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http://172.22.28.37:8080/xmlui/handle/1/214| Title: | ACADEMIC AUDIT - A TOOL FOR ENHANCING TEACHING-LEARNING EFFECTIVENESS |
| Authors: | Kulkarni S.S., Telsang M.T. |
| Keywords: | ACADEMIC AUDIT TEACHING-LEARNING EFFECTIVENESS |
| Issue Date: | Apr-2011 |
| Publisher: | The Journal of Engineering Education |
| Abstract: | increasing demand of employers, coupled with the attitude of lifelong learning in students. This paper aims to discuss the case study of an engineering college situated in rural Maharashtra, which has made a mark at the National Level through the implementation of innovative and best practices like Academic Audit and Faculty Competency Mapping. The process of Academic Audit captures the classroom dynamics in an environment of ease and comfort. Class room dynamics here refers to delivery effectiveness, learning experience of students with different learning preferences and styles, factors that hinder the effectiveness of both teaching and learning. |
| Description: | Institutions of higher education should be effective learn ing organizations-with institutional cultures that value and support student learning. It requires the integration of planning, assessment, and improvement. Higher education often reflects the growing impatience with the quality of education by decrying the lack of resources to underwrite change. Academic Audit is an initiative focused onimproving academic quality without spending more money or abandoning other priorities. It is a self-sustaining cycle of academic quality improvement that is low cost, highly collegial, faculty driven, and uses structured conversation within the department and between department members and auditors to examine the possibilities for improvement and achieve commitments for change. It involves a self study, peer review-site visit by train~d auditors, and a report emphasizing agreed-upon areas for improvement and acknowledgement of successes. Academic quality work embedded in the Academic Audit systematizes an institution's approach to quality by focusing on a body of content that must be considered before an analysis can be accepted or complete. This body of content is the focal areas of quality work: 1) learning objectives, 2) curriculum, 3) teaching and learning methods, 4) student leaming assessments, and 5) quality assurance. |
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| Appears in Collections: | Faculty Publication |
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