In a first-of-its-kind collaboration to promote teaching excellence among Indian B-Schools, the Indian School of Business (ISB) and the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) have joined hands to impart training to doctoral candidates who are about to start their careers as faculty.
The ISB-IIMB Doctoral Consortium on Teaching is being led by Professors Arun Pereira, Executive Director of the Centre for Learning and Management (CLMP) at the ISB and Sourav Mukherji, Dean of Academic Programs at IIMB.
The Consortium had participation from doctoral candidates at ISB, IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Lucknow, IIM Indore, and IIM Kozhikode among others, IIMB said in a press release.
The participants were trained on effective teaching and classroom management, by using student-centred learning approaches to teaching.
“The ISB-IIMB association is unique in that it meets an increasingly urgent need to build capacity for India’s burgeoning management education sector,”
These comprised conducting effective case discussions, understanding the changing role of technology inside and outside the classroom, knowing the importance of student learning styles, how to engage with them better and what it takes to design a compelling learning experience for students.
Sharing his perspective on how the association between the two B schools can make a difference, Professor Arun Pereira of ISB said, “The ISB- IIMB Consortium is a fine example of how collaboration among Indian B-Schools can raise the bar for management education in India. If Indian B-schools are to grow in quality and global stature, it is critical that the quality of faculty and teaching standards are on par with the best in the world, and programs like this help to make that a reality.
“The ISB-IIMB association is unique in that it meets an increasingly urgent need to build capacity for India’s burgeoning management education sector,” he added.
Professor Sourav Mukherji, Dean of Academic Programmes at IIMB, and one of the lead faculty for the program said, “The ISB-IIMB Doctoral Consortium addresses a long-felt demand of the doctoral student community to provide key inputs towards honing teaching skills from the master teachers of ISB and IIM Bangalore.
“While several doctoral consortia have in the past focused on enhancing the much-needed research skills, the uniqueness of this program lies in its focus on teaching, which given the enormous shortage of high-quality business school faculty, caters to an important national agenda,” he added.
Now in its fourth year, the Consortium was for the first time organised jointly by the two B Schools, at the ISB’s Hyderabad campus. The program is targeted at final year FPM /Ph.D./Doctoral candidates to help them get a head start as they begin their careers. A unique component of the program is that each participant was required to teach and was provided substantive feedback, along with a recording of their teaching for review and reflection.
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Participants from the consortium shared their experiences of how the Consortium was helpful. Kaveri Krishnan, from IIMB, felt it was a ‘very valuable experience, especially for doctoral students with no prior teaching experience’, while Biswajita Parida, IIMA, said, the consortium was ‘an eye-opener to the state of the art technological tools, teaching methods, and styles of assessment evolving in the contemporary market.
The Doctoral Consortium was supported and funded by the International Schools of Business Management (ISBM). ISB Is a member of the ISBM — a group comprising of leading B Schools such as HEC Paris, IMD Lausanne, INSEAD Fontainebleau, Kellogg School of Management, NorthWestern University, London Business School, SDA Bocconi, Milan, Stern School of Business, New York University, Stockholm School of Economics, IAE Aix-Marseille Graduate School of Management, and China Europe International Business School (CEIBS).(Image Source:pixabay.com)
