Given
below is a list of Best Practices identified by the participants of the
Workshop on Best Practices in Higher
Education, organized by the Loyola College of Social Sciences, Trivandrum ,
South India, on 18th and 19th July 2009
- Online evaluation
- Online invigilation
- Community service Projects
- Student Coalition for
Hunger
- Decentralized web
management
- Remedial coaching
programmes
- Issue of Health Cards to
students
- Using mobile phones for
learning
- One minute tests and
surprise tests
- Computerization of each
department
- Inter-departmental sharing
of resources
- Cluster of institutions
sharing resources
- College faculty visiting
student residence
- Setting up institutional
knowledge repository
- Spiritual development
programme for students
- Setting up of a Placement
Cell in each department
- Making use of technology
for instructional purpose
- Consortium of colleges
that permits inter-library loan
- Dummy patent registration
at each college/ university
- Making use of a content
management system like MOODLE
- Making available data
bases of Case Studies to benefit others
- Getting students to review
new books that arrive in the library
- Giving coaching in Spoken
English in institutions in rural areas
- Setting up international
collaboration for teaching and learning
- Students creation of a
Virtual Book shelf .. a kind of resource tagging.
- Starting of adhoc diploma
and certificate courses for students and the community.
- Taking feedback of
students every day on every topic taught
through the use of online support and special software.
- As a participatory
democratic approach have student assess the performance of teachers .
- Introduction of a Best Reader
award based on the critical commentary of
a book read and the number of books read by the student.
- Conducting Academic Audit to assess performance of
the teachers and the programmes each year.
- Regularly collecting
feedback from the stakeholders which include parents, alumni, students and
the community for refining the effectiveness of the syllabus.
- For any programme follow
PIME ,ie; Planning , Implementation, Monitoring and finally Evaluation.
- Maintaining of a Teacher’s
Diary and a Students Diary which help the Principal to cross check the
teacher’s claim of teaching.
- Earn while you learn
programme for PG students… Teaching in Certificate Course Programmes
offered by the college.
- Some areas for innovative
practices include: Changing criteria for teacher selection, student
selection, quality of research, management of institutions, the nature of
society and institution interaction.
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