Greater Noida: The Valedictory Session of Two weeks AICTE Sponsored Online Faculty Development Program- Phase 3 on “Exploration of Nascent Pedagogical Tools for Updating Teachers of Pharmacy Education” was chaired by Prof. Shailendra Saraf, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur & Vice-President, Pharmacy Council of India. Around 480 participants from 92 different institutions, spread amongst 18 different states across the country confirmed their participation, out of which 204 were finally short-listed.
Prof. Shailendra Saraf quoted “Pedagogy is an art of teaching”. Elaborating on the vision of academic profession he asserted two important festivals in the plethora of education, i.e., “Festival of Teaching and Festival of Learning”. He mainly emphasized on the roles of teachers and their leadership quality by setting few example of Shri Krishna in Bhagwat Gita & from the teachings of Sushruta Samhita.
An initiative of Lloyd Institute of Management and Technology (Pharm.), this program was planned with a motive to acquaint an update to the faculty members, research scholars, and academicians with the various pedagogical tools for the effective teaching process enabling a better outcome.
The major highlights of the program was online lectures for the FDP sessions was delivered by the expert pioneers from various institutions such as Gurukula Kangri (Deemed to be University), Haridwar; Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Haryana; University SWAYAM; AIMST University, Malaysia; National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, GOI, New Delhi; Frankfurt, Germany; International Journal of Drug Regulatory Affairs; UniSkills India; Gladwin International to be named a few.
The third phase of FDP featured 24 technical sessions extended for 34 hours that were conducted by 16 different speakers around the globe. The sessions were skillfully amalgamated between the talks from academicians, pedagogical experts, pioneers from leading industries & government agencies to ensure the attainment of the objective.
This program was successfully conducted under the guidance of Patron: Shri. Manohar Thairani, President, Lloyd Group of Institutions; Convenor & Coordinator: Dr. Vandana Arora Sethi, Group Director, Lloyd Group of Institutions, & Co-ordinators: Dr. Lalit K. Tyagi, Professor & Dr. Chitra Gupta, Professor, Lloyd Institute of Management and Technology (Pharm.).