Priorities:Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology Student Priorities
Contents
Overview
University Innovation Fellows Spring 2017 Pitch Video
Strategy #1: PEER TEACHING CLASSES
This idea is all about creating a beautiful platform for the students to enlighten and bring out the innovative thinking ability in them. I believe, Peer Teaching is the best way to make this happen. We already have Peer Teaching classes going on in our daily classroom schedule. But the activities that are supposed to happen are not happening as expected. This might be due to the fact that students have an unnerving feel as they think they were forced to participate in the activities which might seem boring to them. So, changing the way these activities happen inside a classroom that students might be interested in, can help them grab opportunity to work in a team and learn something useful.
How PT can be interesting:
- Replacing faculty with a senior student for Peer Teaching classes
- Students in a class divides into teams of 15-20 each, with a senior student mentoring his team.
- Activities to be planned according to the interest shown by the students.
- Having students to talk in the team bring out their ideas.
- Teams participate in the activities to have a friendly competition.
- Activities vary session to session.
Possible issues:
- As Seniors are assigned to mentor Freshman, all might not mingle in the team.
- Seniors might not show up after few sessions due to their own reasons.
- Students might not want to participate in a team all of a sudden.
Hope of solving these issues
Faculty member mentors seniors, helping them solve the issues with the Freshman. Seniors to be awarded credits for what they do in Peer Teaching sessions. Feedback from the members of a team lead by that senior, may fetch him/her credits. This puts senior students in their path as they help peers to participate in the activities.
I&E ecosystem via PT
Student Collaboration
In these sessions, students meet their fellows more personally. They talk to each other. As I believe this is the initial stage of Innovative mindset, such ecosystem develops across the campus. This helps students to know what resources they basically have on the campus.
Grabbing every opportunity
Participating in a team activity develops thought process that helps a student to know what interests him/her. Thus, they come to know what all opportunities they have at the moment. With the help of their team head or the senior, they can connect with the correct way to grab an opportunity.
Connecting to campus resources
By collaborating with seniors and thereby faculty, students get to know what all resources their campus offer them. Knowing the presence of resources, students think of using them for their own growth leading to innovative ideas. Entrepreneurship and innovation develops across the campus.
Strategy #2 ONLINE COMMUNICATION PLATFORM
There is great need of a common social platform for the students and faculty to stay connected. This website is always accessible to the students and faculty of the college. This platform can be used for promoting start-ups, encouraging Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the campus. This definitely is useful in developing student faculty relationship with regular interaction.
Here all new developments and resources of the college are regularly posted and updated so that every student of the campus have a complete and clear idea of resources available in the college. Students of different disciplines can collaborate and work together further on their interests and projects through this platform. Their work can be reviewed by faculty and at the same time can be funded through Entrepreneurship Development cell of the college based on its accuracy and reliability.
Updates about upcoming events, competitions and workshops can be posted here so that every student have the knowledge of happenings of the college.
Strategy #3 : INNOVATION CENTRE
An Innovation center is a body of people basically, like minded and innovative. The main aim of Innovation center is to enlighten the students towards the modern technologies and this center provides exposure to latest advancements in the technologies. It develops creative and design thinking in the students and also provides student collaboration.
Initially, students show interest in joining the IC thinking of creating real things out of their ideas. This may be possible when people come together and discuss about the same ideas they have.Innovation Center enables the people to gather and realize a common idea. The center creates interest in the students to join and meet other people in the community with same idea, so that they can learn and earn at the same time.
Innovation center helps students to emerge as Inventors and Entrepreneurs.This center basically requires the students to work creatively and produce prototypes and also requires a room / space where, students can meet and share their ideas. Permission from higher authorities is required to establish the innovation center. Assurance should be given to faculty that, this center works for the benefits of students.
Strategy #4 Re-Designing My College Time Table
The main reason behind selecting this problem is to explore the hidden skills of the students by providing them a time to get exposed to different things like sports, clubs, TED room, I&E cell. In regular curriculum students are not having much time to get exposed to those things. So I want to re-design the time table of my college.
How our new time table is different from the regular one?
It provides students an effective Innovation space and allows them to do much more. They are allowed to do more in their site of interest. In regular curriculum, we are giving only 4-5 periods for extra curricular activities per week. But in re-designed one we are giving 2 periods a day.
Related Links
College Wiki Page:
Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology
Spring 2017 UIF:
