Higher Education New Pathways in Teaching-Lea...

Higher Education New Pathways in Teaching-Learning Process and Governance

Author Name : Dr. Mahalakshmi.V, Dr. Govindappa.D

ABSTRACT

Higher Education plays a major role in building knowledge among current and next generation leaders and plays an important role in shaping the Nation’s economy. The impact of COVID-19 has put us in the process of thinking about where we are and where we want to get to. This situation has also made us to redesign the process and procedure of conduct of normal activities to fit ourselves into new situations and to sustain the normalcy in educational Institutions during similar situations arising in the future, institutions have redesigned process and procedures automatically and instantly but during pandemic, there has to be proper policy and procedure which are commonly observed to maintain sustainability in teaching-learning process.

Not only the present pandemic but, also there can be situations of natural disasters in future for which the Education system should be ready to face. The present situations are showing new dimensions and changes in the behavior and thinking of prospective admits.  Different ideas generation during this situation happened thus, the integration of these ideas without compromising on quality, safety, security and social wellbeing, regeneration of new pathways for Higher Education Sustainability in teaching-learning process could be possible. At the same time, every idea which are redesigned or regenerated should not be compromising on transparency, participation and accountability which are key to good Governance of Educational Institutions. Good governance of Educational Institutions means the policies, procedures followed are fair and favorable from the point of view of stakeholders of the Educational Institutions. Thus, this study explores different methodologies followed by Higher Education Institutions during the pandemic situation to conduct classes and sustaining good teaching- learning process, further to also identify varied process, procedures and determine which methodology are fairer to adopt as our future pathway to maintain Higher Education sustainability in teaching learning process. In this study an attempt is made to explore different techniques used in teaching-learning process by HEIs during similar situations.  There are many cloud-based systems created and adopted to impart education during situations of public disturbance and mainly lockdown, thus a safe and secure pathway should be created for all HEIs in-common following key elements of Governance. The system should be in favor of all stake holders of the institution thus attracting Governance from the beginning and also helpful in redesigning new pathways to achieve the goals. The conclusion is run after an attempt to create a course-management method developed to suit the situation.

Key words: Higher education, new pathways, good governance of educational institutions, teaching learning process.