COVID-19 Lockdown: Jamia Milia to conduct online development programme for faculty members

The Jamia Milia Islamia today announced that it will organize the JMI-Online Faculty Development program for teachers, to equip them with online teaching tools during this 21-days lockdown period.

Najma Akhtar, Vice-Chancellor, JMI, in a letter, has asked faculty members to organize seven sessions of JMI-Online Faculty Development (JMI-OFDP) for all faculty members of the University.

To understand the best practices that should be followed during the online teaching-learning process and preparing a large number of faculty members of the university for it, we have decided to organize JMI-OFDP. This will benefit all the faculty members of the University to understand the e-learning method, the letter stated.

With complete lockdown due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the colleges and universities around the country are compelled to discontinue face-to-face teaching-learning methods and opt for virtual classes. Under such circumstances, Jamia university may also have to think, evolve, and facilitate alternative ways of engaging with students through online teaching-learning, she said.

Such an engagement is mandatory to avoid any academic loss of the students and also for their social and emotional well-being. A large number of teachers are already connecting with the students in a bid to keep them engaged with their studies, she stated in the letter.

Teachers are opting for various online platforms to teach students during this lockdown period. Some of them are using WhatsApp group, broadcast, Instagram and other social media platforms for lectures and delivering the online content. Many of them are also sending links to the students of the online tutorials through videos, lectures, slides identified and selected from a wide variety of open-source resources, learning portals, YouTube, etc, through an e-mail, she added.

At the institutional level, Jamia Millia Islamia has activated online learning facilitation tools through Google Suite and it is now possible that faculty members can open accounts on Google Hangouts, Google Meets and Google Classroom, the letter said.

On March 13, the university had suspended all the classes in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.

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