04 Nov 2016-|Gurgaon (Manesar) | Amity University Gurgaon
Workshop on Prototyping Future education
A workshop on prototyping future education, organized by Amity school of liberal arts was conducted by a team of expert educationists from Russia. The workshop witnessed the participation of over 60 faculty members from different schools, as well as some enthusiastic students.
The workshop began with a welcome address by Prof. S.K. Jha, Director, ASLA who introduced the guests from Russia and spoke about the significance of the workshop. This was followed by an inaugural address by Prof. Padmakali Banerjee, Pro Vice Chancellor, AUH who spoke about the need for transcending beyond the traditional techniques of learning and moving towards a new teaching-learning approach.
During the first session of the workshop, Mr. Ivan Nineko, Representative, Global Education Future, made a presentation highlighting the salient features of Future Education model and its implementation in the existing educational framework. The second session of the workshop was a hands-on activity in which all the participants were engaged in group activity. Various new concepts were introduced during this activity and the participants were made to learn about future education based on the ‘learning through doing’ model. The participants shower great enthusiasm during the activity.
The Main objective of the workshop was sharing new pattern of education, Use of New technology in education, a new concept in the realm of education wherein the participants are taught to think beyond the paradigm of utopia and dystopia.