What is the Basic Philosophy of i-Max FDPs?
Swami Vivekandanda said, “A lighted lamp only can light another lamp”.
Therefore, we at i-Max believe, a smart class is where the teacher is smart. A teacher who can engage and inspire students shines like a diamond in the classroom, and finds a place in the students’ minds. He becomes the reason for the student’s hunger for learning, and can be called as a “leaning causer”. Therefore, the Faculty Development Programs must focus on building Pedagogical Excellence. The progress will naturally follow.
The Current Realities
All over the world, Teachers are competing with Instagram, & WhatsApp to capture students’ attention.
Challenges don’t end there! Most of the subject matter is available online – in various exciting formats. The rules like ABC give students multiple options – even to choose their teachers!
Traditional FDPs don’t empower teachers to face such challenges.
The Emerging Realities
The traditional employments are disappearing. Artificial Intelligence and automation remove the jobs that are in the lower levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy. Only those jobs where higher levels of Cognitive, Affective and Psychomotor skills will remain. Our systems are inadequate to create such students. Teachers are expected to pay the major role in this.
Key Areas where i-Max Focuses for FDPs.
As the traditional FDPs are inadequate to help the teaching community to deliver the expectations in teaching, learning & research, i-Max has crafted specific FDPs to meet the requirements of teaching community. They are:
1. 100+ Smart Ways to Use ChatGPT for an Exciting Classroom.
2. Artificial Intelligence for High-Impact Research (Without Plagiarism)
3. ChatGPT for Outcome-Based Inter-Disciplinary Studies & Research. (Without Plagiarism)
Why is it Unique?
This highly-immersive program applies the principles of active learning by mixing latest Pedagogical Theories, Multimedia technologies with Artificial Intelligence. Through prompting techniques, this program shows teachers how to craft lessons, tests, and other engaging and inspiring activities through Artificial Intelligence.
Deliverables:
Over one hundreds methods to use ChatGPT in the classroom: explained with hands-on experience. Teachers learn the latest learning theories that is behind each exciting technics deployed in the program.
Outcomes:
1. Teachers learn the ways to make any boring subject/topic interesting by custom prompting. They will be able to extract examples, stories, anecdotes, tests, biographies, activities, etc that are contextual.
2. Teachers can develop the requirements of OBE, NAAC and NIRF. Create appropriate POs, COs, Formative & Summative Assessments and Tests.
What is Unique in This?
This highly focused program trains research scholars, teachers, research guides, on the brilliant ways for creating new and original research without plagiarism. When used “research methodology” brilliantly with customised prompts, ChatGPT becomes a God sent tool for the researcher. At the same time, direct use of AI tools are a trap for plagiarism.
Deliverables:
From the start to end of Research Methodology, ChatGPT is embedded with custom crafted prompts. The participants get the knowledge to dig deep into the research problem and develop new and original knowledge for the theses, or for a number of other publications.
Outcomes:
1. New and Original research, that was not probable without the knowledge to use customised prompting of ChatGPT.
2. Research scholars, teachers, and research guides are able to smoothen the research process and deliver high levels of innovation through applied critical thinking, and adoption of best practices.
What is Unique in This?
This high-intensity program makes the complex field of inter-disciplinary studies and research easy and interesting with the power of Artificial Intelligence. The researchers learn to unearth new and original innovations by crafting unique, contextualised prompts that are not possible with standard AI tools.
Deliverables:
The unique techniques to find inter-disciplinary problems and the methods to find solutions. From the start to end of Research Methodology, ChatGPT is embedded with custom crafted prompts. The participants get the knowledge to dig deep into the research problem and develop new and original knowledge for the theses, or for a number of other publications.
Outcomes:
1. Unearthing of inter-disciplinary problems. Creation of New and Original research, that was not probable without the knowledge to use customised prompting of ChatGPT.
2. Smart inter-disciplinary research helps Research scholars, teachers, and research guides to smoothen the research process and deliver high levels of inter-disciplinary innovation through applied critical thinking, and adoption of best practices.
