SRI RAMAKRISHNA COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE FOR … · + years in the area of educational ERP and products and having experience of working Pan India. Experience of customer acquisition

NAAC Sponsored Two day National Seminar on “The Promise of ICT Usage for Quality Improvement in Higher Studies” during

07th & 8th December, 2017.

SRI RAMAKRISHNA

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE FOR WOMEN

INTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE CELL

THE PROMISE OF ICT USAGE FOR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN

HIGHER EDUCATION

7th

& 8th

December, 2017



ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The Internal Quality Assurance Cell of Sri Ramakrishna College of Arts and

Science for Women expresses heartfelt gratitude to NAAC for sponsoring the two

day National Seminar on the topic “ The Promise of ICT Usage for Quality

Improvement in Higher Education. “

IQAC is greatly indebted to the Management of Sri Ramakrishna College of Arts

and Science for Women for the support rendered for conducting this Seminar.

IQAC expresses sincere thanks to Dr.Ebenezer Jeyakumar, Director(Academics) ,

SNR Sons Charitable Trust, Coimbatore for his valuable guidance .

IQAC expresses sincere thanks to Dr.K.Chitra, Principal, Sri Ramakrishna College

of Arts and Science for Women for the steady support and suggestions which has

guided a lot to conduct this Seminar. IQAC is equally thankful to Mr.M.

Sivakumar ,CEO,ICT Academy, for the valuable address during the inaugural

session of the seminar. IQAC is extremely thankful to all the resource persons of

various sessions who had accepted our invitation and contributed immensely to

make this seminar meaningful and productive.

Special thanks to all the faculty members of Sri Ramakrishna College of Arts and

Science for Women for their help extended towards conducting this seminar.

IQAC thanks all the participants for their active participation and co-operation.

Dr.V.KrishnaPriya

IQAC Co-Ordinator



Program Schedule



SRI RAMAKRISHNA

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE FOR WOMEN

INTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE CELL

THE PROMISE OF ICT USAGE FOR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN

HIGHER EDUCATION

7th

& 8th

December, 2017



Steering Committee



Dr. A.Ebenezer Jeyakumar

Director (Academics)

Nominee of the State Government and the Director of Technical Education, in the Single

Window System of Admissions, conducted by the Anna University 1997, when it was introduced

for the first time in this state of Tamil Nadu – Responsible for the allocation of seats in the

respective communities as per the sanctioned intake in each institution, considering the

minority/non-minority status of the institutions and conduct of the admission process.

Retired as Principal, Government College of Engineering, Salem:

Various professionnal Society Chapters

Syndicate Member of Anna University, nominated by His Excellency the Governor of

Tamil Nadu, for a period of three years from 2nd June 2002 to May 2005- when unitary

type of Anna University became affiliated type.

Syndicate Member of Anna University Coimbatore, nominated by His Excellency the

Governor of Tamil Nadu, for a period of three years from June 2007 to 2010 - when

Anna University at Coimbatore got established in 2007.

Convenor of the Co–Ordination Committee constituted by the Director of Technical

Education, Government of Tamilnadu, for the Sixth Joint Review Mission of Technical

Education Quality Improvement Programme(TEQIP), held at Chennai, January 2007.

Co-ordinator of Single Window System of Admissions to all Polytechnic Colleges in

Tamil Nadu – fully responsible for having introduced and conducted for the first time in

1998, for all the Government, Government Aided and Self financing Polytechnic

colleges.

Co-ordinator for the Single Window System of Admissions to all Engineering Colleges in

the State in the Distributed Counselling arranged for the first time in Coimbatore in July-

August 2002.

Secretary, Tamil Nadu MBA/MCA and ME Admissions- 2005 - Totally responsible for

the Admission of the above courses through counselling organized at Government

College of Technology, Coimbatore in July, August 2005 for all the Government,

Government Aided and Self financing Engineering Colleges and Arts and Science

Colleges in the State of Tamil Nadu.

Member of the Permanent Committee of Hon’ble Mr. Justice A. Raman for the Fixation

of Fee Structure in Private Professional Educational Institutions in Tamil Nadu.



PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

I am delighted to welcome to the portals of Sri Ramakrishna College of Arts and

Science for Women, one of the finest Institution of higher education for Women.

With more than 26 years of rich academic heritage, our college has enriched the

lives of thousands of women by enabling them to realize their innate potential.

According to GER, higher education is 41% in Tamil Nadu and 21% all over

India, but employment is still a huge challenge. Since the teenagers are changing

to screenagers, the teachers should adapt themselves as digital immigrants. They

play a major role in facilitating and engaging the students of this digital era by the

usage of ICT tools and improving the employability skills among students. The

recent innovations in Technology have created numerous platforms to utilize

various ICT tools in enhancing teaching learning process. As an academician one

should be aware of technology revolving around current educational system.

In the light of all the above, this seminar will focus on ICT tools for improving the

quality of teaching learning process. At the outset, I congratulate the Internal

Quality Assurance Cell for organizing NAAC Sponsored Two day National

Seminar on “The Promise of ICT Usage for Quality Improvement in Higher

Studies”

Dr.K.Chitra

Principal



Dr. V.KrishnaPriya is presently, the Head of the Department of Computer Science at Sri

Ramakrishna College of Arts and Science for Women at Coimbatore. She received her Ph.D. in

Computer Science from Mother Theresa University, Kodaikanal. She holds her Masters in

Computer Science (MCA) and Bachelors in Chemistry from Bharathiar University.

She has published papers in 10 International journals and 15 National Journals and has more than

15 presentations in International and National conferences to her credit. She is presently guiding

1 Ph.D., Scholar. She had Guided 15 M.Phil scholars till date. Her research areas include

Software Engineering. Has 20 years of academic experience and has held various positions at Sri

Ramakrishna College of Arts and Science for Women.

She is a member of the Academic council, Executive council and IQAC of the Institution. She is

a certified Internal Quality Auditor and acted as AMR for the ISO Certification process of the

Institution earlier. She is an External member of the Board of Studies in various other

Institutions. She is a member of ICT Academy. She is also a reviewer for many national and

International Journals. She has organized more than 50 programs for the students and faculty till

date.

Dr.V.Krishnapriya

Head of the Department



Resource Persons



Day 1

Session : 1

Topic : Technology for Enhancing the Quality of Higher Education:

Opportunities and Challenges Ahead

Resource Person : Mr. M Sivakumar CEO , ICT Academy

As a member of the founding team of ICT Academy, he has played a principal role

in shaping the educational ecosystem of the state towards building and facilitating

tech-enabled manpower and faculty through various skill development initiatives.

ICT Academy, as a business model has grown to be endorsed by NITI Aayog, the

policy making body to be replicated in the other states of India. Under him, ICT

Academy has pioneered in the area of Industry-Institute Interaction by holding

various seminars and summits attended by eminent personalities from the

Industry, Government and Institute.

He has more than 35 years of experience in setting up, promoting and managing

companies which includes strategic planning, finance resource management,

product development and marketing channel management. He has an extensive

experience in the fields of Technology enabled education, training the industry,

implementation of educational initiatives focused on technology management,

instructional design and content quality management.

Mr. Sivakumar is also a member of the governing council of many educational

institutions. He is a speaker at many conferences and forums like the CII,

NASSCOM, ASSOCHAM, FICCI etc. He has been a panel member of CII-South

Chapter since 2011 in various sectors like Skill Development, Education and

IT/ITeS

Prior to joining ICT Academy, he was the President of a leading Indian

technology enabled education company, responsible for its strategic development

throughout the country.

Mr. Sivakumar is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of

India. He holds a bachelors degree from RKM Vivekananda College, Chennai.



Session : 2

Topic : Engaging the Digital Natives: Technology for Teaching

Learning Process

Resource Person : Dr.Vivek

Dr.Vivek has a teaching experience of more than 17 years and industry

experience of 2 years. He has completed his Ph.D. in Supply Chain

Management. He has specialized in Quantitative Methods, Research Methods,

Business Statistics, Supply Chain Management and Operations Management.

He has published numerous papers in peer reviewed journals and has

presented papers in India and abroad. His other interests include Training

Within Industry, Activity Based Learning, low cost organic agriculture,

sustainable development, micro infrastructure development, rural economies

and naturopathy.

For Presentation details follow this Link

http://www.srcw.ac.in/pdf/vivek.pdf

http://www.srcw.ac.in/pdf/vivek.pdf



Session : 3

Topic : ICT for Assessment & Evaluation of Learning Outcome

Resource Person : Mr. Krishna Kumar and Mr. M. V. Kalidas

Krishna Kumar, now working as Vice president for Master soft erp solutions,

having 22+ years starting with teaching position in NIIT for Unix & C, then

experience in administration before taking up Marketing & sales for the last 18

+ years in the area of educational ERP and products and having experience of

working Pan India. Experience of customer acquisition and cross functional

areas of client site implementations etc and has worked with various

organizations as part of his career.

He is a commerce graduate and had honors in systems management from NIIT.


http://www.srcw.ac.in/pdf/KK.pdf

M. V. Kalidas has over 32 years of experience leading Senior Management

teams spanning IT Products and Services in organizations like Wipro, HCL

Technologies, Microsoft , E-Dictate and Inpods.He has led business growth and

transformation initiatives involving Customer Acquisition, Cost Improvements,

M&A Transition and People Process across product lines and geographies.

Experience in scaling a start-up U.S. Healthcare KPO from scratch to 600+ by

successfully implementing Home Based Employee model. Cross-functional

background encompassing Sales, Strategy, Innovation, Quality, HR and Service

Delivery.

Kalidas is a 1985 graduate from National Institute of Technology, Srinagar.

He is a certified Black Belt in Six Sigma.

Currently working as Vice President in Inpods. Inpods Inc. is a company based

out of Bellevue in the US with its India office in Pune. Inpods has built a cloud

based social learning management platform to provide student-centered,

outcome -based learning experience. Inpods is currently used by several reputed

Higher Ed institutions to help accomplish their Teaching and Learning

Excellence goals. Inpods powered solutions are used by students across the

globe to accelerate their learning and to prepare for the competitive entrance

exams.

http://www.srcw.ac.in/pdf/KK.pdf



Session : 3

Topic : Augmenting Research Skills using ICT- A Road Map

Resource Person : Dr R. V. Subramanian

Dr R. V. Subramanian is a master’s degree holder in Defence and

Strategic Studies from University of Madras. He has a research degree in

Documentation and Information Science from Documentation Research

and Training Centre, Bangalore under Indian Statistical Institute. He is the

gold medallist in this research degree. He specialised in Management

Information Systems. His important earlier research works are Command

Control Communications and Intelligence Systems; and Vocabulary

Control Device for Robotics. His Ph. D. is on Grand Strategic formulation

for India with special reference to Information and Knowledge

Management.

Dr Subramanian heads the library and information centre at Defence

Services Staff College, Wellington. With his programming skills he totally

automated the information system along with the bar-coding and e-library

facilities. He is recognised as a consultant information officer for the

Category A establishment defence libraries. He also developed a library

package for the NDA Naval library. He conducts faculty development

programme for the management faculty at DSSC. He had presented many

papers in the disciplines of Strategic Studies, Library Science and

Management Sciences. He is a research guide and information consultant

in the area of Defence and Strategic Studies.

For his meritorious service Dr Subramanian has been awarded with Army

Training Command Commendation Card in 2015. He received

Commandant’s Gold Coin for excellence in the award inaugural year of

2016 itself. He is the only civilian officer to receive both these awards at

DSS


http://www.srcw.ac.in/pdf/rvs.pdf

http://www.srcw.ac.in/pdf/rvs.pdf



Day 2

Session : 1

Topic : ICT for Enhancing Placement Skills

Resource Person : Mr. Pandhalaraja

Pandhalaraja is an Electrical and Electronics Engineer from Info Institute of

Engineering, Coimbatore. Since graduating in 2011, he has been working with

FACE. Starting as a Training Associate, he has trained more than 3,00,000 students

in the areas of Quantitative and Logical Aptitude in various campuses across India.

Growing in this vertical, he performed the roles of Training Quality Manager and

Engagement Manager in many of FACE's client projects, before being designated as

the Centre Manager of FACE - Coimbatore branch in March 2014. In this position,

he was responsible for induction, training, and supervision of approximately 70

trainers based at FACE - Coimbatore.

Since December 2014, he has been managing the content development efforts at

FACE's R&D Division. In this role he has developed content for FACE training

programs (handbooks, test papers and online material). He has also overseen a large

team of about 20 interns from premier institutions like the IITs & NITs in the

research efforts towards content development for a range of online courses. Apart

from the focus on the content itself, he has also evolved the use of audio-visual

techniques in enhancing content presentation (and audience reception). Through this,

he has supported content development efforts of some of the online courses that

FACE has piloted on the online EDTechplatform, www.chalkstreet.com.

Pandhalaraja is heading the Business of Bank Naukri, which is now one of the

India's leading Bank and Government exams coaching institute, both online and

offline


http://www.srcw.ac.in/pdf/pr.pdf

http://www.chalkstreet.com/

http://www.srcw.ac.in/pdf/pr.pdf



Session : 2

Topic : Leveraging Technology for Alumni Interaction

Resource Person : Mr. N. A. Thirumalai Raja

Name: . N. A. Thirumalai Raja

Role: Chief Executive Officer

Company: Webykart Inc

Mobile: +91 70 9211 7211

Email: [email protected]

About company: Webykart is a one stop solution for all your web and mobile

application needs. We are the young lanterns who will be the source for the

emerging trends in web and mobile technology. Our objective is to build a

stunning applications and designs that boost customer business.

Product: Alumbook – Alumni management software

About Alumbook: Alumbook is an cloud based Alumni Management software

for connecting the College/ School/ Organization’s alumni network. The

application comprises development of the custom website and Mobile apps with

the Institution or community brand values.


http://www.srcw.ac.in/pdf/tr.pdf

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.srcw.ac.in/pdf/tr.pdf



Session : 3

Topic : Teaching as Change Leaders

Resource Person : Prof. Balasubramanian

Prof. Balasubramanian is currently the Director of GRG Centre for Advanced Studies,

Coimbatore. He is a Graduate in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Madras

and holds PG Diploma in Management (MBA) from IIM Calcutta. He is a certified

Accredited Management Teacher from AIMA and a qualified administrator and interpreter

of the MBTI.

He has 30 years of experience in industry – private and public sector,including

.Larsen & Toubro, BHEL, Parry & Company, and Wartsila Corporation – in India

and abroad.

Prof. Balasubramanian joined the academia in 1999/2000. He is actively involved in

management education, training, and consulting. Before joining GRG in February

2007, he was a Professor at T.A. Pai Management Institute, Manipal (TAPMI). His

focus in management education is in the design and development of curriculum, and

faculty development. He is passionate on the effective use of technology in

management education.

His academic interests are in the fields of Business Leadership and Strategy. He has

conducted successful and highly rated training programmes for a large number of

organizations. He is a mentor to senior executives in some organisations, including

Titan Industries, Bangalore.

He is the author of a widely acclaimed book titled “The Art of Business Leadership:

Indian Experiences” (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2007).

He serves as a Member of the Council of Management of All India Management

Association (AIMA);Education Panel of CII Southern Region; Education Panel of

CII Coimbatore Zone; and, the Managing Committee of Coimbatore Management

Association.


http://www.srcw.ac.in/pdf/sb.pdf

http://www.srcw.ac.in/pdf/sb.pdf



Session : 4

Topic : Sharing of Best Practices

This session was about sharing the best practices in our college.

Dr.V.G.Rani , Associate Professor ,Department of Computer Science shared on How

Flipped Learning can engage digital natives and how EDMODO – online classroom is

practiced in our institution.

Dr.C.Yamini , Associate Professor ,Department of Computer Science shared about the

ERP Solutions. The College Management System helps the administrators and the

academician to overcome their pain points in the internal process. The implementation

accomplished made our College Ready for any Digital Transformation Journey.

Dr.V.Umarani , Associate Professor ,Department of Computer Science shared about

the deployment of Google Apps in our college and how it is helping us in

augmenting our teaching skills and streamlining the process of various processes

that involve data collection from staff and students as well.

Dr.B.Shanmugapriya and Mrs.S.Srividhya, Assistant Professors, Department of

Computer Science shared about the success journey of spoken tutorial in our college

and the road map of the implementation of the spoken Tutorial – IIT Bombay.



Outcome of the Seminar

Through the promise of ICT usage for Quality Improvement in Higher Education

Seminar, the participants will be able to:

Acquire the ICT skills in Teaching Learning Process.

Motivate the faculty to implement modern tools and techniques.

Gain a concrete idea about the usage of ICT in imparting the education to Gen Z

students.

Redesign the content delivery in more innovative ways.

Gain the knowledge regarding the implementation of the tools and technology

right from admission to alumni interaction.

Implement new teaching learning methodology.

Follow up Actions

Based on the feedback collected from the seminar participants and the resource

persons, the Institution proposes the following:

To provide more hands-on training and research oriented ICT sessions.

To conduct focused sessions on technology for engaging the Digital Natives

To conduct sessions that enhances the placement skills

To implement College Administrative System.

To develop a procedure for linking continuous evaluation and assessment

system to the outcome.

To orient faculty on leadership sessions



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