Journal of Engineering Education Transformations

Abstract

Covid-19 pandemic forced academic Institutes to switch from 100% offline to 100% online delivery mode in very short amount of time. Most of academic Institutes were not ready for this change in terms of required faculty training. Also many Institutes lagged essential computing hardware, software, and Internet bandwidth support for effective implementation of ICT based education. Due to pressure from apex bodies like AICTE, peer Institutes, students and parents almost all academic Institutes started implementation of the online academic delivery in hurry. However, this unprepared start caused increased level of frustration among students and faculty community. Very soon a need of effective implementation of online academic delivery was recognized by the different Institutes. The paper presents how our Institute implemented and ensured effective implementation of online academic delivery using Innovative Practice League (IPL) competition. The paper explains methodology adopted by the Institute in details for improving quality of online academic delivery. The Institute undertook various initiatives at faculty-level, department-level, and Institutelevel for the same; the paper discusses the same in details. The paper also presents details of IPL competition and discusses how IPL helped to have awareness of quality issues related with online academic delivery.

Keywords— Covid-19; Pandemic; Online teaching learning; effective implementation; Online tools for activity-based learning; Active learning; Innovative Practice League (IPL).