3-day long faculty dev prog on e-learning organized at MAM College Jmu

Jammu: Department of Computer Sciences, Government MAM P G College, Jammu in wake of Pandemic Covid-19 and in the interest of academics organized a 3 day long Faculty Development Program webinar on “E-learning: Tools for Teaching and Learning” June 1, 2020 under the supervision of Prof. P.S. Thakur (Head of Department Computer Sciences) and Dr. Namita Singh, Organizing Secretary under the guidance of Principal Prof. G.S Rakwal.
Addressing the participants through online mode on the concluding day of the program, the Principal of the College urged all the participants to adopt the new e-learning technologies and utilize them to impart quality education to the students. He also termed online webinars as a new platform for online studies and stressed that the teachers should be well equipped with the new online teaching technologies.
Assistant Professor, ITS Ghaziabad, Prof. Chanda Jain, Assistant Professor, GDC Poonch Dr. Tariq Hussain and Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Sciences, Central University Jammu Dr. Bhavna Arora, were the resource persons for the 3 day long Faculty Development Program Webinar.
The resources persons delivered lectures online using Google meet and the participants were educated about the various e-learning tools like Google Classroom, Screencastify, WebEx and were given hands on training on creating Google forms, quizzes, assignments and were also given detailed training on sharing e-content from Google drives using different techniques. The participants were also sensitized about the ethical standards that must be adhered while creating e-content.
A total of 350 participants registered for the program attended the webinar.