The Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) at IIMB hosted the 7th and the 8th editions of the annual five-day Doctoral Consortium on Teaching. The 7th edition took place from January 15 to 19, while the 8th edition took place from February 5 to 9.
In all, 61 PhD scholars, who are in the concluding stage of their doctoral study and will soon begin their academic journey, participated in the programme. Apart from IIMB’s doctoral candidates, the programme also saw the participation of scholars from IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Indore, IIM Kashipur, IIM Kozhikode, IIM Lucknow, IIM Mumbai, IIM Ranchi, IIM Udaipur, EDII Ahmedabad, XLRI Jamshedpur, ISB Hyderabad, IIT Delhi, and IIT Kanpur.
On the opening day of the 7th edition, Prof. Rishikesha T Krishnan, Director of IIMB, delivered the welcome speech, encouraging the participants to leverage the teaching workshop to hone their skills to become successful academics in the near future. Prof. Sushanta Mishra, Chairperson of the Centre for Teaching and Learning and faculty in the OB&HRM area at IIMB, highlighted the importance of teaching and shared the session details with the participants.
On the opening day of the 8th edition, Prof. Rahul De’, Dean (Programmes) of IIMB, delivered the welcome speech, emphasizing the importance of teaching in management institutions. Prof. Sushanta Mishra shared the session details with the participants while highlighting the criticality of pedagogical innovations.
The programme included carefully chosen sessions and panel discussions covering multiple facets of teaching and learning.
The topics covered in the programme are provided below:
-
Prof. Sourav Mukherji, faculty in the OB&HRM area at IIMB, conducted sessions on case-based teaching. He threw light on the ways to tackle business dilemmas in a class while using the case teaching method.
-
Dr. Arun Pereira, MIT-Sloan International Faculty Fellow, and Emeritus Faculty at the Chaifetz School of Business, Saint Louis University, USA, conducted sessions on the essential drivers of learning.
-
Prof. Jitamitra Desai, faculty in the Decision Sciences area at IIMB, delivered sessions on teaching quantitative subjects, where he advocated using non-traditional modes of engagement in the classroom to make the learning process interesting.
-
Prof. P D Jose, faculty in the Strategy area at IIMB, talked about the role of technology in enabling classroom teaching, stressing how it can be optimized to suit different groups of learners.
-
Prof. Varun Jindal, faculty in the Finance & Accounting area at IIMB, demonstrated how to teach using the lecture-based methodology.
-
Prof. S Raghunath, retired faculty from the Corporate Strategy and Policy area at IIMB, took interactive sessions on how to design and deliver programmes for business executives and leaders.
-
Prof. Deepti Ganapathy, faculty in the Management Communication area at IIMB, collaborated with the Digital Learning team of IIMB to deliver a session on designing and delivering MOOCs.
-
Prof. Mrityunjay Tiwary, faculty in the Finance & Accounting area at IIM Lucknow, conducted an engaging session on experiential learning through simulations and gamification where participants got the opportunity to play a board game by applying various management concepts.
-
Prof. Ananth Krishnamurthy, Chairperson of the Doctoral Programme and faculty in the Decision Sciences area at IIMB, discussed the key aspects of classroom management.
The panel discussions were on three relevant topics—Course Design, Preparing for the Academic Job Talk, and Entry to Academia. The panellists were the faculty members of IIMB.
The panel members for ‘Course Design’ comprised Prof. Srivardhini K Jha from the Entrepreneurship area, Prof. Ashis Mishra from the Marketing area, and Prof. Venkatesh Panchapagesan from the Finance & Accounting area. Prof. Gaurav Jakhu from the Economics area joined as a panellist for this discussion in the 8th edition. The discussion focused on the challenges faced by faculty members while designing elective courses and the ways to address and resolve those challenges. The panel discussion was moderated by Prof. Arpita Pandey, faculty in the Marketing area, in the 7th edition and by Prof. Sushanta Mishra in the 8th edition.
The members of the panel on ‘Preparing for the Academic Job Talk’ comprised Prof. Rejie George from the Strategy area, Prof. Amar Sapra from the Production & Operations Management area, and Prof. Sushanta Mishra from the OB&HRM area. Prof. Mukta Kulkarni, faculty in the OB&HRM area, joined as a panellist for this discussion in the 8th edition. The panellists shared their valuable insights from their experiences in reviewing profiles of and interviewing new faculty members. They advised the participants to have a deep understanding of the research topic in the recruitment seminar, while also sharing several such relevant inputs. Prof. Ananth Krishnamurthy from the Decision Sciences area moderated this discussion.
The members of the Panel on ‘Entry to Academia’ comprised Prof. Reshma Chirayil from the Decision Sciences area, Prof. Aditya Srinivas from the Economics area, Prof. Shankhadeep Banerjee from the Information Systems area, and Prof. Ramya K Murthy from the Entrepreneurship area. Prof. Anand Deo, faculty in the Decision Sciences area, joined as a panellist for the same discussion in the 8th edition. Prof. Sushanta Mishra moderated this discussion.
Another important component of the consortium was the Teaching Practicum, which provided the participants with an opportunity to take a class on their chosen topic, discover their unique teaching style in the process, and get constructive feedback on how they can improvise and deliver sessions more effectively as teaching faculty. Prof. Arun Pereira, Prof. Ananth Krishnamurthy, and Prof. Sushanta Mishra conducted the practicum.
The consortium concluded with a valediction ceremony, along with a feedback session from the participants and a short discussion led by Prof. Sushanta Mishra on a few crucial pointers to better equip the participants for an academic career.
Click here for photo gallery