331 join online faculty devpt programme

PATNA: Altogether 331 teachers of different universities across the country joined the online faculty development programme (FDP) on ‘Late X’ and ‘X fig’ jointly organised by

A N College

, Patna and Remote Learning Through IIT Bombay – Spoken Tutorial.

While Late X is used by academician in preparation of articles and research papers, X fig, a vector graphic editor, is used in schematic drawing and figures.

Inaugurating the seven-day programme, A N College principal S P Shahi called upon the teachers to learn and share new technologies designed and dedicated for development of the country in all fields.

“The ongoing lockdown in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic reminded us to adopt newer technologies and methods of remote teaching and now it is a big opportunity for university and college teachers passing their time at homes to update and upgrade themselves on preparation of articles for online teaching,” he said.

Of the total participants, 131 are from Delhi, Himachal, Bengaluru and other places. Zahira Shaikh of Spoken Tutorial, IIT Bombay is the training coordinator of FDP.

The resource person, Mansaf Alam, teacher of computer science, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi said while the prevailing pandemic has disarrayed higher education, such FDP would help lessening the lockdown impact on it.