20 January 2016 11:05:37 IST

IIM-B to conduct faculty development programme on February 13

Primary objective is to equip faculty with requisite skills and resources

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore announces a one-day faculty development programme on ‘blended learning’ using Massive Open Online Courses(MOOCs). The programme is targeted at the faculty at management schools in India. IIMB faculty will guide participants on using IIMB’s online courses to enrich classroom learning.

The programme will be conducted at IIMB on Saturday, February 13 from 9 am to 4 pm. It will include orientation sessions on MOOCs as well as three parallel tracks on using MOOCs in a blended format. The MOOCs in focus in these sessions are: International Business Environment & Global Strategy by Dr. Sushil Vachani, Innovation & IT Management by Dr Rahul De and Introduction to People Management by Dr. PD Jose.

IIMB faculty, who have pioneered MOOCs, will interact with participants and conduct the various sessions.

The primary objective of this workshop is to equip faculty from management institutions with requisite skills and resources to use MOOCs in a blended format in their classroom. For more details on the programme, students can log in to the website, https://iimbdigitallearning.wordpress.com/ send an e-mail to digital.learning@iimb.ernet.in or call: 080 2699 3578.