Innovative Teaching

• Smart pads with Google Classroom completely change the process of putting pen to paper. With a single click, they instantly digitize handwriting and diagrams  
• Video lectures, handouts, and laboratory manuals are uploaded to the online learning platform VOLP. Students join the classroom with a unique class code  
• Learning by doing is experienced through project-based and project-centric learning, which includes Course Projects, Engineering Design and Innovation (EDI) Projects, Software Development Projects, Major Projects and Internships 
• Use of short videos, animation and demonstration models to explain the concepts
• Students are engaged meaningfully through group discussions, seminars, and innovative home assignments (blog, design, case study, or survey) 
• Use of Virtual labs for effective understanding of practical concepts 
• We encourage students to enhance their skill sets through online learning platforms like Coursera, NPTEL, Udemy etc. For example, Software Engineering students undertake Agile Certification by Google on Coursera 
• Fun learning activities, such as concept-oriented role plays and group discussions, are planned in the classroom with the students’ participation.
• The Department has arranged expert sessions with international speakers and industry experts to enrich the students’ knowledge of recent technologies used in the industry.
• VOLP is a Learning Management System (LMS) developed by Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune. Faculty members prepare interactive videos (periodic pop-up quizzes embedded within the videos), lab assignments and reference materials. Students can access this material using a smartphone or web browser. It encourages self-learning and instructor-guided flipped classrooms.
• Recorded lectures of faculty of courses – Software Engineering, Database Management System, Computer Networks etc are available on YouTube. Sample links provided in the following table

Innovations in Assessment and Evaluation

• VOLP is a learning platform designed to provide a robust, secure, and integrated system for creating a personalized learning environment. Faculty members use the VOLP platform to assess students through MCQ-based tests
•  The students are given challenging statements during the practical session to solve real-time problems. Every student creates a code to represent the given statement. It enhances students’ critical thinking and coding abilities
•  IPR awareness sessions are conducted to inculcate a research attitude. As a result, students have filed copyrights on their lab work
• Continuous assessment is carried out for home assignments, group discussions, course projects, lab work, and presentations
• A faculty member panel conducts mid-semester examination of internship, major projects, SDP and EDI projects. Industry professionals conduce end-semester examinations 
• Sample assignment blogs and projects written by students:

  
  https://sites.google.com/view/software-engineering–/case-studies/group-26-the-scrumscrum-origins-what-is-scrum-scrum-origins-why-scrum?authuser=3
  
  https://github.com/RishikeshUnawane/Hate-speech-web-extension-model