ICT Enabled Tools at LSR for Effective Teaching and Learning
- This is clearly an era of digitization. Thus, the teachers of LSR have embraced the use of ICT tools to enhance the quality of the teaching-learning process.
- There has been an increased use of visual presentations. These are prepared by the faculty through programs like Microsoft Power Point, Google Slides and Canva. Several videos are also used to supplement teaching.
- Students are recommended different electronic data bases for academic work. For example, to conduct a Review of Literature, students are guided to use forums like Google Scholar that can locate articles through searches by keyword, author and title.
- Students are encouraged to use the e-resources available through N-List, which allows students to download articles directly from the publisher’s website once they are duly authenticated. N-List also provides access to E-books from leading publishers such as Springer, Sage and Cambridge.
- Data collection for some research-based practicums has shifted online. For example, students of the Psychology Department collect data from participants through Google forms and Skype interviews. They also IT tools like Excel and SPSS to organise and analyse quantitative data and infer conclusions pertaining to the research question.
- Students also use emails to clarify their queries and share information with their professors.
- In terms of the ICT tools on the campus, it may be noted that along with a 24×7 wi-fi facility, the classrooms in LSR have projectors and speakers to show films and documentaries.
- The College has well equipped computer Labs for the conduction of practical classes in offline mode. The labs are updated with software like Tally, R, Matlab, Microsoft Office.
