• TLC conducted a session of the Intensive Teaching Workshop for the newly inducted on the 13th March and 25th September.

- Prof. Rahul Nigam talked on "Important aspects of online teaching". Prof. Anasua and Prof. N L Bhanumurthy covered a session on "Online lab sessions" and Dr. Radhika discussed "aspects of Flipped Classrooms and technology based teaching". Prof. Thiruvikraman conducted a session on "Evaluation and Assessment and Dr. Anhiti Patnaik shed light on the intricacies of dealing with Plagiarism and Misconduct.  

• The TLC team conducted a workshop for the PhD and HD students on "Aspects of Online Teaching" on 12th April.
  
  
• TLC released the 2nd edition of the Video Magazine "Spark".
  
  
• Dr. Apurva Barve, Coordinator, Centre of Excellence in Science and Mathematics Education, IISER Pune delivered a webinar on "Research as a Teaching Tool: the what and the why" on 16th July.

- Do the standard college curricula give our students who graduate with Bachelors / Masters degrees in science, a real understanding of how to practice science? Do our syllabi focus too heavily on content, often at the cost of the process of science? In my talk I will discuss the need for inculcating science process skills along with content knowledge in undergraduate students. I will make a case for using research as a teaching tool for this purpose. I will propose a few characteristic features that research as a teaching tool could have, and how it may aid in developing aspects like analytical skills, critical thinking, collaboration and teamwork, etc.  

• Dr. Balaguruprasad Narayanan delivered a webinar on "Online Teaching and Learning" on 30th June. 

• • Session on designing novel assignments on 24th Sept, 2019. Faculty members from different departments made presentations on innovative practices related to assignments that they incorporate in their classrooms, followed by a question-answer session. 
    Prof. Speakers - Prof. Alivelu Manga, Prof. Aruna Malapati, Prof. Kannan Ramaswamy, Prof. Manab Chakravarty, Prof. Chandu Parimi. 
     
  • A two day interaction session was arranged with external experts during 25th - 26th july, 2019. 
     
    Prof. Arnab Bhattacharya from TIFR, Mumbai gave two talks on  25th July  -  
      
     
    1. "Making undergrad lab experiments more relevant and exciting". The speaker discussed as well as demonstrated ways of framing engaging lab experiments. 

     

     

    2. "How to give a bad talk!" -  The do's and don'ts while giving talks using slides. 

     

     

    Prof. Vasudeva Rao Aravind from Clarion University gave a talk on 26th July on  "Improving Student Learning with Teacher-Authored Intelligent Tutoring Systems" -  The talk provided a walk-through of design, development, and deployment of tutors implemented in undergraduate classrooms across different countries and cultures. Effectiveness of the tutor in producing student learning gains were alsp discussed.
     
  • "A 2-days long Intensive Teaching Workshop (ITW) for the newly inducted faculty members was conducted during 22nd - 23rd March. The first day of ITW was supervised by an external resource person, Dr. Pratima Khandelwal. Dr Khandelwal conducted 4 different sessions during which she shed light on Bloom's Taxonomy and also introduced the participants to different teaching tools like active learning. On the second day, Prof. Vasan presented the details of academic regulation to the participants. After that, Prof. Sundar interacted with the participants briefly and shared his views on Teaching and Pedagogy. Then Prof. Manoj Kannan and Prof. Tapomoy Guha Sarkar from Pilani campus administered modules focusing upon 1. Learning outcome and assessment, 2. Reflective teaching and 3. Ethical practices. At the end, Prof. Kannan Ramaswamy threw light on how to provide emotional support to students when required." 

• An exposition on Evolved Classroom Teaching - The Teaching Learning Centre constantly interacts with the faculty members across the departments seeking ways to enhance the overall teaching and learning experience in the institute. Based on this exercise, the TLC started collaborating with a few departments towards making the classroom teaching more engaging and exciting by bringing in innovation, demonstrations and technology to the classrooms. TLC organized a session on 12th Feb, when a few faculty members from 5 different departments discussed and exhibited the novel and neoteric pedagogical activities they have designed to be incorporated in their classrooms. The session was also a forum for further exchange and dissemination of ideas among the faculty members. The following ideas were discussed - 
• Department - CSIS, Instructor - Dr. Narasimha Bolloju
• Title: Engaging students in the classroom using different types of polls;
• Department - Biology, Instructor - Dr. Pragya Komal, Dr. Ruchi Jain Dey
• Title: A Demonstration to display importance of Personal Hygiene and Microorganism
• Department - Physics, Instructor - Dr. Kannan Ramaswamy, Dr. Prashant Samantray
• Title: An active demonstration of Coriolis Force. Audience can participate and feel this force!
• Department - EEE, Insructor - Dr. Radhika Sudha, Dr. Syed Ershad Ahmed
• Title: Linking Practical to Theory for better understanding - A demo class of Network theorems; Maximum Power Transfer Theorem
• Department - Chemistry, Instructor - Dr. Durba Roy
• Title: Perceiving not-so-obvious but ubiquitous quantum mechanics through demonstrations.

• The Teaching Learning Centre (TLC) organized a workshop on "Strategies to improve research writing skills" for all the research scholars on 1st Feb, 2019. Around 120 research scholars from all the departments attended the workshop. The objectives of the workshop were - 

a.  Discuss strategies which can help PhD students become more independent in planning and writing their dissertation and research papers;

b.    familiarise them with how to divide each section of a research report into much smaller writable units;

c.     discuss strategies to counter issues such as maintaining coherence, avoiding plagiarism, utilising an annotated bibliography, etc.

• TLC along with ACC organized the "Coffee with Professor" on 31st Jan. A forum for discussion between the students and faculty members. The theme of the discussion was "How to improve the classroom engagement?".
• Intense Teaching Workshop - The Teaching Learning Centre organized a two day workshop during 26th - 27th Oct for the newly inducted faculty members wherein newly inducted faculty members were introduced to the ethos and pedagogical values at BITS and familiarized with some of issues and guidelines related to Teaching and Research. Prof. Anupam Bhattacharya and Prof. A Vasan delivered talks on “Introduction to SRCD” and “Introduction to AUGSD” respectively. During this Workshop, some of the senior faculty members participated as Panel Members in Discussion Session and Situation Analysis and shared their ideas on different topics of relevance. Prof. G. Sundar also addressed the new members briefly and provided his valuable views on administering teaching responsibilities.