- Title of the Practice
Holistic Modelling of Education through Domain Interface and Extension Activities
2. Objectives of the Practice (100)
- To create a new model of education suitable for the holistic development of the students.
- To ensure the all-round development of the students by providing opportunities to partake in manifold activities
- To develop an inquisitive attitude among students to promote research and innovation.
- To provide an environment to train students from a very basic stage to the advancement of a specific domain of their interest.
- To make innovative and creative market-ready projects for the benefit of society
- To acquaint students with societal issues and prepare them to be responsible members of the society
- To prepare students to lead a successful life as professionals with ethics, integrity, and responsibilities.
3. The Context (150)
The recent educational model is outcome-based based hence form the basis of a quality educational system. The OBE framework recommended by NAAC and NBA guides students’ acquisition of 12 graduate attributes after graduating from any organization These specified graduate attributes lead to holistic development in students. Basically, these attributes are inclusive abilities that must be possessed by any graduate after completing an undergraduate degree program. They form the Programme Outcome (POs) to judge the knowledge, skills and abilities of graduates regardless of their field of study in correspondence with the course outcomes (COs) – individual learning experience. Courses are the primary units of the specific programme. The PO attainment is calculated in relevance to the attainment level of the courses offered under any specific programme. The overall attainment of each PO is computed as follows: Direct Assessment Course CO ( 80%) and indirect assessment (20%). The performance of the students in the examinations during the semester in each course is used to compute the level of attainments of the Cos. Conceptual knowledge is easily attained by academic subjects but real-time challenges require high critical thinking. To develop high-level cognitive abilities the institution has created the concept of Domain Interface by constituting two domains from each department. These domains are working to introduce new technology through creating unique industry-level research-based problems provided with the latest solutions to acquaint students with fresh knowledge. The entire practice is branded as “Prayas” Apart from this the institution lays emphasis on extension activities that is the basis of growing individuals into personalities by inculcating skills and values in them which corresponds some of the graduate attributes which cannot be attained through scholastic activities.
4.The Practice (400)
At SLRTCE, all departments have their technical domains. Most of the domains are working independently to strengthen the department by adding latest information through conducting a large number of activities. There are six departments in the college and thirteen interdisciplinary domains at institute level. Each department has ownership of two domains whereas one domain is from the department of humanities and applied science. A specific domain team consists of one domain incharge from the department having ownership of the domain and a group of 5-6 faculties as domain experts from other departments. The first task of the domain team is to orient students to take part in different activities conducted by these domains The domain team also conducts one in-house internship (Task/project based training) to train interested students in a particular domain. After completion of training, students submit projects along with reports which are later evaluated by the domain through the project competition organized at institute level. Under ‘Prayas’ initiative everyone has the freedom to arrange or conduct any technical activity. For this, The proposal is sent to the domain in-charge under the title of domain interface . The domain incharge has to sign and approve the activity with remarks. As a part of domain interface, domain in-charge needs to study activity proposals in detail, check how the domain team can contribute to strengthen the activity and decide the desired outcome of the activity. Domain In-charge should mobilize staff and students for the successful completion of the event. These technical domains aim to create technophile personalities with all round traits that further spur through exploring and empowering extension activities by the bodies working at SLRTCE like NSS, UBA, DLLE. A good number of opportunities are provided to the students to play active roles in different activities. A large number of events are conducted by these committees at the institution for the benefits of students .For example, on successful completion of NSS activities hours , volunteers get a grace of 10 marks in end semester exam from university., students’ attendance is recompensed.The records of activities is maintained in terms of brief report, action photos and students attendance. Further highlights are updated on the Institute website from time to time. The entire process is to raise the level of students.Their achievements and contributions are recorded in the student diary. The institution has initiated the concept of Student Diary to acknowledge the achievements of students in escalating extension activities. The credits are assigned for in-house internship and other activities conducted by different committees. Student Diary is a student’s portfolio for non scholasticactivities . It displays individual capabilities and potential of the student. Besides, it add worth to individual’s profile
5. Evidences of Success (200)
Under ‘Prayas’ initiative students are more interested to take part in technical activities conducted by different domains. They amplify their practical knowledge through task based or project based internships . As the credits are assigned for the internship, we have more enrollments in each domain. They also have the opportunities to interact with other domains to upgrade their knowledge. Domain interfaces help domain coordinators to delve deep into the topic or the theme they take for the activity. The subject should be quite apt according to the needs of the students . Both faculties and students have come up with the positive spirit to elevate Prayas. Every week they find some unique real life technical problems and try to find out the solutions of these problems. This helps create an inquisitive mindset of students and they are motivated towards research. Similarly, more students’ participation is witnessed in extension activities by NSS, UBA, & DLLE. These committees help provide a lot of exposure to the students for their holistic development. Participation in events has increased. Team work, coordination and leadership help students create a positive and growing work culture. Number of events under NSS has increased with more participation. After getting involved in different activities students have become more sensible towards their duties and responsibilities
6. Problems Encountered and Resources Required (150) The college hours prevent many students from partaking in different domain activities. some of the students if they take part in technical activities they won’t get time to participate in extension activities. Since both serve different motives. So, students decide their priorities. Motivation is a little difficult in this regard. For internship, there is an additional task of project writing for students and evaluation task for the faculties. Further record making for faculties is also an overburden because of the time constraint. Holistic development requires exposure in both scholastic and non-scholastic activities but it is very difficult to maintain balance between these two. Sometimes participation is a little lopsided. The next problem is to complete activity hours since credits are assigned to the activities on the condition of specific hours. It becomes difficult for students to accomplish the activities. For NSS, and DLLE only a selected number of students can participate. So many students are not able to get exposure.