn, Ashok Kumar Magaraj, director Brainstain and chief speaker at the event, said: “A tutor must be innovative and analytical in its method of disseminating information so as to match global standards.” The management school also unveiled its first volume of Astha’s Management Journal ‘Anweshan’ and the 2nd volume of ‘Praksaran’ the Astha souvenir.
PNN
