Pune: The Deccan Education Society’s (DES) Shri Navalmal Firodia Law College (SNFL) will be commencing its next academic year online for students of existing batches except for the freshers from May 21, announced the officials.
The virtual classroom for undergraduate and postgraduate courses including BALLB, BBA LLB, LLB and LLM will be held through MS Team application.
The college will follow a formula of ‘One hour-one teacher-one subject’. The college is expecting an 80 per cent response from students for online classes. At present, around 18-20 teachers will be conducting the lectures online, informed DES SNFL’s college development committee chairman Nitin Apte,
“Post-lockdown, about 80 per cent of students attended our online classes/lectures. After March 23, we waited for about a fortnight. However, when the lockdown continued, we had started conducting lectures online. So even now we are expecting a similar percentage of attendance of students across all batches,” said Apte.
“Generally, we can teach for three months maximum in each term, which isn’t sufficient. So this is a nice opportunity, as we don’t get an adequate amount of time to conduct lectures in detail. And, as it is students will be promoted without examination, then why waste time? These additional efforts that we are putting in will help us complete the syllabus with an insightful teaching-learning process,” he said.
Colleges under DES are getting prepared for online lectures for the students which can be achieved with the help of licensed copies of Microsoft purchased by DES for more than 33,000 students and all the teachers. It is obvious that we will go ahead as per the directives which we will receive from the state government, affiliating universities and University Grant Commission (UGC). But as a DES, we are preparing ourselves, stated the officials.
The other colleges under DES will soon follow the suit of a virtual classroom in the coming weeks, informed officials.
